Where there's a Will (Smith), there's a way: 6 straight years with a title

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There are some wild stats in baseball history.

Stan Musial had 1,815 hits at home and 1,815 hits on the road during his Hall of Fame career. Khris Davis batted exactly .247 in four consecutive seasons from 2015-18. And that’s just to name a couple.

Here's an incredible streak that was extended when the Dodgers defeated the Blue Jays in a winner-take-all Game 7 of the 2025 World Series on Saturday night in Toronto, clinching the franchise's second straight title, third in six years and ninth overall. A player named Will Smith now has won a World Series ring for a sixth consecutive year.

Dodgers catcher Will Smith won his third ring, and he had a huge hand in doing so, blasting the go-ahead home run off Shane Bieber in the top of the 11th inning, providing the winning margin in a 5-4 game. It was Smith's second homer of this World Series, and he's gone deep in each of his three Fall Classic appearances. Smith and the Dodgers also took down the Rays after the pandemic-shortened 2020 campaign, then got past the Yankees in 2024. Now they are the first team to win back-to-back titles since the 1998-2000 Yankees.

But what about the seasons in between his first and second rings?

That gap was filled by Will Smith. No, the other Will Smith. No, not the actor -- the other Will Smith in MLB.

https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-player-named-will-smith-world-series-streak

That Will Smith was a veteran left-handed reliever who last pitched for the Royals in 2024, capping off a 12-year MLB career. He won a World Series ring each year from 2021-23, becoming the first player in MLB history to be on the World Series roster with three teams in three consecutive years and win it all each time. He won a World Series ring with the Braves in 2021, the Astros in ’22, and the Rangers in ’23.