2025 Los Angeles Dodgers season
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The 2025 Los Angeles Dodgers season was the 136th season for the Los Angeles Dodgers franchise in Major League Baseball (MLB), their 68th season in Los Angeles, California, and their 64th season playing their home games at Dodger Stadium. They entered the season as the defending World Series champions after winning their eighth World Series title in franchise history, and finished the season by successfully defending their title for the first time in franchise history, winning their ninth title in the 2025 World Series over the Toronto Blue Jays, 4–3. For the second year in a row, the Dodgers began the season outside of America, this time in Tokyo, Japan for the Tokyo Series. They became the first defending World Series champion to begin their season 8–0, besting the previous record held by the 1933 Yankees, who started their season 7–0. The Dodgers clinched their 13th straight post-season appearance on September 19, extending the longest streak in franchise history. On September 25, they clinched the National League West title for the fourth straight season and 12th time the last 13 years. On September 18, 3-time Cy Young winner and former MVP Clayton Kershaw announced his retirement at the conclusion of the season. The team passed 4 million in home attendance for the first time in franchise history. As the third seed, the Dodgers opened the playoffs in the Wild Card Series against the sixth seed, Cincinnati Reds. They swept the Reds in two games to advance to the NLDS. They then defeated the Philadelphia Phillies in four games and advanced to the National League Championship Series for the second year in a row. They swept the Milwaukee Brewers in four games to win their second straight NLCS and the fifth in nine years (2017–2018, 2020, 2024–2025), in a series defined by their starting pitching dominance. They defeated the Blue Jays in the World Series in seven games to become the first franchise to repeat as World Series champions since the 1998–2000 New York Yankees. The Dodgers were just the ninth team to win Games 6 and 7 on the road in a World Series. In Game 7, they were the first team in MLB history to stage a comeback on the road in the ninth inning of a winner-take-all World Series game, ultimately winning in 11 innings by a score of 5-4. Unlike the previous season, the Dodgers did not hold home-advantage for any of the last three rounds.