On today’s episode of The Sporting Tribune Today, host Grant Mona guides you through two major storylines.

The World Series has long been a 2-3-2 format, and when a team loses its first two games on the road, a home clincher is impossible. That’s how it happened for the Dodgers in 1955, 1965 and 1981. In all three of those championship runs, they recovered to sweep their home games, then wrapped things up on the road in Game 6 or 7.

In a winner-take-all Game 7 for the ages, the Los Angeles Dodgers bested the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 in an 11-inning classic in the early morning hours Sunday to become back-to-back World Series champions.

With Game 4 of the NLCS rapidly approaching, the Los Angeles Dodgers find themselves a game away from the World Series, where they will face off against the Toronto Blue Jays or the Seattle Mariners for the right to become back-to-back World Series champions.

The Los Angeles Dodgers won their second straight World Series in dramatic fashion Saturday night, taking Game 7 by a 5-4 score in 11 innings at Rogers Centre. The game was an instant classic, and the Dodgers became the first team to win back-to-back championships since the New York Yankees in 1999 and 2000.

Los Angeles overcame 3-0 and 4-2 deficits and escaped a bases-loaded jam in the ninth to become the first repeat champion since the 1998-2000 Yankees.