Los Angeles Dodgers 4 – Toronto Blue Jays 11
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles Dodgers | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| Toronto Blue Jays | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | X | 11 | 14 | 0 |
W: Domínguez (2-0) | L: Snell (3-1)
Toronto Blue Jays 2025 Post-Season, World Game One
8:00 pm ET: Rogers Centre, Toronto, ON
Starting: Blake Snell vs. Trey Yesavage
Game Wrap / Box Score / Reddit LAD / Reddit TOR
Attendance: 44,353 | Time: 3:13 | Weather: 68°f (in-dome)
Section 125, Row 11, Seat 5 w/SS
Ceremonial first pitch: Cito Gaston
While I made it to some outstanding games with magical moments in the ALDS and ALCS, getting to the World Series was even more special. While I had already been to two World Series games in 2019, seeing games in Toronto with my current favourite team felt different.
While speculation about whether Bo Bichette would be available for this series has been building, I was still pleased to see him in the lineup, though surprised at second base, a position he hadn’t played since one game in AAA in 2019. While I guess the reasoning is that they would rather have the better fielder, Giménez, at shortstop, as an untested Bo at second seemed risky.
While the Dodgers opened the scoring with a run in the second and another in the third, Toronto tied things up in the fourth on a two-run home run by Dalton Varsho, making it clear that Toronto could get to Blake Snell, who wasn’t at his sharpest.
The Blue Jays finally got Snell out of the game in the sixth, when he loaded the bases with no outs. When all of the damage was said and done to the Dodgers’ bullpen, Toronto added nine runs in the inning, to take a commanding lead on the back of Addison Barger’s pinch-hit grand slam (a first in World Series history). While Blue Jays starter Trey Yesavage didn’t seem to have full command of his splitter, he managed to eat four innings (and strike out Shohei with bases loaded) before handing the game off to the bullpen in the fifth.
One interesting fact is that the nine runs the Blue Jays scored in the sixth were the most in a World Series game since 1968.
I couldn’t have asked for a better start to the World Series or a more action-packed Game 1. I think the Blue Jays fans at the game felt the same way, as the stadium was electric all evening. Without a doubt, one of the most fun things was the Blue Jays fans chanting “We Don’t Need You” at Ohtani in the ninth inning.
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