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Dodgers return to Toronto with World Series memories put away

April 7, 2026

TORONTO — One hundred and fifty-five days after an epic World Series concluded with the Dodgers winning Games 6 and 7 in dramatic fashion, the Dodgers are back at Rogers Centre this week.

The memories must be thick as poutine gravy.

“I don’t think I had any,” pitcher Tyler Glasnow said when asked what World Series memories came to mind when he returned Monday. “It was just ‘April. Another series.’ I think that’s the way most guys are. It’s just such a long season. I think that’s more for fans and stuff.

“For us, you’re just in work mode. I know that’s a boring answer. It’s such a long season.”

Catcher Will Smith hit the game-winning home run in extra innings of Game 7, the first of its kind in World Series history. Surely returning to the scene of that historic moment stirred something in him Monday.

“Not really,” Smith said. “It’s a new day. That already happened.”

He might have thought about the World Series “walking by the cages where we celebrated,” he said when prompted – making it sound more like a question than an emotional statement.

When pressed, Glasnow said sitting at his locker reminded him of the feeling following Game 6, which he closed out on the mound.

Pitcher Ben Casparius found himself heading to the same locker he was assigned last fall when the Dodgers arrived Monday – even though he had been assigned a different locker (the one Clayton Kershaw occupied for his final days as a player).

Shortstop Mookie Betts did admit to feeling nostalgic walking back into Rogers Centre on Monday.

“When I come back here, I just think about when I was in Boston, when I was younger,” Betts said. “I remember walking in and watching movies with Big Papi (David Ortiz) and Hanley (Ramirez) and those guys before all this changed (the locker rooms have been renovated in recent years). And so those are the kind of memories that kind of come back.”

But what about the epic World Series you played here just five months ago?

“Of course there’s that, but that’s not the first thing,” Betts said. “The first thing is being a 21-, 22-year-old-kid watching movies with Hanley and Big Papi and Pablo (Sandoval) and those guys. The fries here (made by the cook in the visiting clubhouse). Those are the memories that come back.”

No one left more of a mark on the 2025 World Series than Yoshinobu Yamamoto. He became only the 14th player in baseball history to win three games in a single World Series, pitched in both Games 6 and 7 in Toronto and was named the World Series MVP.

“It’s a little bit nostalgic or sentimental because we haven’t been back since that day,” he said through his interpreter. “But now I’m trying to focus on tomorrow’s outing.”

Blake Treinen couldn’t help but make the comparison between the stakes last October (spilling over into November) and this early April series. He said he was laughing on the way to the stadium Monday, saying, “This is a lot less stressful.”

“It’s not any one memory. It’s just everything that happened here,” he said of the memories that stood out from last year. “It’s like if you played that World Series out a hundred times, the Blue Jays would probably win 99 times. Everything just worked out for us. All the things just went right.”

Orange County Register

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