Los Angeles Dodgers win the 2024 World Series against the New York Yankees. However, maybe a catcher with a Hollywood name is the key to a championship. Will Smith caught Walker Buehler’s series-winning strikeout to end Game 5 and give the Dodgers their eighth World Series title. In the process, he also extended one of the most puzzling streaks in all of baseball. For the fifth year in a row, a player named Will Smith won the World Series.

Will Smith of the Dodgers started the series in 2020 when LA defeated the Tampa Bay Rays in a COVID-shortened season. The Dodgers didn’t return to the Fall Classic until this season, was a veteran relief pitcher who won three World Series rings with three different teams, becoming the first player in MLB history to accomplish this feat. He first took the mound with the Atlanta Braves in 2021, the second with the Houston Astros in 2022 and the third with the Texas Rangers in 2023.