All data here is from Baseball Reference. The Dodgers had a .658 OPS and the Blue Jays had .745 for a -.087 differential.
This table shows the 35 teams that won the World Series with a negative OPS differential (So teams with a higher OPS are 86-35 for a .711 winning percentage).
|
Year |
Winner |
WOPS |
Loser |
LOPS |
WOPSDIFF |
|
1960 |
PIT |
0.656 |
NYY |
0.911 |
-0.255 |
|
2003 |
FLA |
0.582 |
NYY |
0.743 |
-0.161 |
|
1996 |
NYY |
0.596 |
ATL |
0.697 |
-0.101 |
|
1912 |
BOS |
0.599 |
NYG |
0.689 |
-0.090 |
|
1980 |
PHI |
0.745 |
KCR |
0.833 |
-0.088 |
|
2025 |
LAD |
0.658 |
TOR |
0.745 |
-0.087 |
|
1962 |
NYY |
0.549 |
SFG |
0.622 |
-0.073 |
|
1945 |
DET |
0.611 |
CHC |
0.680 |
-0.069 |
|
1948 |
CLE |
0.548 |
BSN |
0.617 |
-0.069 |
|
1964 |
STL |
0.679 |
NYY |
0.747 |
-0.068 |
|
1940 |
CIN |
0.632 |
DET |
0.697 |
-0.065 |
|
1973 |
OAK |
0.609 |
NYM |
0.669 |
-0.060 |
|
2009 |
NYY |
0.725 |
PHI |
0.782 |
-0.057 |
|
2019 |
WSN |
0.739 |
HOU |
0.794 |
-0.055 |
|
1957 |
MLN |
0.639 |
NYY |
0.691 |
-0.052 |
|
1991 |
MIN |
0.693 |
ATL |
0.744 |
-0.051 |
|
1918 |
BOS |
0.492 |
CHC |
0.541 |
-0.049 |
|
1986 |
NYM |
0.713 |
BOS |
0.755 |
-0.042 |
|
2024 |
LAD |
0.702 |
NYY |
0.743 |
-0.041 |
|
1997 |
FLA |
0.787 |
CLE |
0.819 |
-0.032 |
|
1909 |
PIT |
0.624 |
DET |
0.653 |
-0.029 |
|
1924 |
WSH |
0.668 |
NYG |
0.692 |
-0.024 |
|
2002 |
ANA |
0.835 |
SFG |
0.857 |
-0.022 |
|
1974 |
OAK |
0.622 |
LAD |
0.643 |
-0.021 |
|
1958 |
NYY |
0.643 |
MLN |
0.660 |
-0.017 |
|
1931 |
STL |
0.575 |
PHA |
0.591 |
-0.016 |
|
1972 |
OAK |
0.576 |
CIN |
0.590 |
-0.014 |
|
1959 |
LAD |
0.691 |
CHW |
0.705 |
-0.014 |
|
1981 |
LAD |
0.718 |
NYY |
0.730 |
-0.012 |
|
1925 |
PIT |
0.714 |
WSH |
0.724 |
-0.010 |
|
1967 |
STL |
0.628 |
BOS |
0.636 |
-0.008 |
|
2023 |
TEX |
0.711 |
ARI |
0.719 |
-0.008 |
|
1917 |
CHW |
0.632 |
NYG |
0.637 |
-0.005 |
|
1977 |
NYY |
0.697 |
LAD |
0.700 |
-0.003 |
|
1975 |
CIN |
0.704 |
BOS |
0.706 |
-0.002 |
WOPS is the OPS for the World Series winner and LOPS is the OPS for the loser. WOPSDIFF is the differential for the winner.
The Yankees also had a higher OPS than the Dodgers did last year (-.041).
The only other team to win back to back World Series with a negative OPS differential besides the 2024-25 Dodgers was the A's who did it 3 years in a row, 1972-1973-1974. The Dodgers had a negative differential in the last 2 games in 2024, so the other team had a higher OPS in 7 of their last 9 World Series games. The Blue Jays had a higher OPS in 5 of the 7 games this year.
For the stats on the 2024 & 2025 series and each game's box score go to these Baseball Reference sites.
2024 World Series Los Angeles Dodgers over New York Yankees (4-1).
2025 World Series Los Angeles Dodgers over Toronto Blue Jays (4-3).
In Game 5 of the 2024 the Yankees had a .959 OPS and the Dodgers .561. The Dodgers won with a -.398 differential, the lowest ever to win a World Series game.
In Game 6 of 2025, the Blue Jays had a .669 OPS and the Dodgers had .454. That is the 12th lowest differential for a winning team in World Series history (-.215). Not shown at my post from last year linked below is the 11th which was 1985 Game 2 which the Royals lost even thought they beat the Cards in OPS .740 to .523 for a -.217 differential. See
This link has the 10 lowest differentials to ever win a World Series game.
