The next stop on the LA Dodgers’ victory tour? Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Fresh off their second straight World Series championship win, “a bunch of Dodgers” are set to visit Jimmy Kimmel tonight. The booking comes just three days after the team defeated the Toronto Blue Jays in a seven-game series, and a day after their celebratory hometown parade and rally in Los Angeles.
Kimmel announced the appearance on Monday’s show, teasing a lineup that includes players Will Smith, Enrique Hernández, Tyler Glasnow, and Blake Snell.
The team closed out the series on November 1 in Toronto, eking out an extra-innings 5–4 win over the Blue Jays to claim the championship. The matchup made waves beyond Toronto and LA, with several thrilling close games contributing to record viewership. (Game 7 drew the highest rating for a World Series game in eight years.) Along the way, the Dodgers prevailed in a historic Game 3, tying the MLB record for longest postseason game with a grueling 18 innings.
But the Dodgers’ win is also a meaningful hometown affair, seen by many locals as a welcome respite in a year marked by everything from catastrophic wildfires to controversial immigration raids. While Fox carried the World Series, Jimmy Kimmel Live! is the only network late-night show that tapes in Los Angeles—making it the Dodgers’ de facto hometown show.
It’s not Kimmel’s first celebratory Dodgers booking. Exactly a year ago, the host welcomed Dodgers first baseman and World Series MVP Freddie Freeman to the show five days after their 2024 championship win. In 2014, the team’s then-manager, Tommy Lasorda, appeared on JKL to surprise a local hero with a Dodgers jersey, tickets, and the honor of throwing out a first pitch.
Despite his ongoing connection to LA’s team, Kimmel is a Mets fan at heart. “The Dodgers broke my heart many years ago,” Kimmel told The Hollywood Reporter in 2015, citing the team’s decision to give up Mike Piazza and Steve Garvey back in 1983. “I haven’t forgiven them entirely.”
Dammit, it hurts. Should have been my Blue Jays.