It\u2019s onto Game 7.<\/p>\n
With a chance to clinch the World Series in Game 6 on Friday at Rogers Centre, the Toronto Blue Jays instead fell 3-1 to the Los Angeles Dodgers, setting up a decisive final contest in less than 24 hours.<\/p>\n
A three-run rally in the third inning was enough offence for the Dodgers, who yet again let ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto do the rest.<\/p>\n
Yamamoto didn\u2019t pull off a third straight complete game, but he did go six strong, allowing just one run while spreading five hits and striking out six.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Blue Jays had their chances, including stranding two runners in the eighth, but just couldn\u2019t find the big hit that\u2019s felt like it\u2019s come so easily all post-season.<\/p>\n
Now, one clash for all the marbles \u2014 between the defending champion Dodgers, billed Goliath by some, and the plucky Blue Jays, who had just kept finding a way \u2014 will determine the 2025 MLB champion.<\/p>\n
In the middle of Los Angeles\u2019 brief offensive outburst was, of course, Shohei Ohtani.<\/p>\n
The two-way superstar stepped to the plate with two out and a man on second. Blue Jays manager John Schneider flashed four fingers and sent him to first, choosing instead to set up Gausman for a battle with two-hole hitter catcher Will Smith.<\/p>\n
Smith made the Blue Jays pay. He doubled into the left-field gap, scoring the runner from second. Then, after a walk of Freddie Freeman, struggling ex-MVP Mookie Betts finally came through in a big moment, knocking a single into left field to cash both Ohtani and Smith.<\/p>\n
More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s onto Game 7. With a chance to clinch the World Series in Game 6 on Friday at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-253752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}