Dodgers fans take to streets to celebrate back-to-back World Series win

LOS ANGELES – Cheers erupted all over Los Angeles Saturday night as the Dodgers clinched back-to-back World Series victory.

There were crowds at bars and watch areas around LA Live, and they spilled onto the streets after the final Blue Jays out in Toronto in the 11th inning sealed the win.

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The Los Angeles Police Department went on Tactical Alert about 6 p.m. Saturday in preparation for the celebrations that might ensue and shut down streets in the area in hopes of keeping crowds under control.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ Will Smith (16) celebrates after hitting a solo home run against the Toronto Blue Jays during the 11th inning in Game 7 of baseball’s World Series against the Toronto Blue Jays in Toronto on Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)

LA Metro detoured buses around the LA Live area and ride share vehicles that have been targets of vandals in the past were kept away.

When the crowds grew, the LAPD issued dispersal orders at Chick Hearn Court and 11th Street, and at Sunset Boulevard and Echo Park Avenue, telling people to leave or be subject to arrest.

ABC7 broadcast celebrations on Van Nuys Boulevard in Pacoima where fans lit fireworks and drove donuts in the street. Fireworks were also set off downtown, in Echo Park, in Little Tokyo and East Los Angeles.

Will Smith homered in the top of the 11th inning as the Dodgers completed their first successful defense of a World Series championship with a 5-4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 7 Saturday night in Toronto.

The Dodgers had tied the score with one out in the top of the ninth on a home run by their No. 9 hitter, Miguel Rojas, after trailing 3-0 on Bo Bichette’s third-inning home run off Shohei Ohtani.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto (5-1) pitched the final 2 2/3 innings for the victory, one day after he pitched six innings in the Dodgers’ 3-1 victory in Game 6. Yamamoto pitched out of a bases-loaded one-out jam in the bottom of the ninth.

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It was the third time the Dodgers had returned to the World Series after winning the title the previous season. They lost to the New York Yankees in seven games in 1956 and were swept by the Baltimore Orioles in 1966.

This was the seventh time the Dodgers have played in a World Series Game 7. Their other wins came in 1955 over the New York Yankees for their only championship in Brooklyn, and in 1965 over the Minnesota Twins. (CNS)

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