TORONTO (AP) \u2014 A two-run lead was starting to slip away from the Los Angeles Dodgers in the ninth inning \u2014 along with their chance to force the World Series to Game 7.<\/p>\n
And then Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez turned what might have been a tying, two-run single by Andr\u00e9s Gim\u00e9nez into the first game-ending left field-to-second base double play<\/a> in postseason history.<\/p>\n \u201cThe crazy thing is I had no idea where the ball was because it was in the lights the whole time,\u201d Hern\u00e1ndez said after preserving a 3-1 win over the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 6 on Friday night.<\/p>\n Instead of getting a World Series-winning, three-run homer like the one Joe Carter hit off Philadelphia\u2019s Mitch Williams to win the title in Game 6 in 1993, the Blue Jays were pushed to Game 7 and the Dodgers kept alive their chance to become the first repeat champion since the 1998-2000 New York Yankees.<\/p>\n Max Scherzer will start Game 7<\/a> for Toronto against a Dodgers pitcher still to be determined \u2014 perhaps two-way star Shohei Ohtani, perhaps Tyler Glasnow. The October Classic will end in November for the 10th time.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s the two best words in sports: Game 7,\u201d Toronto manager John Schneider said.<\/p>\n Yoshinobu Yamamoto beat Toronto for the second time in a week by allowing one run in six innings, and slumping Mookie Betts hit a two-run single in a three-run third against Kevin Gausman that included Will Smith\u2019s go-ahead single. <\/p>\n George Springer, back after missing two games with a sore right side, hit an RBI single in the bottom half, and the Dodgers held that 3-1 lead going to the ninth.<\/p>\n Roki Sasaki hit Alejandro Kirk on the left wrist with an 0-2 splitter leading off and Addison Barger followed with a drive that landed at the base of the left-center wall and in a seldom-seen rarity lodged there instead of caroming back into play.<\/p>\n Both runners crossed the plate as many in the Rogers Centre crowd initially thought Toronto had tied the game, but the rule book is clear that a ball lodged in a fence is a double. The runners were placed at second and third, and Dodgers manager Dave Roberts brought in Glasnow, who was lined up to start Game 7 on normal rest.<\/p>\n \u201cI just felt that Roki wasn\u2019t as sharp, and I just felt we needed some swing-and-miss and Glasnow was the guy. So I had him loose, kind of looming,\u201d Roberts said.<\/p>\n Glasnow escaped with just three pitches.<\/p>\n Ernie Clement popped up his initial offering to first baseman Freddie Freeman.<\/p>\n Gim\u00e9nez took a ball and hit the next 247 feet to the opposite field, in short left.<\/p>\n Hern\u00e1ndez decided to play more shallow than the Dodgers instruction card called for. He ran 52 feet and while on the run made a catch that had only a 40% probability, then made a one-hop throw to second baseman Miguel Rojas that doubled up Barger.<\/p>\n \u201cFor a split second as Glasnow threw the ball, the crowd got quiet and I was able to hear that the bat broke,\u201d Hern\u00e1ndez said. \u201cSo I just got a really good jump on the ball and I came in and halfway there, the ball got in the lights. And I was just like, not the right time to stop to see where the ball is, just keep going.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s going to hit me in the face \u2014 but I\u2019m not stopping,\u201d Hern\u00e1ndez remembered thinking. \u201cI\u2019m not pulling up. And at the very end, the ball came out of the lights and went into my glove.\u201d <\/p>\n Barger had gotten about halfway to third before scrambling back and reached second base too late with his headfirst slide.<\/p>\n \u201cI was being too aggressive, trying to score, try to tie that game if that ball drops,\u201d Barger said.<\/p>\n Even after the umpire signaled out, players had to wait 60 seconds for the call to be upheld by the replay room in New York.<\/p>\n