Los Angeles Dodgers two-way player Shohei Ohtani (17) reacts after striking out in the first inning for game six of the 2025 MLB World Series at Rogers Centre. Nick Turchiaro-Imagn Images

TORONTO — Fissures are showing in the $400 million Dodgers . Actually, it’s more than fissures, more like cracks, Southern Cal earthquake-style cracks.

Baseball’s superteam was still in this World Series thanks to superhuman performances from Yoshinobu Yamamoto in Game 2 and Shohei Ohtani in Game 3, but concerns were growing heading into Game 6. It’ll take a significant turnaround for the Dodgers to become the first repeat World Series champion since the 2000 Yankees, a full generation ago.

All or most of these things will need to get better for LA to pull off the repeat.

1.) The hitting. The grea

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