The 2025 World Series is here. The Los Angeles Dodgers will attempt to defend their championship against the Toronto Blue Jays beginning Friday, Oct. 24, and the anticipation is palpable for this best-of-seven matchup.
It’s Shohei Ohtani and the powerful pitching of the Dodgers, coming off a four-game sweep of the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League Championship Series, against the big bats of the Blue Jays, most notably Vladimir Guerrero, Jr.
It’s shaping up to be a memorable Fall Classic, and perhaps that could include some more extra-innings games. The rules are different in the MLB postseason than the regular season these days when it comes to games that are tied after nine innings.
Here’s a breakdown of MLB’s extra innings rules for the 2025 World Series:
World Series extra innings rules explained
In 2023, MLB permanently instituted a regular-season rule in which, if a game goes to extra innings, both teams start each extra inning with a runner on second base beginning with the top of the 10th. During MLB postseason games, however, the rules revert back to normal for extra innings.
If the Dodgers and Blue Jays were to play extra innings in a game during the World Series, each inning would start with the bases empty.
World Series schedule: TV, streaming for 2025 Fall Classic
Every game of the 2025 World Series will be broadcast nationally on FOX and be live streamed with Fubo. Here’s a look at the full Fall Classic schedule for the Blue Jays and Dodgers:
All times Eastern
Game 1: Dodgers at Blue Jays, 8 p.m. on Oct. 24 (FOX, Fubo)
Game 2: Dodgers at Blue Jays, 8 p.m. on Oct. 25 (FOX, Fubo)
Game 3: Blue Jays at Dodgers, 8 p.m. on Oct. 27 (FOX, Fubo)
Game 4: Blue Jays at Dodgers, 8 p.m. on Oct. 28 (FOX, Fubo)
Game 5: Blue Jays at Dodgers, 8 p.m. on Oct. 29 (FOX, Fubo)*
Game 6: Dodgers at Blue Jays, 8 p.m. on Oct. 31 (FOX, Fubo)*
Game 7: Dodgers at Blue Jays, 8 p.m. on Nov. 1 (FOX, Fubo)*
*if necessary