Will Smith caught more innings than any other catcher in a single World Series, and his 11th-inning home run gave the Dodgers their first lead of Game 7, and clinched a second straight championship with a 5-4 win over the Blue Jays on Saturday night and into Sunday morning at Rogers Centre in Toronto.

Seven different pitchers who started games in this World Series were used in a do-or-die Game 7, including Game 4 starter Shane Bieber, who allowed the go-ahead home run to Smith with two outs in the 11th.

Smith caught all 73 innings of the 2025 World Series, two more than Lou Criger caught for the Boston Americans (later, the Red Sox) in the 1903 Fall Classic.

That made a winner out of Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who you might remember from such starts as Game 6 one night earlier. After throwing

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