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[Los Angeles Dodgers]

How to watch Dodgers at Blue Jays World Series Game 6

The Dodgers need to win two games at Rogers Centre to win a championship, but in order to win Game 7 they first have to beat the Blue Jays Game 6 on Friday night in Toronto.

The Blue Jays come home riding high up three games to two in the series after winning the last two games at Dodger Stadium, now one win away from their first championship in 32 years.

Game 6 is a rematch of six days ago in Game 2 in the same ballpark, in which the game was tied 1-1 in the seventh inning when the Dodgers rallied for a win. Kevin Gausman retired 17 straight at one point before allowing home runs to Will Smith and Max Muncy to suffer the loss in his 6 2/3-inning start. Yoshinobu Yamamoto retired his final 20 batters faced to finish off another complete game, the first MLB pitcher with consecutive complete games in the postseason in 24 years.

World Series Game 6 info​

• Teams: Dodgers at Blue Jays
• Toronto leads best-of-seven series, 3-2
• Ballpark: Rogers Centre, Toronto
• Start time: 5:10-ish p.m. PT
• TV: Fox (Joe Davis, John Smotz, Ken Rosenthal, Tom Verducci)
• National radio: ESPN Radio (Jon Sciambi, Eduardo Pérez, Jessica Mendoza, Buster Olney)
• Local English radio: AM 570 (Stephen Nelson, Rick Monday)
• Local Spanish radio: KTNQ 1020 AM (Pepe Yñiguez, José Mota, Luis Cruz)

Source: https://www.truebluela.com/dodgers-...ays-world-series-game-6-television-start-time

 

[Los Angeles Dodgers]

Dodgers vs. Blue Jays World Series Game 6 overflow chat

More Game 6 discussion.

REMINDER: we’ll have one more game thread at 7:24 p.m. PT.

World Series Game 6 info​

• Teams: Dodgers at Blue Jays
• Toronto leads best-of-seven series, 3-2
• Ballpark: Rogers Centre, Toronto
• Start time: 5:10-ish p.m. PT
• TV: Fox (Joe Davis, John Smotz, Ken Rosenthal, Tom Verducci)
• National radio: ESPN Radio (Jon Sciambi, Eduardo Pérez, Jessica Mendoza, Buster Olney)
• Local English radio: AM 570 (Stephen Nelson, Rick Monday)
• Local Spanish radio: KTNQ 1020 AM (Pepe Yñiguez, José Mota, Luis Cruz)

Source: https://www.truebluela.com/dodgers-game-threads/106922/dodgers-blue-jays-world-series-game-6

 

[Los Angeles Dodgers]

Dodgers redefining how little you need to hit to win a World Series game

The Dodgers won Game 6 of the World Series, and they did so with yet another largely bad performance at the plate. Struggling on the hitting front for the better part of this series, for Los Angeles to be successful in these games and hopefully secure a second consecutive World Series, the path was no longer to, quote unquote, “find themselves as a lineup”—while that definitely could be accomplished, there is very little outside of faith in these players’ track records to expect a drastic turnaround at the eleventh hour. Luckily for the Dodgers, they didn’t need to be brilliant offensively; they didn’t even need to be particularly good. All that was required was to seize the moment and maximize the rare opportunity in which it could do damage.

Kevin Gausman, a pitcher who notoriously handles Shohei Ohtani quite well, came out of the gates firing on all cylinders, punching out the reigning NL MVP to lead off the game en route to striking out a whopping six of the first seven hitters he faced. If the Dodgers’ own struggles weren’t enough to paint a bleak picture, they had to contend with an ace who was, by all accounts, at the top of his game.

After Kiké Hernández led off the third with an out, the Dodgers had their first and only opportunity to score against Gausman. Tommy Edman doubled, and Shohei Ohtani was intentionally walked on either side of a Miguel Rojas strikeout, setting up a two-on, two-out situation.

It’d be easy to come here and praise the lineup shifting as the thing that unlocked a bit of scoring, but at its core, this moment was about a big player(s) showing up at a crucial time. While it is not performing well right now, the Dodgers’ offense has a multitude of hitters you believe are able to step up for a single moment and make the difference between winning and losing a season-defining baseball game. As contradictory as it may sound, that’s effectively the case.

Moved to the second hole since Game 5, Will Smith delivered an RBI double, and after a Freddie Freeman walk, it was Mookie Betts, likely this team’s biggest underperformer in terms of expectation and current production (regular and postseason), who got the biggest hit.

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Gausman, who had already thrown a fastball up and in past Mookie in that at-bat, tried to do it again, and the Dodgers shortstop was ready for it, dumping it in left field to drive in two runs.

After that moment, the Dodgers’ offense had nothing left, and apart from a wasted opportunity in the eighth, it emptied the tank to the point of not even creating threats. In a game they had to win, the Dodgers finished nine innings with a meager four total hits. But boy, were they timely hits, three of them coming in that glorious third inning.

Source: https://www.truebluela.com/dodgers-...le-you-need-to-hit-to-win-a-world-series-game

 

[Los Angeles Dodgers]

Will Smith home run completes Dodgers Game 7 comeback to win another World Series

Will Smith caught more innings than any other catcher in a single World Series, and his 11th-inning home run gave the Dodgers their first lead of Game 7, and clinched a second straight championship with a 5-4 win over the Blue Jays on Saturday night and into Sunday morning at Rogers Centre in Toronto.

Seven different pitchers who started games in this World Series were used in a do-or-die Game 7, including Game 4 starter Shane Bieber, who allowed the go-ahead home run to Smith with two outs in the 11th.

Will Power pic.twitter.com/PlhQtM80Pb

— SportsNet LA (@SportsNetLA) November 2, 2025

Smith caught all 73 innings of the 2025 World Series, two more than Lou Criger caught for the Boston Americans (later, the Red Sox) in the 1903 Fall Classic.

That made a winner out of Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who you might remember from such starts as Game 6 one night earlier. After throwing 96 pitches in six innings on Friday, Yamamoto escaped an inherited jam in the ninth, pitched through the 10th, then worked around a leadoff double by Vladimir Guerrero Jr. for a clean 11th as well to earn the win for a second straight night.

The final outs came on a double play grounder by Alejandro Kirk, with Mookie Betts taking it himself to shortstop then throwing to first base to close out the first back-to-back champions in MLB since the New York Yankees from 1998-2000.

THE @DODGERS ARE BACK ON TOP AS WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS #CHAMPS

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— MLB (@MLB) November 2, 2025

Yamamoto was named World Series MVP for his three wins in the series.

For a while, it didn’t seem like the Dodgers would get this chance. They left two runners on base in each of the fourth, fifth, and sixth innings, and during the World Series hit just .203/.294/.364 and averaged 3.71 runs per game. They trailed by two runs late but got solo home runs by Max Muncy in the eighth and Miguel Rojas in the ninth to even the score. Muncy, Rojas, and Smith joined Lou Johnson (1965) as the only Dodgers with home runs in Game 7 of the World Series.

They also might not have even got to extra innings were it not for Andy Pages, who was inserted for Tommy Edman in center field in the ninth. Pages got to a bases-loaded fly ball that Edman with his bad ankle likely wouldn’t have reached, and made a game-saving catch, bowling over Kiké Hernández in the process.

OH MY GOODNESS WE ARE GOING TO EXTRAS pic.twitter.com/r3I9Swj4gg

— MLB (@MLB) November 2, 2025

Shohei Ohtani pitching on three days rest was not sharp, having trouble with most of his pitches outside the fastball and looking exhausted while on the mound. He got through the first two innings scoreless, thanks to George Springer bailing on a stolen base attempt to end the first inning and a hobbled Bo Bichette not sent home from second base on a single in the second when Toronto stranded the bases loaded.

Ohtani was at 43 pitches through two innings, and was still sent out for a third inning to face the top of the order. Ohtani ended the top of the first inning on base and ended the third inning at-bat, and both times was given extra time to warm up for pitching the bottom of the frame, to the understandable consternation of Blue Jays manager John Schneider. During the Fox broadcast, major league umpire Mark Carlson from the MLB replay center explained that if a pitcher ends the previous inning on base or at-bat, umpires are allowed discretion to give extra time for warming up.

But all that was background noise soon enough, as Springer opened the third inning with a single, was bunted to second, and took third on a wild pitch. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was intentionally walked with a 1-0 count, then Bichette hammered a slider for a three-run home run to open the scoring and end Ohtani’s time on the mound.

BO BICHETTE BELTS ONE TO DEEP CENTER @BLUEJAYS LEAD 3-0 IN GAME 7 pic.twitter.com/64ai0Udfyl

— MLB (@MLB) November 2, 2025

Justin Wrobleski was first out of the bullpen and retired four of his six batters faced with two strikeouts, ending his first postseason series with five scoreless innings and six strikeouts in four appearances. There were some fireworks in the fourth, when Andres Giménez leaned in and nearly got hit by one pitch then did get hit on the hand by the next pitch. Giménez and Wrobleski exchanged expletives and the benches emptied but it was much ado about nothing, except to provide training for an introductory lip-reading course.

A closer look at the exchange between Wrobleski and Giménez that led to the benches clearing. pic.twitter.com/PvHaPkmVfL

— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) November 2, 2025

The Dodgers had some hard-hit balls of Max Scherzer, making his second career Game 7 start in the World Series. But they didn’t have much to show for it until the fourth inning, when Will Smith doubled high off the wall in center and the team had runners at the corners with nobody out, and bases loaded with one out. Los Angeles got a run on a sacrifice fly, but it could have been more if the out on the play wasn’t an incredible diving catch by Daulton Varsho in center field to rob Teoscar Hernández of a hit. Guerrero then made a diving grab behind first base on a Tommy Edman liner to end the inning.

Rojas singled with one out in the fifth to end Scherzer’s night, and Ohtani singled off reliever Louis Varland, who broke a major league record by appearing in 15 games (out of 18) this postseason. But Smith and Freddie Freeman each flew out to waste the opportunity.

Chris Bassitt, the third Toronto pitcher, was greeted by a Mookie Betts walk and Muncy single to set up another run, this time on a sacrifice fly by Edman to pull within 3-2.

Tyler Glasnow, who got the final three outs on three pitches in Game 6, entered a precarious situation in the fourth inning, with two on and two out, facing the Blue Jays best hitter. But he got Guerrero to fly out to end that threat and kept his ledger scoreless scoreless until two hits, including an RBI double by Giménez to put Toronto’s lead back at two. Glasnow escaped further damage by getting Guerrero to ground out to end the sixth.

This was the second time in Glasnow’s career he pitched on consecutive days, along with two innings on June 30 and one inning on July 1, 2018 while with the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Game 5 starter Trey Yesavage got five outs in relief, but also allowed Muncy’s home run in the eighth inning to pull the Dodgers within a run. Fellow Game 5 starter Blake Snell entered in the bottom of the eighth inning with a runner on second base, and retired all three batters he faced.

A total of seven pitchers who started games in this World Series pitched in Game 7, with Ohtani, Glasnow, Snell, and Yamamoto recording 26 outs with four runs allowed, while Scherzer, Yesavage, and Bieber recorded 21 outs and gave up three runs.

World Series Game 7 particulars​

Home runs: Max Muncy (3), Miguel Rojas (1), Will Smith (2); Bo Bichette (1)

WP — Yoshinobu Yamamoto (5-1): 2 2/3 IP, 1 hit, 1 walk, 1 strikeout

LP — Shane Bieber (2-1): 1 IP, 1 hit, 1 run

Up next​

Another parade in Los Angeles, on Monday.

Source: https://www.truebluela.com/dodgers-...d-series-will-smith-yoshinobu-yamamoto-game-7

 

[Los Angeles Dodgers]

Whatever you saw coming, it wasn’t this type of World Series win

The Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series, and the number of people who expected to say that ever since the start of the season was uncommon for a sport whose playoff format is so unpredictable. If that championship came, as it did, no matter the circumstances, there would be plenty willing to jump to the conclusion of the inevitability of it all. What Game 7 showed us is that this line of thought couldn’t be further from the truth, doing a disservice to each member of this roster to argue otherwise. It was clear in multiple instances that it would’ve been the easiest thing in the world for Los Angeles not to come out on the winning end, and it could’ve happened countless times, and the fact that it didn’t only enhances the individual accomplishments of this group. They didn’t steamroll the competition with superior talent; they gutted one out in the truest sense of the word.

Right at the start of things, Shohei Ohtani, on short rest in a hostile environment, could’ve been the story of the most gifted, talented athlete this sport has ever seen, proving himself superior to anyone else. Not the case. Few pitchers who took the mound in this game looked as vulnerable as Ohtani, who couldn’t find the strike zone consistently, mostly lucking himself into holding the Jays scoreless for the first two frames despite allowing a wave of base runners. Knowing the state of his bullpen, Dave Roberts kept pushing his luck with Ohtani until it all came crumbling down on a Bo Bichette three-run bomb in what was likely his last hitter (Justin Wrobleki was ready to face Addison Barger), no matter what. If this series has indicated anything, it is that a three-run deficit might as well feel like five+ with how Los Angeles was hitting.

On the opposite end of the pitching matchup, as we alluded to before the game here, even if Max Scherzer did well, the Dodgers were going to get more opportunities than they did facing Trey Yesavage and Kevin Gausman. That came to pass, but Los Angeles failed to capitalize, in large part due to some bad batted ball luck and outstanding outfield defense from the Jays. Despite collecting plenty of hard contact against the future Hall of Famer, the Dodgers only scored one run against him in 4+ innings of work.

Right as it felt Los Angeles was gaining some momentum, after they made it a 3-2 game, Andrés Giménez, of all people, managed to tack on a run in the sixth against Tyler Glasnow. The right-hander was effective in his performance, just not enough to keep that run off the board, eventually stranding that runner with far better hitters (George Springer and Vladimir Guerrero Jr.) coming up.

Trailing 4-2 in the late innings, the Dodgers had the star power to step up and still perpetuate the narrative of inevitability, but they’d need to do it against dominant pitchers such as Yesavage and Hoffman. It wasn’t Shohei Ohtani nor Freddie Freeman, but Max Muncy, this franchise’s all-time leader in home runs, and Miguel Rojas who hit clutch solo shots in the eighth and ninth to eventually tie the game.

By every measure, Rojas shouldn’t be in this situation. The Dodgers paid Michael Conforto a bunch of money to help strengthen the depth of this lineup, and they developed Andy Pages as a breakout youngster. Alex Call easily could’ve been pinch-hitting for Rojas in the spot, as a likelier candidate to run into one. In the end, though, Roberts trusted Rojas, and he delivered against all odds.

Following Ohtani on the pitching side of things, the Dodgers let the recent performance dictate their choices, and what that screamed was to trust as many starters as possible, regardless of their outlook heading into the game. Factoring that in, what was so inevitable about Emmet Sheehan and especially Justin Wrobleski keeping the Jays off the board? This bullpen being a vulnerable spot wasn’t an overplayed narrative, but more so a genuinely accurate description of the current situation. These choices could’ve blown up in the Dodgers’ faces, but they didn’t because those pitchers rose to the occasion.

Once they managed to tie it up with Rojas, even then, the sense of inevitability was nowhere to be found, with the Jays knocking on the possibility of a walk-off win right after. What bridged the gap between the Dodgers tying it and winning it was the memorable work of Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who looked untouchable but managed that in a situation where everyone was simply flabbergasted and awed by his accomplishments. Pitchers don’t come back after a start on no days of rest for multi-inning appearances, and if they do, their effectiveness is a complete unknown.

Before the Dodgers secured the win, it was widely known that if they did, Yamamoto would be the World Series MVP, and even at that point, only three outs away, reality crept in and showed there are no assurances. A Vladimir Guerrero Jr. double to lead off the eleventh made it an even more tense game until the final out, but Yamamoto was able to bear down and seal the win.

Every game has its ebbs and flows, but taking an objective approach, it’s virtually impossible for anyone to have watched this game and now argue it was never in doubt. In doubt is what it was for nearly all of it for the Dodgers, and that makes it all the more special.

Source: https://www.truebluela.com/dodgers-scores-standings/107101/dodgers-blue-jays-world-series-game-7