Game Seven, the two best words in sports shine on what has been a World Series for the ages. This series between the Toronto Blue Jays and the reigning World Series Champions Los Angeles Dodgers has everything a baseball fan could ask for. You want amazing pitching performances, you got it; you want high-scoring games, you got that too. How about an 18 inning classic that put on display the reason these two teams are playing in the fall classic—well, you guessed it, that’s here too. Now, these two teams meet in a winner-takes-all Game Seven to crown either the first repeat champion in baseball in 25 years or to crown the Blue Jays as champions for the first time since 1993.
Game Seven got underway, and the two starters were settled in nicely and both got through the lineup with no trouble. In the third innings, the Blue Jays started to get to Shohei Ohtani. George Springer singled to lead off the inning, and after a sacrifice bunt and a wild pitch, he would end up at third base. With Vladimir Guerrero Jr. now at the plate, Ohtani intentionally walked Guerrero Jr. to put him on first to set up Bo Bichette to hit a three-run home run to put the Blue Jays on top in Game Seven. Max Scherzer, after starting strong, would give up a run on a sacrifice fly from Teoscar Hernández to make the game 3-1. Scherzer would continue until he got out of the game in the fifth innings, having possibly just thrown the final pitch of his career.
This game was far from over as the Dodgers continue to chip away at the lead in the sixth inning, as a Tommy Edman sacrifice fly made it 3-2. The Blue Jays wasted no time getting that run back after an Andrés Giménez double gave the Blue Jays a big run and made the game 4-2. In the top of the eighth inning, Max Muncey hit a solo home run to make the game 4-3. In the ninth, with the Blue Jays needing two outs to be Champions, Miguel Rojas, who hadn’t had a hit before this game for a month, made the biggest swing of his life and tied the game and made it 4-4, an unreal moment from an unlikely hero.
The Blue Jays loaded the bases in the bottom of the ninth and seemed to have won on two occasions when Dodgers catcher Will Smith barely got his foot back on the base to make the out, and then a near collision in the outfield from two Dodgers outfielders occurred. The Dodgers also loaded the bases at the top of the 10th but got nothing. In the top of the 11th, it was Will Smith who had the biggest swing of his life, hitting a home run to put the Dodgers on top 5-4. The Blue Jays didn’t go out easily as they got runners on the corners, but a ground ball double play ended not only one of the greatest games ever, but one of the best World Series ever.
