Mookie Betts snared the ball, danced toward second base, stepped on the bag, and threw a cross-body strike to first. With that, the 2025 baseball season came to an end. Unofficially, however, Betts’s beautiful, balletic double play closed the book on a World Series Game 7 destined to live forever.

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.

The Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays' classic Game 7 matchup resulted in a massive spike in viewership on Saturday night, FOX Sports said.

Nielsen fast-nationals revealed that 25.45 million viewers tuned into Fox for the decisive World Series game, leading to a total average of 25.98 million across all of Fox Sports’ platforms, marking the largest audience for MLB since the Astros-Dodgers Game 7 in 2017. That series brought in 28.24 million people.

For Game 7 of the World Series, there will be two singers for the national anthems. Pia Toscano will perform the U.S. national anthem, while Noah Reid will sing the Canadian national anthem, baseball reporter Jessica Kleinschmidt. Game 7 of the 2025 World Series is set to begin on Saturday, November 1 at 8 p.m. ET on Fox.

What a game. What a World Series. What a season. The 2,477th game of the 2025 season, including playoffs -- five more than any other year in history -- delivered a classic.

Both of these late-inning homers landed in almost the same spot and were caught by two Blue Jays fans who just happened to be a father-son duo.