Dodgers World Series celebration ends with roaring rally, 'We Love LA' playing through stadium

Los Angeles Dodgers' superstar Shohei Ohtani brought his dog Decoy along to the World Series championship parade on Friday.

Decoy has become a fixture of Dodgers - and dog - fandom. The pup was on Ohtani's lap when he learned he was the first Major League Baseball player ever to be unanimously selected twice as Most Valuable Player, which he achieved while with the Los Angeles Angels.

Decoy also featured in Ohtani's post-victory Instagram post, with photos of the dog being taken for a walk amid autumnal foliage and looking groggy in bed just after images of the Dodgers' champagne celebration.

After Ohtani went on to sign a record $700 million, 10-year deal with the Dodgers, some of the first questions that reporters had for him were about the dog. At a news conference, the Japanese-born Ohtani revealed his pet's name - in Japanese, Dekopin, but he suggested that Decoy would be easier for Americans to pronounce.

It's also a fitting name for a member of this Dutch duck-hunting breed. Indeed, the English word "decoy" is thought to come from the Dutch term "de kooi," which means "the cage."

The Nederlandse kooikerhondje (pronounced NAY'-dehr-lahn-seh KOY'-kehr-hahnd-jeh) was initially trained to get ducks' attention and then lure them into net-covered canals for hunters to catch. Take a look at many a Dutch Old Master painting, and if you spot a smallish, brown and white, spaniel-like dog with long ears, you've probably seen an ancestor of today's kooikerhondje.

Owners say the breed is lively and clever.

Clever enough to, for instance, carry out the ceremonial first pitch in front of nearly 54,000 people, as Decoy did at a Dodgers-Orioles game in August.

Decoy's portrait might not be hanging on a museum wall, but he's been immortalized in an Ohtani bobblehead. The pooch also got a special, supersized "visa" during a visit to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo last winter.

Pitcher Walker Buehler drank from a beer bong funnel while perched atop one of the Dodger buses during the parade celebrating the team's World Series victory.

The bus was parked outside Los Angeles City Hall when Buehler, clad in an Orel Hershiser jersey, filled the funnel by pouring from an apparent 16-ounce can of Budweiser.

Confetti streams rained down as Buehler took a knee and drained the funnel as the motorcade of buses again got underway.

Fans cheered and waved at their heroes. The parade occurred on what would have been the 64th birthday of Fernando Valenzuela, the 1981 NL Cy Young Award and Rookie of the Year winner who died days before the World Series began.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Along the Dodgers parade route, ABC7 News interviewed fans who admitted they called in "sick" to work so they could celebrate the World Series win.

One fan chose to stay anonymous while talking to Eyewitness News.

Businesses around Los Angeles probably had a lot of empty desks on Friday. Plenty of fans admitted calling in sick to see the Dodgers parade.

A small crowd of Dodger fans got a surprising thrill Friday morning when half a dozen double-decker, open air buses with the world champions onboard exited the Dodger Stadium parking lot on their way to the parade route.

A heavy law-enforcement presence was visible, including a Los Angeles Police Department SWAT team and California Highway Patrol cruisers as part of the motorcade.

A small crowd of Dodger fans got a surprising thrill when half a dozen double-decker, open air buses with the world champions onboard exited the Dodger Stadium parking lot on their way to the parade route.

Some Dodger team members could be seen in a partying atmosphere aboard the buses, drinking beer and smoking cigars. The buses were later showered with blue and white streamers as they pulled away from City Hall to start the parade.