The Los Angeles Dodgers winning their second World Series title since 2020 meant a lot to the players, the city and fans who waited years to truly celebrate.
When the Dodgers ended the franchise’s championship drought in 2020, they were led in large part by Corey Seager. He went on a tremendous October run that earned him MVP honors in the National League Championship Series and World Series.
Unfortunately for Seager and the 2020 Dodgers, a pandemic prevented them from truly being able to celebrate like champions. Since leaving the Dodgers for the Texas Rangers, Seager won a World Series title in 2023, again earning MVP honors but getting to enjoy the full treatment of being a champion.
That also came for the 2024 Dodgers, many of whom Seager played with during his time in Los Angeles.
When Seager spoke with David Vassegh of AM 570 L.A. Sports, he expressed his joy for his former teammates reaching the pinnacle and getting to celebrate with a World Series parade:
“I was excited for all those guys over there, I was excited for the city. Not having the parade in 2020, they deserved that. So it was really cool to see it. It was awesome to kind of live through them. It was a cool moment for them.”
Seager led the Rangers to a title of their own over the Arizona Diamondbacks, turning down a Dodgers divisional opponent from having their own moment. The Dodgers looked on as one of their own former farmhands defeated the same team that knocked them out in the NL Division Series round in 2023.
The Dodgers and Seager went through two previous trips to the World Series before capturing their own, being cheated out of a title in 2017 to the Houston Astros, and losing to the Boston Red Sox the following year.
Corey Seager postseason dominance
In 78 career postseason games, Seager has batted .254/.350/.508 with 17 doubles, one triple, 19 home runs, 48 RBI and 55 runs scored.
He’s currently tied for sixth on the all-time leaderboards in playoff homers, and his eight long balls in the 2020 postseason are tied for second-most in a single playoff run.
Seager’s home run against the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 3 had an exit velocity of 114.5 mph, making it the hardest-hit World Series home run.
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