by Mark Langill
Tommy Edman looked like a kid on Christmas morning last weekend at Dodger Stadium, slowly navigating his new scooter in the spacious Centerfield Plaza.
Edman bent his right leg along the cart base — placing his knee near the steering column — and wheeled around, occasionally pushing off the smooth white concrete surface with his left foot.
His regular work clothes were nowhere to be seen.
Instead, the 30-year-old Edman picked the perfect outfit to shave a few years off his already youthful appearance — a backward ballcap, shorts and a T-shirt.
As a line of fans gathered to enter the Gold Glove Bar, few realized the lone figure in the distance, cruising under the noontime sun, would be the guest of honor at their luncheon.
Minutes later, Edman made his grand entrance, wheeling his scooter to the front of the stage. The crowd cheered with delight. Edman settled into one of two director’s chairs.
In that moment, fans noticed another accessory to the player’s wardrobe, a walking boot, following recent surgery on his right ankle. Edman told the crowd that he expects to be healed by Spring Training.
For the next half hour, Edman sat back and relaxed. His postseason stories played off his unique surroundings, a cozy space under the Left Field Pavilion with a series of tables and barstools.
There was a Christmas tree in the corner, its twinkling lights blending with neon-sign artwork on the wall. A few feet away, a table draped with an elegant black cloth had only one ornament.
The 2025 World Series trophy.
The collective eighty-plus patrons in the crowd, most donning their Dodger gear and eagerly ready to relive Game 7 of the Fall Classic, somehow already had their holiday wish list filled nearly six weeks ago on Nov. 1 when the Dodgers won their ninth World Series title.
“It’s been a really good month to sit back and reflect on all that we accomplished this past year,” Edman said. “It’s so hard to win a World Series, even if you have the best team in baseball.”
After sweeping the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League Championship Series, the Dodgers were on the ropes against the Blue Jays, looking for their first championship since 1993.
The Dodgers split the first two games in Toronto and managed a victory in 18 innings in Game 3 on Freddie Freeman’s walk-off home run.
But losses in Games 4 and 5 meant returning to Canada needing two victories. In their history, the Dodgers had never overcome a 3–2 series deficit to win a championship.
“You just have to get hot at the right time, and we ran into a really hot team in the Blue Jays,” Edman said. “They are such a good team, and it was a hard-fought series. I still have no idea how we won games 6 and 7 in Toronto.”
In Game 7, the Dodgers trailed 4–3 entering the ninth inning. With one out and Shohei Ohtani looming in the on-deck circle, №9 hitter Miguel Rojas delivered a home run off Toronto closer Jeff Hoffman.
“A couple innings before, we were all hoping for a game-tying home run off the bat of Shohei,” Edman said. “Little did we know it was going to be Miggy Ro.”
Edman, who started Game 7 in center field, was taken out of the game during Toronto’s ninth-inning rally. His replacement, Andy Pages, made a circus catch on Ernie Clement’s drive with two outs and the bases loaded to preserve the tie. Pages held onto the ball after colliding with left fielder Kiké Hernández.
From the comfort of his director’s chair on Sunday, Edman assured the fans it would’ve been the same result had he still been in the game — the greatest catch that he never had to make.
A double-play grounder off the bat of Toronto’s Alejandro Kirk ended the Dodgers’ 5–4 victory in 11 innings, triggering initial on-field confusion.
“I think the coolest thing about the end of the game was watching Dave Roberts coming out of the dugout with his hands over his head. He has no idea what has just happened.”
Edman, now a veteran of 47 postseason games with the Cardinals and Dodgers, said he slept fine the night before Game 7 and had no trouble focusing on the task at hand for the first eight innings.
Until he was a spectator in the dugout.
“When you’re in the game, your adrenaline is just firing on all cylinders,” he said. “Your energy is completely focused on, ’OK, what’s my job?’
“You don’t really think about the scope of the game. Once I came out of the game, I’m thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, if this guy scores, we lose the World Series.’ So, my nerves are suddenly going through the roof.”
Edman said the finality of the World Series didn’t hit him until the confetti started flying at Rogers Centre during the trophy presentation.
Then it really hit him two days later when the Dodgers staged another World Series parade through downtown Los Angeles, followed by a party and rally at Dodger Stadium.
“It basically feels like someone hit a walk-off home run, and people are celebrating for an hour and a half straight,” Edman said. “Everyone’s standing on their feet and screaming at the top of their lungs. It looks like the entire City of Los Angeles is part of the crowd. All the players are getting fired up. That’s the best day of the year.”
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