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Toronto Blue Jays' Bo Bichette celebrates his three-run home run against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the third inning of Game 7 of the World Series.By Greg Rosenstein and Matthew PouliotThe series is tied 3-3, meaning the winner Saturday will take the World Series championship.
The Dodgers are looking to repeat as champions. Toronto has not won the World Series since 1993.Andrés Giménez doubled to center field, driving in Ernie Clement who was on second base after a steal.Dodgers hold Blue Jays in bottom of fifth Bo Bichette lined out to open the inning, followed by Addison Barger striking out. Alejandro Kirk singled to center but Daulton Varsho grounded out to second.Dodgers threaten but do not score in 5th Miguel Rojas and Shohei Ohtani both singled but Enrique Hernandez struck out and both Will Smith and Freddie Freeman flew out, leaving two on.With 14 outs to go, it’s bullpen time After giving up a single with one out in the fifth, Max Scherzer didn’t get a chance to face Shohei Ohtani for a third time. Now the Jays will begin their quest to get 14 outs from the bullpen. Louis Varland, making his record 15th postseason appearance, will try for at least the first two of those. Almost certainly to be asked to get some of the remainder are Jeff Hofffman and Chris Bassitt. Mason Fluharty still might face Ohtani later. The fun thing to see will be if the Jays try to squeeze an inning out of Trey Yesavage on two days’ rest after his excellent Game 5 performance.Mason Fluharty replaces Max Scherzer after Scherzer gave up a line drive single to Miguel Rojas.41m ago / 9:41 PM EDTAfter the benches cleared in the fourth inning of Game 7, things got even a little less sensible, as the umpires decided to issue warning to both dugouts as a result of Andrés Giménez getting hit by a Justin Wrobleski pitch and the subsequent hijinks. Make no mistake, there’s no reason for warnings to ever be issued. If the umpires judge a pitcher intentionally threw at a hitter, they can eject him with or without any previous warning. If, after warnings are issued, the umpires are uncertain whether a pitcher is throwing at a hitter, they don’t have to eject anyone. Warnings don’t really serve any purpose, except to rile up the managers who simply don’t want to deal with them, and should have stopped being a thing decades ago.After Gimenez took first after being hit by a pitch, George Springer hit a ball right at Wrobleski that bounced off his leg and to catcher Will Smith. Unable to make a play, the Blue Jays had first and second with no one out. Unfortunately for Toronto, Nathan Lukes struck out and Vladimir Guerrero, after the pitching change, flew out.Tyler Glasnow replaces Justin Wrobleski in the fourth with runners on first and second and two outs.After Toronto's Andrés Giménez was hit by a pitch by Justin Wrobleski, the two exchanged words and the benches cleared.The Dodgers got one back in the fourth inning. Will Smith opened with a double and Freddie Freeman singled to put runners on first and third. Mookie Betts struck out but Max Muncy walked to load the bases. Teoscar Hernandez’s line drive to center field was caught on a diving play but Smith tagged home.2h ago / 9:10 PM EDTShohei Ohtani was not at his best tonight. That he got through the second without a run scoring was the result of luck and Bo Bichette only being able to run at 50%. There was a case for letting Ohtani open the third, but it was clearly a bad idea to have him in there facing Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Bichette again after George Springer reached to begin the inning. That’s not hindsight, either. His secondary pitches weren’t working. His command was shaky at best. That Ohtani came out and gave the Dodgers two scoreless frames while pitching on short rest for the first time in his career was quite the blessing. That Dave Roberts stuck with him after that might have cost his team the World Series.Since giving up a leadoff single to Shohei Ohtani in the first, Max Scherzer, whose velocity is up 1-2 mph on all of his offerings, has retired nine batters in a row, and he’s thrown just 28 pitches through three. The contact against Scherzer has been hard, but like it’s typically gone for the Dodgers of late, it’s not resulting in hits. Four of the seven balls in play have been hit in excess of 100 mph, but only Ohtani’s drive in the first has fallen in. As is, Scherzer seems very well position to get through at least five.The Blue Jays are on the board! George Springer led off with a single and was moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Nathan Lukes. A wild pitch by Shohei Ohtani advanced Springer to third and the Dodgers elected to intentionally walk Vladimir Guerrero.3-0 Blue Jays in the third.Shohei Ohtani has his velocity tonight, but he hasn’t had much luck locating his secondary pitches, which helps explain why four batters reached against him in the first two innings. With him having thrown 43 pitches through two, the Dodgers probably ought to start thinking about a batter-to-batter approach with him pitching on three days’ rest for the first time. Letting him face Vladimir Guerrero Jr. again if one of the first two batters reaches in the third would seem to be particularly dangerous.Scherzer retired all three batters he faced in the third, getting Enrique Hernández and Shohei Ohtani to fly out and striking out Miguel Rojas.Blue Jays load the bases but fail to drive in any runs Bo Bichette led off with a walk and Addison Barger hit a bloop single to shallow right field with no outs for runners on first and second. Unfortunately for Toronto, Alejandro Kirk popped out in foul territory and was followed by a flyout from Daulton Varsho. Ernie Clement’s single to right field moved all runners to load the bases but Bichette’s knee injury didn’t allow him to go home.We remain scoreless heading into the third.We already had the most bizarre pickoff of the season earlier in the World Series when Bo Bichette was caught off first base thinking a strike was ball four. Something maybe similar happened to end the top of the first with George Springer “taking off” from first on a 3-2 pitch to Vladimir Guerrero Jr with one out in the first. The pitch, a 99.6-mph fastball from Shohei Ohtani, was pretty obviously a called strike three for the second out of the inning, but Springer appeared to slow up on the basepath, perhaps either because he thought it was ball four or just knew he was a dead duck if it wasn’t. Then again, even if Springer had been in position to make it, he might have been sent back to first base since Guerrero, who seemed to have no idea Springer was going, very obviously got in the way of Will Smith’s throwing motion while crossing the plate on the strikeout.Max Scherzer has now retired six straight batters after striking out Max Muncy and getting Teoscar Hernandez and Tommy Edman to fly out. We head to the bottom of the second scoreless.Especially given that the MVP is making his first ever start on three days’ rest, an eyebrow was raised when Shohei Ohtani’s first fastball tonight to George Springer came in at just 96.6 mph. However, that was an isolated incident. The next was 98.8 mph, and his three fastballs in his strikeout of Vladimir Guerrero Jr. came in at 99.8, 100.2 and 99.6. Those were all better than his season average of 98.4 mph.George Springer led off with a hard-hit single to center field. Ohtani rebounded by striking out both Nathan Lukes and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. On the latter, Springer took off trying to steal and was out at second to end the inning.Shohei Ohtani led off with a line drive single to center field and moved to second after Will Smith grounded out. Ohtani advanced to third on a tag from second after a flyout from Freddie Freeman but Mookie Betts grounded out to short for the third out.Ohtani, batting for L.A., just took a ball high.3h ago / 7:34 PM EDTRoberts has led the Dodgers to the World Series for the fifth time since becoming manager in 2016. He is the 12th manager to appear in at least five World Series regardless of club, joining Hall of Famers Casey Stengel ; Joe McCarthy ; John McGraw ; Connie Mack ; Walter Alston ; Miller Huggins ; Tony LaRussa ; Joe Torre ; Bobby Cox ; and Sparky Anderson , as well as Bruce Bochy .4h ago / 7:04 PM EDT4h ago / 6:32 PM EDTThe Dodgers are the first defending World Series Champions to return to the World Series since the Phillies in 2009. Los Angeles is seeking to become the first club to win consecutive World Series championships since the Yankees won three straight titles from 1998 to 2000.Game 7 of the 2025 World Series marks the 45th Game 7 in World Series history and the 41st winner-take-all game in the Fall Classic. The last was in 2019 when the Washington Nationals defeated the Houston Astros. The Dodgers are 5-5 all time in Game 7 of a postseason series, including 5-4 in Game 7 of a best-of-seven series overall, and 2-5 in Game 7 of the World Series. The Blue Jays are 1-1 all time in Game 7 of a postseason series, winning the 2025 ALCS over the Mariners and losing the 1985 ALCS to the Royals.Greg Rosenstein is the sports editor for NBC News Digital.
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