7:12 AM ET Jeremy WillisESPN.com The Los Angeles Dodgers winning the 2020 World Series over the Tampa Bay Rays didn’t make Mookie Betts a star. He has already been a league MVP and batting champion. He’s a four-time All-Star playing on a 12-year, $365 million contract. He has even won a championship before. But this

11:40 PM ET We can only hope 2021 will be a more normal season, with 162 games and fans in the stands and hot dogs to eat and overpriced beer to drink. We don’t know what the state of things will be come April 1, when the 2021 season is scheduled to begin, but we

11:38 PM ET ARLINGTON, Texas — The Kirk Gibson home run had endured, but it had also run its course. The clip remained a constant presence around the Los Angeles Dodgers, consuming their broadcasts and playing on a near-constant loop at their stadium. It stood as the seminal moment from a bygone era, of a

7:00 AM ET MLB InsidersESPN After all the oddities of the MLB regular season and postseason, the 2020 World Series pits baseball’s top two teams against each other. While we’ve grown accustomed to seeing the Dodgers playing for the championship, this is the first Fall Classic for the Rays since 2008 and only the second

7:57 PM ET Kelly CohenESPN Angelenos love their cars, they love their sports teams and they certainly love to get loud. To cheer for the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series, they are able to combine all three. It might not be 56,000 screaming fans inside Dodger Stadium, but in an ode to the

12:58 AM ET ESPN News Services The Los Angeles Dodgers will start Tony Gonsolin in Game 6 of the World Series on Tuesday as they look to capture their first championship since 1988. Game 2 winner Blake Snell was previously announced as the Tampa Bay Rays‘ Game 6 pitcher. Gonsolin gave up a first-inning homer

10:46 PM ET ARLINGTON, Texas — Say what you will about Clayton Kershaw‘s performance in October, but he now holds the record for postseason strikeouts. The Los Angeles Dodgers‘ ace moved past Justin Verlander for the all-time lead while giving up only two runs in 5⅔ innings against the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 5

3:27 AM ET ARLINGTON, Texas — The Tampa Bay Rays were the home team these last three nights. If not for their white pants, you might not have known it. Over the last three weeks, as they situated themselves inside a quasi-bubble in Texas’ metroplex, the Los Angeles Dodgers have commandeered Globe Life Field and

11:39 PM ET ARLINGTON, Texas — The theme late Saturday night and early Sunday afternoon — in the aftermath of a heart-wrenching, stomach-churning loss — was universal among the members of the Los Angeles Dodgers: They had to forget. They had to wipe away the memory of an improbable ninth-inning breakdown, bounce right back and

8:55 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” ARLINGTON, Texas — It happened just past midnight on the East Coast, 34 years to the day the last time a World Series game concluded like this. There are so many possible