The Dodgers won a thrilling Game 6 of the 121st World Series in a spectacularly pitched, 3-1, game over the Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre and and in doing so–forced a seventh game on Saturday.
The Dodgers offensive eruption came in the third inning as Will Smith smacked an RBI double and Mookie Betts followed with a sharp two-run single that put the Dodgers up 3-0.
Down 3-1, Toronto threatened in the ninth inning, getting runners to second and third base with no outs after a double from Addison Barger. After Tyler Glasnow retired Ernie Clement on one pitch, Andrés Giménez flew into a game-ending double play as Kiké Hernandez caught the ball in left field and fired a bullet to second base before Addison Barger could get back.
Ballgame!
• Game 7 of the 2025 World Series will take place tomorrow night at Rogers Centre, marking the 45th Game 7 in World Series history and the 41st winner-take-all game in the Fall Classic.
• 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.
• Toronto is the sixth franchise to play in multiple Game 7s in a single Postseason, joining the 2017 Astros, 1991 Braves, 1987 Cardinals, 1986 Red Sox and the 1985 Royals. The Astros and Royals are the only clubs to win multiple Game 7s in the same season.
• The 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 1998-2000.
• Max Scherzer will take the ball for Toronto in Game 7, marking the second time he will start Game 7 of the World Series after also starting Game 7 in 2019 for the Nationals.
• Scherzer will become the fifth pitcher to start multiple Game 7s in World Series history, joining Hall of Famer Bob Gibson (3x: 1964, 1967 & 1968); Hall of Famer Burleigh Grimes (2x: 1920 & 1931); Lew Burdette (2x: 1957 & 1958); and Don Larsen (2x: 1957 & 1958)
• Los Angeles has now won three consecutive games when facing elimination in the Postseason, winning Games 4 & 5 of the 2024 NLDS and Game 6 tonight.
• Tonight was the first game-ending double play in World Series history in which an outfielder had a putout or an assist.
• The intentional walk to Ohtani in the third inning was his fifth of the World Series, matching Albert Pujols (2011) for the second-most in a single Fall Classic.
• Kevin Gasuman struck out the side in the first inning, struck out five of the first six batters he faced and eight of the first nine.
• According to Elias, he became the eighth pitcher in World Series history to strike out five of the first six batters of the game and the first since Blake Snell in Game 6 of the 2020 Fall Classic.
• Gausman’s eight strikeouts through the first three innings matched Corey Kluber for the most in World Series history after Kluber also struck out eight of the first nine batters he faced in Game 1 of the 2016 World Series.
• He became the fifth pitcher with at least seven strikeouts through the first three innings of a World Series game, also joining Hall of Famer Bob Gibson (1968 G1); Orlando Hernandez (1999 G1); and Hall of Famer Randy Johnson (2001 G2).
• Yoshinobu Yamamoto tossed 6.0 innings of one-run ball, allowing five hits with a walk and six strikeouts.
• It was his third consecutive game in which he allowed just one run, becoming the first pitcher since Matthew Boyd in 2024 to make three consecutive Postseason starts of one-or-zero runs within a single Postseason.
• Yamamoto is just the sixth pitcher to throw at least 6.0 innings, permit one-or-zero runs and tally six strikeouts in at least three consecutive starts in a single Postseason.
• Freddie Freeman has reached base safely in each of his last 21 Postseason games dating back to Game 1 of the 2024 World Series, surpassing Chris Taylor (2017 NLDS G1-2018 NLCS G2) for the longest on-base streak in Dodgers’ Postseason history.
• Vladimir Guerrero Jr. roped a double in the sixth inning, marking his 28th hit of the Postseason, second-most all-time in a single Postseason, trailing only Randy Arozarena (29 H in 2020).
• Guerrero’s 31 career hits in the Postseason are now fourth-most in Blue Jays history, surpassing Joe Carter.
• With a single in the fifth inning, Ernie Clement extended his hitting streak to 12 games, marking the longest hitting streak of the 2025 Postseason.
• His 12-game hitting streak is tied for the longest in Blue Jays Postseason history within a single Postseason, matching Pat Borders in 1992.
• Clement has hit safely in 15 of his 17 contests this Postseason, batting .397 (27-for-68) with five doubles, a triple, a homer, nine RBI, a walk, 12 runs scored, a .403 on-base percentage, a .544 slugging percentage and a .947 OPS.
• Addison Barger went 2-for-4 with a pair of doubles and scored the Blue Jays only run of the night on George Springer’s RBI single in the third inning.
• With Shohei Ohtani in the Dodgers’ starting lineup, Yoshinobu Yamamoto starting on the mound and Roki Sasaki entering in relief in the eighth inning, tonight’s game marks the second in World Series history to feature three players born in Japan and the first time all three players have appeared for the same club. It previously occurred in Game 3 of the 2007 Fall Classic, when Daisuke Matsuzaka and Hideki Okajima appeared for the Red Sox and Kazuo Matsui appeared for the Rockies.
Compiled by Bill Lucey
Source: MLB Press Office
November 1, 2025
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