It all comes full circle for the Los Angeles Dodgers, favorites from Opening Day to win it all, now back to defend their 2024 championship.
There are plenty of storylines in their World Series matchup with the Toronto Blue Jays. It's the first time the Jays have hosted a World Series north of the border since 1993, when Jurassic Park ruled the box office and The Fugitive was in every VHS player.
There's another subplot here, too: the heat. Games 1 and 2 open in Toronto under cool weather, with highs in the low 50s. Then the action shifts west, where Los Angeles is forecast to sizzle in the 80s and possibly even 90s during the final days of October.
Add in an offshore flow and Santa Ana wind component here, too, and the series will be one of the stranger climate contrasts in recent memory. Los Angeles, one of the few places in the Northern Hemisphere where it can be warmer in late October and early November than in May.
Before the first pitch is thrown, records are threatened (looking at you, Ohtani) and a champion is crowned, here's a look back at some of the hottest World Series games ever played.
