TORONTO — Their starting pitcher (Yoshinobu Yamamoto) had an Orel Hershiser moment. Their starting catcher (Will Smith) had a Roy Campanella moment. And their team — baseball’s reigning champs, the Dodgers — had another evening like so many we’ve seen over the last two Octobers.

The scoreboard told one story Saturday night: Dodgers 5, Blue Jays 1, in Game 2 of the 2025 World Series. But here at the World Series offices of the Weird and Wild column, we’d like to tell another story. A bigger-picture kind of story. Because that big picture is so clearly within sight now.

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Let’s do that math. It’s now one win down — and three wins to go. But in the case of this group of Dodgers, one plus three does not just equal four. Not right now. Because this isn’t Mrs. McGillicuddy’s first-grade arithmetic class. This is the World Series.

So for this Dodgers team, at this particular moment in baseball time, one plus three would equal history.

It is the rare kind of history only teams that win back-to-back World Series can make. And after their Series-evening Game 2 win, these Dodgers are close enough to taste it.

They’re just not quite close enough to fully comprehend it.

“Just to win once is hard,” their first baseman, Freddie Freeman, said. “So now to be this close to being able to do it two times in a row, I don’t know if I’ve really grasped the weight of it. That’s just because we’re so in it and just trying to win, and not really thinking about history and all that kind of stuff.

“But I think when you do take a step back,” Freeman said, “and realize the opportunity that’s here and presented to us, it’s pretty cool.”

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