Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto gestures throughout the fourth inning in Recreation 6 of baseball’s World Sequence in opposition to the Toronto Blue Jays, on Friday in Toronto.
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TORONTO — Yoshinobu Yamamoto beat Toronto for the second time in every week, slumping Mookie Betts hit a two-run single in a three-run third inning and the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers held off the Blue Jays 3-1 on Friday evening to drive the World Sequence to a decisive Recreation 7.
Yamamoto was not fairly as sharp as in his Recreation 2 four-hitter, the primary World Sequence full recreation in a decade. He lasted six innings and allowed solely a third-inning RBI single by George Springer, who returned after lacking two video games with an harm to his proper aspect.
Rookie relievers Justin Wrobleski and Roki Sasaki mixed for six outs earlier than starter Tyler Glasnow got here out of the bullpen to flee a ninth-inning jam and rescue the Dodgers.
Glasnow wanted solely three pitches to do it. With runners on second and third, he received Ernie Clement to pop up his first supply on the infield for the primary out. Andrés Giménez then hit a line drive to left area that Kiké Hernández become a game-ending double play.
Hernández caught the ball on the run in shallow left-center and fired to second base, the place Miguel Rojas made a troublesome choose of a one-hop throw to double off Addison Barger.
Max Scherzer will begin Recreation 7 on Saturday evening for the Blue Jays. He additionally began the final World Sequence Recreation 7, getting a no-decision when Washington received the 2019 title over Houston.












