Los Angeles Dodgers send the World Series to a decisive seventh game after defeating Toronto Blue Jays in Canada.By News AgenciesPublished On 1 Nov 20251 Nov 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareThe Los Angeles Dodgers kept alive on Friday their hopes of becoming Major League Baseball’s (MLB) first repeat champion in 25 years, with a 3-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays that pushed the World Series to a decisive seventh game.With their backs against the wall and facing elimination for the first time this postseason, a Dodgers team that had no room for error got six solid innings from starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto while Mookie Betts and Will Smith provided the offence.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listToronto thought they tied the game on an inside-the-park homerun in the ninth on a bizarre play, when the ball was lodged at the bottom of the outfield fence where Dodgers outfielder Justin Dean immediately raised his hands to rule the play dead.A video review went the Dodgers’ way and determined it was a ground rule double, which left Toronto with runners on second and third with not outs.Ernie Clement then hit an infield pop and Andres Gimenez lined out to left before Kike Hernandez turned the double play when he fired the ball to second base to get Addison Barger out and end the game.The Dodgers victory put on hold, for one day at least, a coast-to-coast party in Canada, where fans of the lone MLB club are desperate to celebrate the Blue Jays’ first World Series triumph in 32 years. Toronto Blue Jays’ Bo Bichette is hit by a pitch by Los Angeles Dodgers’ pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto (not pictured) during the sixth inning in Game 6 [Ashley Landis/AP]Dodgers’ season on the line in Game 6As they were at the start of the season, the Dodgers came into the World Series as an overwhelming favourite and with few expecting the Blue Jays to produce much of a challenge and even fewer calling for it to go the distance. Advertisement With their season on the line, Los Angeles opened the scoring in the third on a run-scoring double by Smith, before Betts singled in a pair of runs to …
