Clayton Kershaw ended his illustrious 18-year career unaware initially that he'd just won the World Series again.

A dynasty has to be earned, and the Los Angeles Dodgers earned it Saturday night in a Game 7 for the ages. They didn’t have a lead until past midnight in the 11th inning, but they held on to beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 to clinch their second consecutive championship and bring an epic World Series to a fitting and monumental conclusion.

Once down to their last two outs of the series, the Los Angeles Dodgers rode a game-tying home run in the ninth inning from Miguel Rojas and a game-winning home run from Smith in the 11th to become MLB's first back-to-back champions since the New York Yankees in 2000.

The Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays face off in Saturday's winner-take-all game. Here are the results of every World Series Game 7.

And just like that, the two sweetest words in the English language: Game 7. I shouldn’t need to say much more than that to hype you up. Will the Dodgers win their second title in a row? Or will the Blue Jays win their first in 32 years?

Instead of getting a World Series-winning, three-run homer like the one Joe Carter hit off Philadelphia’s Mitch Williams to capture the title in Game 6 in 1993, the Blue Jays were pushed to Game 7 and the Dodgers kept alive their chance to become the first repeat champion since the 1998-2000 New York Yankees.

Before Shohei Ohtani took the mound for his first World Series start, his teammates offered a reminder that he’s human after all.

The most likely winner is still very unlikely to win the World Series. We all know that. I just pointed out the Dodgers were the favorites heading into each of the last nine seaso