TORONTO -- The Dodgers never expected this to be easy.

The prior 24 World Series champions could have told them: No matter the talent you have, no matter how favorable the situation, repeating as champion is a tall task. Knowing that, the Dodgers set out to do everything in their power to position themselves for a run at another title.

Talented but flawed, deep but limited at times, the Dodgers did not dominate the regular season the way the baseball world imagined they would. But they were able to put it all together when the games meant the most, and now they are champions again.

"When you put on this uniform, you're expected to win," Freddie Freeman said. "To do it like we did in [back-to-back seasons], when everyone in Spring Training was expecting us to win -- that's really hard to

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