TORONTO – It might have been easier – for the mind and soul – if the Toronto Blue Jays simply offered token resistance in the bottom of the ninth inning of World Series Game 6, down 3-1 and assured of a Game 7 and November baseball, regardless.
Succumb meekly to Los Angeles Dodgers rookie closer Rōki Sasaki, and the postgame vibes would’ve been muted but rote after right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto mastered them for the second time in eight days.
Get ‘em tomorrow. Sometimes you just gotta tip your cap. All hands on deck in Game 7.
Alas, these are the 2025 Blue Jays, MLB leaders in comeback wins, incapable of anything but big feelings and bigger goals that almost always, against the odds, come to fruition.
Yet this time, one sinking line drive and the ultimate youthful mistake on the basepaths left one of the greatest hitters in postseason history on deck, robbed of the chance to tie or win the game. And now everyone – the Dodgers and Blue Jays, a collection of 44,710 title-hungry Toronto fans, the hundreds of cops deployed in anticipation of championship bedlam in The Six – must come back tomorrow night and try again.
