Shohei Ohtani is scoring a home run again with Major League Baseball fans.

Mookie Betts snared the ball, danced toward second base, stepped on the bag, and threw a cross-body strike to first. With that, the 2025 baseball season came to an end. Unofficially, however, Betts’s beautiful, balletic double play closed the book on a World Series Game 7 destined to live forever.

Los Angeles Dodgers' Freddie Freeman, right, and his teammates celebrate their win in Game 7 of baseball's World Series as Toronto Blue Jays' Alejandro Kirk, left, is out at first, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025, in Toronto. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis) AP

Sunday morning in Japan began with a palpable buzz after the Los Angeles Dodgers announced Shohei Ohtani would start Game 7 of the World Series.

The World Series has given baseball fans from all walks of life memories for life. From Bill Mazeroski’s walk-off home run in 1960, the catch by Willie Mays in 1954, Luis Gonzalez’s walk-off against Mariano Rivera to thwart the New York Yankees’ chances of winning four straight championships in 2001,

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Before the 2025 Dodgers came along, it had been a quarter century since a team won consecutive World Series titles. Over that same span, the NFL saw two teams win two Super Bowls in a row, and four teams won at least two NBA Finals in a row.