The LA Dodgers won the World Series but for Latino fans, it’s complicated

<p>The fact that Latino stars were at the forefront of the victory over the Toronto Blue Jays sits alongside the club’s near silence on the immigration raids roiling the city</p><p>For Natalia Molina, a lifelong fan of the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/los-angeles-dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a> and a third-generation Mexican American, the crowning moment of baseball’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/world-series">World Series</a> didn’t come in last Saturday’s nail-biting finale, when her team performed one death-defying escape act after another before prevailing in extra innings over the Toronto Blue Jays.</p><p>It came a game earlier, when two of the team’s second-tier players, Kike Hernández, who is from Puerto Rico, and Miguel Rojas, from Venezuela, pulled off a thrilling, game-winning sequence that simultaneously upended the many negative stereotypes Donald Trump has been touting about Latinos since he first ran for president a decade ago.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/nov/08/la-dodgers-latino-fans-world-series">Continue reading...</a>