So many things happened in Game 7 of the World Series, even just from the ninth inning and beyond, that it was hard to fully capture everything.
“It wasn’t easy, it wasn’t pretty,” Kiké Hernández said during the postgame celebration on Saturday. “But we did the damn thing.”
Here are some leftover notes, facts, and stats that I didn’t have a spot for until now.
In a complete 180 from the 2024 championship run, the Dodgers were so full of starting pitchers that extra starters were used in relief this October. Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Blake Snell, Tyler Glasnow, and Shohei Ohtani made all 17 starts during the postseason and accounted for 68.4 percent of the Dodgers’ innings. That quartet combined for a 2.55 ERA with 127 strikeouts in 113 innings.
Yamamoto famously got the final eight outs of G

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