Key events
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 8th
Splitter in the dirt, Varsho pulls ahead in the count.
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 8th
Up and away – 1-1 to Varsho.
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 8th
Bichette hits a pop up in to foul ground – Betts is chasing, does he have room? Yes!
Two down! Wow!
It’s all up to Varsho who falls behind 1-0, chasing a ball low.
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 8th
Huge cut on a fastball upstairs! It’s 1-1! That was hot buttered popcorn!
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 8th
Splitter in the dirt – Bichette lays off. He’s up 1-0.
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 8th
Ball four!
Two on, one out and here comes Bo Bichette with the tying runs on base and the lead run in the batters box!
One big swing could bring the house down in Toronto!
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 8th
Now he lays off a borderline split, before fouling off a pitch to stay alive. It’s 2-2.
Vlady lays off a slider in – full count! This is crazy!
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 8th
Filthy splitter, Vlady swings and misses. That fell off the table!
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 8th
Sasaki starts Vlady off with a slider for a strike, and then comes back with a ball in the dirt. It’s 1-1.
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 8th
Lukes pops to center! one down! Here comes Vlady!
This is awesome!
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 8th
Sasaki fires a bullet for a strike. Full count.
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 8th
Upstairs – it’s 3-1 now. Great hitters count. How will it end?
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 8th
Sasaki misses away – it’s 2-1 to Lukes!
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 8th
Sasaki knocks down Springer with a fastball. He dusts himself off and steps back in. It’s 2-1 to the limited Jays slugger.
Now he squeaks a grond ball past first base! Wow! Incredible, and on a tough pitch as well.
Runner on and the crowd goes wild. What can Lukes do here in an absolutely mammoth spot?
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, top 8th
Hernandez can’t handle the fastball away! Strike three! Inning over!
It remains a two run ballgame and here comes Roki Sasaki to face the Jays in their half of the eighth. Top of the lineup for Toronto coming up.
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, top 8th
Tesoscar is jammed inside – it’s 1-2!
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, top 8th
Ball four! he misses with a fastball up.
It’s up to Teoscar Hernandez with bases loaded. He waves at the first pitch. 0-1 to the slugger!
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, top 8th
Slider away – Betts check. Did he go? Nosays first base umpire Will Little!
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, top 8th
Ball low and away. It’s 2-2!
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, top 8th
It’s 1-2 to Betts!
Pitching change
Here comes the hard throwing righty, Seranthony Domínguez, to face Betts in the biggest of spots. Toronto can’t let up right here with just six outs to play with.
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, top 8th
Freeman flies out to right and Ohtani stays put. Big out right there!
Now it’s up to Betts, who will be the star tonight if he comes through!
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, top 8th
Ohtani hits a fly ball to center – it seems harmless, but it keeps going and going and going and then it drops in! Wow! And he was totally off balance! The one out double gives LA their first base runner since the third inning! Can you believe that?
They walk Smith, two on and one out for Freeman in this hairy eighth for Toronto!
A big hit will get us closer to Game 7.
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, top 8th
Varland makes easy wok of Rojas who flies out to right and then here comes John Scheide to get his hurler. The lefty, Mason Fluharty, is on his way in to face Ohtani in a critical at-bat here with one down in the eighth.
The pitching lines
Both pitchers were fantastic – Yamamoto was just a bit better than Gausman, who was nearly perfect outside of that Dodger third inning.
Yamamoto
6IP 5H 1R 1ER 1BB 6K 0HR
Gausman
6IP 3H 3R 3ER 2BB 8K 0HR
Tremendous work by both pitchers in a huge spot.
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 7th
Gimenez waves at a fastball – strike three! Inning over! Wrobleski throws a blank in the seventh! Five left on base by the Jays tonight.
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 7th
Foul ball. It’s still 2-2. Battle with so much on the line here in the 7th.
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 7th
Gimenez lays off a breaking ball ow and away. 2-2.
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 7th
Gimenez is jammed and fouls the next pitch off. Still 1-2.
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 7th
The 0-2 fastball is high to Gimenez. It’s 1-2.
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 7th
Gimenez will not be pinch hit for. He takes a big cut for strike one then fouls off a pitch to go down 0-2 in the count. Meanwhile, Sasaki starts to warm for LA in the bullpen.
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 7th
Yamamoto is out! Credit that last inning for tiring out Yamamoto. So now Toronto has a crack at the dubious Dodger bullpen to try and use those last nine outs to win a World Series.
Justin Wrobleski has two quick outs! The first comes on a stellar bare handed grab by the second baseman Rojas. Then Barger strikes out!
Two down for Clement!
And he doubles! The tying run comes to the plate in the form of Gimenez and Mark Prior heads to the mound to speak to Wrobleski!
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, top 7th
Tommy Edman steps to the plate. FOX TV voices are already talking about the Ohtani DH/pitcher situation for Game 7. But we got a ways to go. Bit early for that boys!
Edman pops to center. Inning over!
It’s stretch time in Toronto!
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, top 7th
Varland blows away Hernandez! Two outs!
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, top 7th
OK, so Gausman is out six solid. Louis Varland is in. He gets Muncy straight away – a pop out to right retires the third baseman.
Hernandez is next.
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 6th
Varsho waves at a splitter – inning over! That ends the Blue Jay threat!
Yamamoto though six! But the Jays did escalate his pitch count.
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 6th
Foul ball, the count is 1-2 against Varsho. Yamamoto is up to 95 pitches.
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 6th
Yamamoto disengages and fakes a throw to second. Then he misses fo ball four! It’s a Yamamoto walk! Those you don’t see too often!
Two on, two out with Daulton Varsho at the plate! Everybody up in Toronto in this enormous, crucial moment.
It’s a 1-1 count.
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 6th
Fouled back. We do it again. Full count!
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 6th
Yamamoto misses way up again! The count is full!
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 6th
Bichette fouls off a pitch. It’s 2-2.
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 6th
2-1 to Bichette after Yamamoto misses badly high.
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 6th
Guerrero has a hit with one hand into the left field corner. It’s a two out double! Here comes Bichette, who is hella dangerous! Dodgers pitching coach Mark Pior checks in with Yamamoto.
Huge moment here with two outs for Toronto!
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 6th
No streaker luck for Lukes. He skies to center for the second out. It’s up to Vladdy in the Jays sixth.
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 6th
We have a streaker, or some sort of field invader, but we don’t get to see! Booooooo! Smart move by the crowd trying to throw off Yamamoto. Will it work? Lukes is ahead in the count 2-1.
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 6th
Yamamoto makes quick work of Springer, who grounds out to short. One down. Here’s Lukes.
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, top 6th
Hernandez grounds out to short. Gausman is through six with one costly frame in his ledger. He’s thrown 93 pitches.
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, top 6th
It’s 1-2 to Hernandez. The crowd is up! Pitch. – low and away.
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, top 6th
Betts grounds out to short for out no2. Now the ex-Jay Hernandez steps in with nobody on in what has been a quiet inning. So far.
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, top 6th
Freeman pops out to shortstop. That’s an easy out to start the sixth. Now Betts is back. Is he about to catch fire?
Dodgers 3-1 Blue Jays, bottom 5th
Barger watches a fastball fly by. And Yamamoto is just impossible to figure out. Two down.
Clement has an idea – he knocks one into the hole at short. Betts can’t handle it, and that’s a two out hit.
But then Gimenez skies to center.
Inning over. Yamamoto has thrown 75 pitches through five. Too efficient for Toronto.
