How LeBron James, Billie Jean King and other sports icons reacted to an epic World Series Game 7

The Los Angeles Dodgers are World Series champions for the second consecutive year, and the sports world can’t stop talking about it. In one of the most dramatic Fall Classics in baseball history, the Dodgers edged out the Toronto Blue Jays in 11 innings for a 5-4 win in Game 7.

The championship is the ninth in Dodgers history, and the franchise’s third since 2020.

Game 7 was a roller coaster from start to finish. Toronto’s Bo Bichette lit up the Rogers Centre early, blasting a three-run homer off Shohei Ohtani in the third inning. For a moment, it looked like the Blue Jays would claim their first title since 1993. But Los Angeles chipped away at Toronto’s lead, and by the top of the ninth, the Dodgers trailed 4-3. Then, Miguel Rojas, who has hit just 57 home runs in his career, sent the game into extra innings with a solo blast into the left-field stands against Toronto reliever Jeff Hoffman.

In the top of the 11th, Will Smith delivered the dagger. His solo homer silenced the Toronto home crowd and put the Dodgers ahead 5–4. That one-run margin was all World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto needed to close out the game in the bottom of the inning.

Smith’s go-ahead shot electrified the sports world. Among those in disbelief was LeBron James, who posted on X, “CONGRATULATIONS @Dodgers !!!!” His Lakers’ teammate Luka Dončić echoed the sentiment: “What a game!! Wow, congrats.”

The reactions poured in throughout Saturday night and into Sunday morning. New York Knicks guard Jordan Clarkson wrote, “best world series game i have watched.” Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid simply declared, “GAME OVER!!! Yamamoto,” adding three goat emojis for emphasis.

Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark summed up what many fans were thinking: “This is the best baseball game I’ve ever seen.”

CC Sabathia, a 19-year MLB veteran and 2025 first-ballot Hall of Famer, offered his admiration: “Yamamoto is 100% the World Series MVP,” he shared on X. “What an unbelievable performance.”

In another post, Sabathia added, “That was everything you could ask for from a World Series. Incredible talent, pitching, fielding, clutch hitting, timely adjustments … shout out to the Dodgers and Blue Jays for putting on a show. Salute to Dave Roberts and all the guys.”

Former Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain kept it simple: “THIS IS AMAZING. I LOVE BASEBALL!!!!!”

Beyond baseball, sports icons were swept up in the moment. Tennis legend Billie Jean King called Saturday’s contest “The best game of baseball I have ever seen.” She is a minority owner of the Dodgers.

From the NFL sidelines, former Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt could hardly believe what he’d witnessed. “You could not script the insanity of this game,” he wrote on X. “This series. The stuff that’s happened, in the situations they’ve happened in. Just unbelievable.”

The Dodgers-Blue Jays World Series captivated average fans and all-time great athletes alike. From Los Angeles to Toronto and across every league, the sports world swooned over a Game 7 that delivered drama and awe like only playoff baseball can.

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