Every Way Shohei Ohtani, Dodgers, Blue Jays Made History in 2025 MLB World Series

A record payroll isn't the only reason the Los Angeles Dodgers' run to the 2025 World Series will go down in baseball history.

Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers broke a variety of MLB records on their way to clinching a championship with Saturday night's 5-4 extra-inning win over the Toronto Blue Jays.

Here's a look at some of the historic moments from both the Dodgers and Blue Jays during the 2025 World Series, courtesy of OptaStats.

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Oct. 24: Game 1 (Dodgers 4, Blue Jays 11)

The Dodgers entered the World Series on a five-game win streak after closing out the NLDS with a Game 4 win against the Philadelphia Phillies, then sweeping the Milwaukee Brewers out of the NLCS.

Los Angeles allowed just 18 hits and five runs over that span, making them the first MLB team to hold teams below 20 hits while allowing five or fewer runs in a five-game postseason span.

The Dodgers ended up on the wrong side of MLB history, however, after a blowout Game 1 of the Fall Classic.

The Blue Jays racked up nine runs in the sixth inning, marking the highest single-inning total ever recorded against an opponent that had allowed one run or fewer in each of its five prior games.

That frame was highlighted by Addison Barger hitting the first pinch-hit home run in World Series history.

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Oct. 25: Game 2 (Dodgers 5, Blue Jays 1)

Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Kevin Gausman faced off in what turned into a pitching battle during Game 2 in Toronto.

Yamamoto ultimately stayed on the mound to pitch the MLB's first complete World Series game since 2015. He allowed just four hits and one run, at one point retiring 20 straight Dodgers batters.

Gausman made it through 6.2 innings before he exited a game highlighted by his forcing the Blue Jays into 17 straight outs.

The game marked the first time in MLB postseason history two opposing starting pitchers each retired at least 14 straight batters in the same game.

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Oct. 27: Game 3 (Blue Jays 5, Dodgers 6, F/18)

Ohtani finished the NLCS having earned an MLB-record 12 total bases in consecutive games, thanks to five home runs and two doubles in the final two games of the Dodgers' sweep of the Brewers.

The two-way star made more history after returning to Dodger Stadium for Game 3 of the World Series.

That outing made Ohtani the first player in MLB postseason or regular-season history to record four hits and five walks in the same game.

Ohtani also became the first player in postseason or regular-season history to record 12 bases, nine times on base, four extra-base hits and four intentional walks in a two-game span.

In the top of the 12th, Clayton Kershaw became the first pitcher to close out his MLB career by getting out of a bases-loaded jam in extra innings.

It was Freddie Freeman who ended up with the most memorable historic moment in what eventually tied for the longest ever World Series game.

His 18th-inning home run sealed the Dodgers' a walk-off victory and made him a postseason hero for the second year in a row.

Freeman previously ended Game 1 of last year's Fall Classic with the first walk-off grand slam in World Series history.

His latest walk-off World Series winner made him the first player, either in the regular season or postseason, to hit both a walk-off grand slam on a final out and a walk-off home run after 17 innings.

Freeman also became the first player since Lou Gehrig to record seven home runs and 17 runs in a span of 10 World Series games.

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Oct. 28: Game 4 (Blue Jays 6, Dodgers 2)

The Dodgers took an early lead in Game 4 before Vladimir Guerrero Jr. put the Blue Jays ahead with a go-ahead homer off Ohtani in the third inning.

That marked the fourth time this postseason a home run had given the trailing Blue Jays the lead, the most come-from-behind homers from any club in a single MLB postseason.

Shane Bieber, who allowed four hits and one run through 5.1 innings, meanwhile became the first pitcher to earn a World Series win after spending at least the first four months of a season on the injured list.

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Oct. 29: Game 5 (Blue Jays 6, Dodgers 1)

Rookie pitcher Trey Yesavage struck out 12 batters while making it through seven innings in his World Series debut.

He is the first pitcher to hit that strikeout count in a World Series game without allowing a single walk.

Davis Schneider and Guerrero meanwhile started out Game 5 with the first back-to-back leadoff homers in World Series history.

The home run also allowed Guerrero to join Barry Bonds as the only players to hit at least two homes and reach base 14 times through their first five World Series game.

The Dodgers lost control in the top of the seventh inning, when Blake Snell and Edgardo Hernandez combined for three wild pitches.

That set a record for the most in a single World Series inning. Anthony Banda threw another wild pitch in the eighth to set another World Series record for the most in a single games.

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Oct. 31: Game 6 (Dodgers 3, Blue Jays 1)

Gausman held the Dodgers to three runs on three hits, but the Blue Jays were unable to find enough offense to clinch the championship.

The loss made Gausman the first pitcher to throw at least five innings in four straight postseason losses while holding opponents to three or fewer runs in each game.

Yamamoto meanwhile turned in another dominant performance after holding the Blue Jays to just one run on five hits and striking out six batters in six innings.

Dodgers closer Tyler Glasnow also made history as the first closer to record a save while facing just two batters with no outs, no one on first and two runners already in scoring position with a tying run on base.

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Nov. 1: Game 7 (Dodgers 5, Blue Jays 4, F/11)

Bo Bichette put the Blue Jays ahead early in Game 7 with a three-run home run off Ohtani that made him the first player to hit a World Series home run off a former MVP.

Andrés Giménez helped extend Toronto's lead with an RBI double in the sixth inning that made him the first player in MLB history to drive in at least 12 runs while spending the postseason eighth or lower in the batting order.

The Blue Jays held that lead all the way until the ninth, when Miguel Rojas became the first player in World Series history to hit a Game 7-tying home run in the ninth inning or later.

In the 11th frame, Will Smith became the first player to hit a home run in World Series extra innings.

Yamamoto then returned to the mound to close out the win and become the first pitcher to win Games 6 and 7 of a World Series on the road.

The Dodgers' championship-clinching victory made them the first team to come back from a ninth-inning deficit while on the road for a World Series Game 7.

Ohtani and Guerrero meanwhile finished the series as the first two players in MLB history to reach 12 expected base hits, 12 walks and eight home runs in a single postseason.