Enrique Hernández and Miguel Rojas combined for a spectacular double play that preserved the Dodgers’ lead in the ninth inning as Toronto touched on glory. The play, one of the most improbable in World Series history, kept the Dodgers alive and the October Classic will reach November with game 7 this Saturday.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto threw another extraordinary match, although this time shorter, and Mookie Betts came out of a horrendous slump with a two-run hit in the third inning to avoid the Blue Jays’ coronation in a tense game 6 won by Los Angeles 3-1 at the Rogers Center in Toronto, where the public was left in disbelief at the end of the game.
The outcome was worthy of Hollywood. With men on second and third with no out, manager Dave Roberts called Tyler Glasnow to relieve Roki Sasaki. The man who was supposed to be the starter for a probable Game 7 came in and with just three pitches ended the game, first dominating Ernie Clement on an infield fly ball.
Shortly after, Andrés Giménez hit a short ball to left field. Kiké Hernández reached the ball running at full speed and, without composure, threw to second.where Rojas put out running back Barger, who could not return in time. The Venezuelan second baseman, added to the lineup by his manager, responded with great fielding plays.
In the game for the crown of the best baseball in the world, scheduled for 8 pm Eastern (5 pm Pacific), Shohei Ohtani is now the probable pitcher – with three days’ rest – for Los Angeles and Max Scherzer for Toronto. Whatever happens it will be a memorable night: the Dodgers will become the first team to win consecutive MLB titles in a quarter of a century or the Blue Jays will become champions again after a 32-year wait.
To get to game 7, they They were going to need to give Yamamoto help. And they did it, with enough runs although they only had 4 hits, and good defense, which was not always there in 2025.
The Dodgers will try to complete the comeback and win the World Series with two straight road wins after being down 3-2 in the series, something that last happened in 2019 when the Washington Nationals beat Houston 6-2 in Game 7.
Dodgers batting revives in third inning
Kevin Gausman, 34-year-old starter, started the game just as he would have imagined for the Blue Jays, striking out Ohtani, Will Smith and Freddie Freemanall unable to connect the ‘splitter’ of the right launcher. It was a continuation of the previous game in which the Los Angeles hitters They couldn’t handle rookie pitcher Trey Yesavage’s ‘splitter’.
The Blue Jays starter continued to deceive the Dodgers hitters with his split-fingered ball in the second inning to extend the hitting drought of Los Angeles, which only scored 4 runs in its last 31 innings. But in the third they took away Gausman’s sharpness when Tommy Edman ambushed one of his rare fastballs and hit a double over the glove of first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
After striking out Miguel Rojas for Gausman’s seventh and with first base unoccupied, the Blue Jays intentionally walked Ohtani. Smith made them pay by hitting a double against the wall in left to drive in the first run.. Freeman walked and Betts, who on Wednesday declared he had been “terrible” at bat, responded with a single to left to drive in Ohtani and Smith, making the score 3-0 in the third inning.
The hit by Betts, who took advantage of a hit fastball – a pitch that had already missed twice in the turn – It broke a streak of 13 consecutive no-hit opportunities with the bases loaded for the Dodgers. It couldn’t have come at a better time.
With that rally that silenced the Rogers Center a bit, the Dodgers were the first to score for the third game in a row at the Blue Jays’ home in the series.
Toronto scores, but Yamamoto imposes conditions
Toronto, however, scored at the end of the third. Addison Barger led off with a double down the left field and after two outs, George Springer singled to center to make it 3-1.
Yamamoto, after the RBI hit by a man who since his days with the Astros was a headache for the Dodgers, sailed with mastery in the following innings through Toronto’s uncomfortable lineup, especially in the sixth inning when Guerrero Jr. hit a double with two outs and Bo Bichette worked the Japanese’s first walk in the World Series.
But Yamamoto struck out Daulton Varsho with a splitter to extinguish the threat with his 96th pitch. There ended the winning performance of “Yoshi” (6 innings, 5 hits, 1 run, 6 strikeouts, 1 base), who has quickly earned a special place in the hearts of Dodger fans.
The lefty Justin Wrobleski was the man chosen from a banged-up Dodgers bullpen to replace Yamamoto. The young pitcher responded by working around a Clement double to hang a huge zero in the seventh, including strikeouts over Mexico’s Alejandro Kirk (0-3) and Venezuelan Andrés Giménez with killer fastballs.
The Dodgers had a chance to increase their lead in the eighth when Ohtani doubled after one out and eventually the bases were loaded by walks. However, Teoscar Hernández failed for the umpteenth time in the series when he struck out for the third time of the night.
The Dodgers leave everything in Sasaki, but the ending is unexpected
Roki Sasaki, the 23-year-old right-hander who spent most of the season in the minor leagues and who was converted to the Dodgers’ closer before the playoffs, dominated Bichette and Varsho with two men on base to get out of the eighth entry into an almost unthinkable situation for a rookie who only arrived in baseball in the United States this year.
But in the ninth inning, Sasaki hit Kirk with a two-strike pitch and then received a double. of Barger. The ball hit under the center field fence and by rule double ground was marked. Toronto had the tie in scoring position and the championship run in the batter’s box.
So manager Roberts called up his likely Game 7 starter, Glasnow, to try to save them. The rest were three pitches and an Angeleno miracle to extend the season one more day
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