Plaschke: Seeing double: Dodgers celebrate titles on a sparkling opening day

Miguel Rojas and Freddie Freeman hold onto the 2025 (left) and 2024 World Series Commissioner's trophies as Will Ferrell drives them along the outfield warning track before the game. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) There were fireworks, there was a flyover, there was Will Ferrell screaming and Keith Williams Jr. crooning and four months of cheers unleashed by fans wearing championship belts and howling grins.

But the real stars of Thursday’s Dodger opening day show never made a sound. They arrived silently at the end of the pregame ceremony , carefully held by two of the men who helped win them, lifted high for all those who so passionately longed for them. They were the last two Commissioner’s Trophies, the back-to-back World Series championship trophies, the two symbols of the Dodgers domination held side by side in the afternoon sun.

Man, it was beautiful. Goodness, how they sparkled. Incredible, how they glowed.

Read more: Miguel Rojas cherishes final opening day as 'Uncle Miggy' in Dodgers' win over Arizona It was almost as if they were powered by some electrical force, some sort of championship current running between them, lighting them up with a blinding power curated by the battered fingers of the two veterans who touched them. Freddie Freeman, whose grand slam doomed the New York Yankees, held the 2024 trophy. Miguel Rojas, whose home run stunned the Toronto Blue Jays, held the 2025 trophy.