Dodgers beat Blue Jays 5-4 in 11 innings to clinch World Series

The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 in 11 innings on Saturday night at Rogers Centre to clinch the World Series, ending the Blue Jays' season and handing veteran Max Scherzer a dramatic, if ultimately incomplete, Game 7 start. Scherzer, the 41-year-old three-time Cy Young winner, started for Toronto and allowed one run over 4.1 innings before exiting to a standing ovation in the fifth inning.

Schrzer struck out three, surrendered four hits and walked one in a performance that manager John Schneider called exactly what the team needed. Dodgers starter Shohei Ohtani left in the third inning after giving up a three-run home run to Bo Bichette. The game was decided in the 11th when a Dodgers play produced a double play that ended the contest. Toronto had a late opportunity when a pinch runner, Isiah Kiner-Falefa, was inches from scoring on a ninth-inning play that would have been a walk-off run.

Schrzer, who pitched through the 2025 season on a one-year contract, said after the game that he does not expect this to be his last appearance. "It is going to take some time to give a full answer to that, but there is no way that was my last pitch," he told...