Dodgers fans are already in George Springer’s head with World Series returning to LA

There’s a certain electricity only Dodger Stadium can conjure in October. And if there are any “Springer Dingers” in Chavez Ravine, they’ll land in a hurricane of noise. As the World Series shifts to Los Angeles, George Springer isn’t just stepping into a hostile environment; he’s walking into a memory palace where 2017 still echoes for the Los Angeles Dodgers with a chorus of 50,000 boos.

When the World Series shifts to Los Angeles on Oct. 27 for Game 3 and runs through Oct. 29 for Game 5, that static will turn personal for Springer, now the Toronto Blue Jays’ DH. No matter how many Canadian autumns he’s played through, Los Angeles remembers 2017 like it was yesterday.

Dodgers fans aim to rattle George Springer as World Series returns to LA

Even with the series leveled 1–1 and the chessboard resetting for a best-of-five, the atmosphere itself becomes a matchup; Blue Jays versus Dodgers, yes, but also Springer versus a ballpark that’s been waiting eight years to say what it really thinks.

Springer knows what’s coming and says he’ll narrow his world to the job.

“I just have to focus on the game,” he told the Los Angeles Times. “At the end of the day, I have a job to do. I have a game to focus on. That’s where I am on that.” 

It’s the right answer on paper. Acknowledge the noise, park it, and get back to approach and zone. But in LA, the boos don’t merely exist; they accumulate, each plate appearance a new layer of context built on the old one. 

That context is inescapable here because the backdrop isn’t just the 2025 World Series, it’s the shadow of 2017. Springer has become a hero in Toronto and a steadying presence atop the order, but in this zip code, he’s still the throughline to a title Dodgers fans feel was stolen by the Houston Astros team he starred on. 

Fans won’t parse the nuances of who did what and when; they’ll compress it into a wall of sound. That doesn’t mean Springer will crumble. It does mean every look to the dugout, every deep breath, every mound conference will be filtered through the same lens: can he compartmentalize in this building, in this moment?

And that’s why his at-bats in LA are about to become a subplot with real teeth. The Jays don’t need Springer to win the series all by himself. They need him to hold it together emotionally so the lineup can stack traffic and let the middle do damage. The Dodgers, fresh off Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s Game 2 masterpiece, will test that resolve, then let the crowd do the rest.

If Springer shrugs off the chorus and plays clean baseball, Toronto’s offense keeps its shape. If the noise leaks in, even a little, LA’s edge grows in places box scores don’t always show. Either way, the drama is baked in: the World Series is at Dodger Stadium, the boos are back, and George Springer is in the frame again, trying to make the past feel smaller than the next pitch.