The Los Angeles Dodgers are still alive.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers scored three runs in the third inning en route to a 3-1 win over the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 6 of the World Series. Los Angeles forced a Game 7 that will be played at 8 p.m. ET on Saturday night in a winner-take-all matchup.<\/p>\n
Starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto was lights out for the Dodgers, allowing only five hits and one run while striking out six batters over six innings. <\/p>\n
The Blue Jays had runners on second and third with no outs in the bottom of the ninth, a chance to tie or win the game. But after Tyler Glasnow entered, Toronto quickly recorded three outs, including a game-ending double play on a lineout to left field. <\/p>\n
“We live for Game 7s,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said, “so here we go.”<\/p>\n
Los Angeles did the bulk of its damage in the third inning, all with two outs. Will Smith hit an RBI double after a Tommy Edman double and Shohei Ohtani intentional walk. And then, following a Freddie Freeman walk, Mookie Betts hit a two-run single with the bases loaded.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just want to be there to help the boys and I came up in a big spot,\u201d Betts said postgame. \u201cMy wife tells me all the time to just stay in the moment. Just be ready for this next moment … I was able to lock in.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Blue Jays answered with one run in the bottom of that inning with a George Springer single, but their bats were ultimately silent for the rest of the night.<\/p>\n
This was the Dodgers\u2019 best offensive night since the marathon Game 3, when they scored six runs in an 18-inning affair that tied the record for longest World Series game. Over the last two games, Los Angeles combined to score only three runs.<\/p>\n
Toronto, meanwhile, tied its worst offensive performance of the World Series, scoring only the lone run. The Blue Jays had scored six in each of the last two games, and five in Game 3.<\/p>\n
Yamamoto entered Game 6 with a 3-1 record in the playoffs and a 1.57 ERA in four starts. He\u2019s now won three straight starts to improve to 4-1, and he finishes the postseason allowing only one run in each of his last three starts. <\/p>\n
Dodgers reliever Roki Sasaki pitched into the ninth, making only his second appearance in the series. He gave way to Glasnow \u2014 a potential Game 7 starter \u2014 who got Ernie Clement to pop out and Andres Giminez to line out to left. Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez made the catch and throw to second to double off Addison Barger and end the game.<\/p>\n
Future Hall of Fame pitcher Max Scherzer is expected to start Game 7 for Toronto. Roberts has not yet announced who will take the mound Saturday for Los Angeles but he said Ohtani, a two-way player, is expected to pitch in some capacity.<\/p>\n
“That\u2019s a good question. Right now there\u2019s no wrong answer,” Roberts said on the Fox broadcast about Ohtani’s availability. “He\u2019s certainly going to be part of the pitching plan. It could be two innings or it could be four innings. I\u2019m not sure where we\u2019re going to slot him. We\u2019re going to have to talk to him and see where he feels most comfortable.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Dodgers are still alive. The Dodgers scored three runs in the third inning en route…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-254242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254242","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=254242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}