LOS ANGELES — For many years, the World Series room at the Baseball Hall of Fame had a life-sized cardboard cutout of Sandy Koufax in triumph. The great Dodger lefty was beaming, leaping off a mound with his arms thrust to the sky. Visitors could crowd around it and pretend they were part of the 1963 championship celebration.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers gave up more runs to the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday than they did in their tidy sweep of the New York Yankees that October. The Blue Jays solved Shohei Ohtani, on the mound and at the plate, in a 6-2 victory in Game 4 at Dodger Stadium that evened the World Series, two apiece.
In doing so, the Blue Jays made certain that the final game of the 2025 season will take place in Toronto, not here. While seven road teams have clinched a World Series in the Dodgers’ home park, the Dodgers themselves have done it only once. Koufax’s Hollywood finish remains a singular moment in Dodgers history, forever out of reach of actual re-creation.
To players, it doesn’t really matter where they clinch a championship.
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