John Schneider delivers a simple 2-word message to Toronto after World Series loss
The Toronto Blue Jays they came heartbreakingly close to ending their 32-year championship drought, just to see The Los Angeles Dodgers are completing a dramatic comeback to win in 2025 World Series in Game 7 at the Rogers Center. Los Angeles won 5-4 in 11 innings, winning back-to-back titles for the first time since the New York Yankees in 1998-2000.
Toronto manager John Schneiderreflecting on the loss in a postgame FOX interview with Ken Rosenthal, he said he just had his first team meeting of the year tonight and a two-word message to the players: “thank you” (h/t Sportsnet’s Ben Nicholson-Smith).
Game 7 was a tight, back-and-forth battle, with the Blue Jays taking an early lead Bo Bichette broke Ohtani’s triple in the third inning. The Dodgers sacrificed Teoscar Hernandez and Tommy Edman to take a 3-2 lead before Andres Gimenez extended Toronto’s lead with an RBI double in the sixth.
Max Muncie’s solo homer in the eighth inning cut the deficit to one, and Miguel Rojas tied the game in the ninth with a dramatic home run from Jeff Hoffman, sending the contest into extra innings. In the 11th, the Los Angeles catcher Will Smith launched a solo homer off Shane Bieber for the first lead of the game, ultimately giving the Dodgers their third championship in five years and ninth overall.
Los Angeles right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto became the MVP of the World Series after a historic performance that ended by closing the championship. Pitching on zero days’ rest, Yamamoto entered Game 7 in the ninth inning in favor of Blake Snell and escaped a bases-loaded jam with a forceout and Andy Page’s game-saving catch.
He retired the 10th inning and, after Will Smith’s leadoff homer in the 11th, induced a World Series-ending double play against Alejandro Kirk. In the series, Yamamoto pitched 17 2/3 innings, allowing just two runs (1.20 ERA) on nine hits, walking one and striking out 14, completing a postseason in which he went 5-1 with a 1.45 ERA over 37 1/3 innings.
Holding onto a 3-2 series lead wasn’t enough, as the Blue Jays fell short of their first championship since 1993 as Los Angeles overcame a multiple deficit and a bases-loaded ninth on Saturday night.
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