Hundreds of thousands of Los Angeles Dodgers fans turned the city into a sea of blue of Monday as the California metropolis saluted the baseball giants' back-to-back World Series titles.

A blizzard of blue confetti enveloped a motorcade of open-top buses ferrying players on a slow crawl through downtown Los Angeles, two days after the team's epic World Series win over the Toronto Blue Jays.

Huge throngs of fans who had begun taking up positions before dawn lined the route, with city officials saying they expected the crowd size to eclipse last year's victory parade, when more than 200,000 fans turned out to acclaim the team.

The Dodgers became the first side in 25 years to win back-to-back Major League Baseball championships on Saturday when they defeated the Blue Jays 5-4 in a thrillin

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