Fifty years ago, after the histrionic sixth game of the World Series at Fenway Park, Peter Gammons wrote perhaps the most lyrical prose ever penned about a baseball game. His lead, in the Boston Globe, included a phrase that feels fitting in the aftermath of the breathless 2025 World Series: the wearing off of the numbness.
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For those of us privileged to be at Rogers Centre in Toronto on Saturday, and surely to many of the millions who watched from afar, the numbness from Game 7 has not worn off. Someday it might, but not yet. There is still so much to comprehend.
The Los Angeles Dodgers are champions again, with a scrapbook of madness to be told and retold for generations in Southern California. The Toronto Blue Jays, absent for decades from the party, will long rue the agonizing finale. Woe, Canada.
What made it so compelling was not a standout moment or singular performance but a confluence of chaos, expertly chronicled here by The Athletic’s Jayson Stark. There were so many plausible possibilities that could have turned the outcome, so many ways to imagine what might have happened – if only.
The seventh game, a 5-4 decision in 11 outrageous innings, had more layers than a crossing guard in a harsh Ontario winter.
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