Blue Jays fined for walking Shohei Ohtani with Will Smith’s double for Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers they have no choice but to go to Rogers Center in Toronto and win back-to-back games if they want to defend their World Series title.
That’s the dilemma they found themselves in when they lost Games 4 and 5 at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers they looked like they were in big trouble going into Game 6 because they weren’t hitting. Their collective decline was particularly noticeable among the men at the base. When Blue Jays pitcher Kevin Gausman started the game with two perfect innings, it didn’t look like anything would be different in Game 6. But Will Smith changed that for the Dodgers in the top of the third.
Smith fanned runners on first and second and turned around Gausman’s sinkr and lined it into the left field corner for a double. That goal brought Tommy Edman and sent Shohei Ohtani to third base.
Mookie Betts made a serious contribution two batters later. Weakening Dodgers shortstop he was frustrated during the World Series, but he got a fastball he liked from Gausman and lined it to left-center for a base hit that drove in two runs. Suddenly, the Dodgers took a 3-0 lead with ace pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound.
A three-run first inning for the Dodgers in the World Series
The Dodgers had a streak in the World Series, but the third inning marked the first time in six games that they scored as many as three runs in an inning. A relatively big inning took some of the load off the Dodgers and they seemed to be more relaxed.
The Blue Jays were able to get a run in the bottom of the third inning off Yamamoto, but the Dodgers also induced two double plays in the first four innings.
2025-11-01 01:43:00
