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Dodgers’ Smith Keeps Name Streak Going for World Series Winning Team

Since the 2020 World Series there has been a Will Smith on every championship team. Each Will Smith, the catcher and the pitcher, has three rings.
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Dodgers’ Smith Keeps Name Streak Going for World Series Winning Team
Will Smith of the Los Angeles Dodgers celebrates after hitting a home run during the eleventh inning against the Toronto Blue Jays in game seven of the 2025 World Series at Rogers Center in Toronto, Ontario, on Nov. 2, 2025. Emilee Chinn/Getty Images
Donald Laible
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When it comes to the World Series over the past half dozen years, having a player named Will Smith on the championship team is anything but uncommon.

The Los Angeles Dodgers catcher was a star of the now completed 2025 World Series. Will Dills Smith, the 2016 first-round draft pick by Los Angeles in 2016 out of the University of Louisville, in all likelihood hit the most meaningful, and famous, home run of his career in Game 7 on Saturday in Toronto.

Donald Laible
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Don has covered pro baseball for several decades, beginning in the minor leagues as a radio broadcaster in the NY Mets organization. His Ice Chips & Diamond Dust blog ran from 2012-2020 at uticaod.com. His baseball passion surrounds anything concerning the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and writing features on the players and staff of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Don currently resides in southwest Florida.