L.A. Dodgers Win Second World Series In A Row With Wild Game 7 Win Over Toronto Blue Jays

The Los Angeles Dodgers won their second World Series in a row Saturday, with Will Smith’s home run in the 11th inning clinching 5-4 victory in a wild Game 7 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays.

It was the ninth world series title for the Dodgers franchise, but it wasn’t easy, having to stave off elimination with a win Friday and then coming from behind tonight.

Miguel Rojas hit a ninth-inning home run to tie the game the Dodgers had trailed since the third inning after Toronto’s Bo Bichette’s three-run homer. Yoshinobu Yamamoto, coming if for relief after starting Game 6 the night before, then held the Blue Jays who were looking for their first World Series win since 1993.

Yamomoto pitched a complete game in Game 2 and won Game 6 to force tonight’s do-or-die game.

Bichette’s three-run home run off Dodgers starter Shohei Ohtana — going on three days’ rest for only the second time in his career — in the third inning looked for a while to be enough for the Jays.

The Dodgers, led by the remarkable feats of Ohtani, had been favored going into the best-of-7 series as defending champions and looking for their third World Series title since 2017. Toronto, which won back to back titles in 1992 and 1993, hadn’t even won a postseason game since 2016.

Toronto, though, showed they were for real from the start, when they blew out the Dodgers in Game 1 11-4, then recovered to win a pair of games in L.A. after falling short in the record-tying 18-inning Game 3 that gave Los Angeles a 2-1 lead in the series.