🔗 Share this article Los Angeles Dodgers Survive in Canada to Set Up Winner-Take-All Game 7 in World Series The championship series is going to a final Game 7 after the Dodgers kept their title defense hopes intact Friday night with a 3–1 win over the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 6. The defending champions halted Toronto’s ninth-inning rally with a thrilling game-ending double play, silencing a Rogers Centre crowd that had come ready to cheer the city’s championship in over three decades. Sixth Game Summary Los Angeles produced all of their offense in the third inning. With two outs, Shohei Ohtani was purposely passed before Smith hit a two-bagger to left to bring home Edman. Freddie Freeman earned a base on balls to load the bases, and Betts delivered with a two-RBI hit to the opposite field, handing the Dodgers a three-run lead. Betts’ hit snapped a postseason slump and revived the defending champions’ aspirations of being the initial back-to-back World Series winners since the Yankees won three straight from 1998 to 2000. Pitching Duel Kevin Gausman had been nearly unhittable to that stage, fanning six of the first seven batters he faced. He fanned 8 through three frames, matching a World Series mark, but the third-inning barrage proved decisive. The Toronto ace finished with 8 Ks over six frames, allowing three earned runs on three safeties and two walks. Yamamoto, meanwhile, was steady again under stress. The righty outpitched Gausman for the second time in a seven days, allowing one run on five hits over six frames with six strikeouts. He improved to 4–1 this postseason with a 1.56 ERA. The lone score against him resulted from Springer’s two-out base hit in the third, driving in Barger, who had hit a double previously in the frame. Springer’s hit offered a brief spark in his comeback to the starting nine after sitting out a pair of contests with an side strain. Bullpen Effort From there, the Los Angeles relievers carried the load. Rookie Justin Wrobleski escaped a tight spot in the seventh, and another rookie Rōki Sasaki pitched into the ninth before hitting Alejandro Kirk to start the frame. Addison Barger then hit a two-base hit that got stuck under the left-center-field fence, obliging runners to stay at second and third base. Tyler Glasnow, the Dodgers' Game 3 starting pitcher, entered in relief and got a popout before Giménez hit a line drive to left. Hernández caught the ball and fired to second to retire Barger, sealing the victory and giving Glasnow his first-ever save. Next Up: Seventh Game The series now comes down to one game. Max Scherzer will start for the Blue Jays, making him the only living pitcher to pitch in more than one seventh games of the World Series after accomplishing that in 2019 with the Nationals. The 40-year-old signed a single-season contract to pursue another championship and has been a outspoken presence throughout this postseason. The Dodgers, looking to be baseball’s initial repeat champions in nearly a quarter-century, are projected to lean on their two-way star for a brief appearance.