All or nothing: Dodgers push Jays to Game 7

It was never going to be easy.

The Los Angeles Dodgers won Game Six of the World Series 3-1 Friday night, forcing the Toronto Blue Jays to a winner-take-all Game Seven. It will be the first time the Blue Jays will play in a Game Seven in the World Series.

Jays starter Kevin Gausman gave up three runs, which was all that the Dodgers needed to win. He still had a great game with 6.0 innings pitched, giving up only three hits and three runs, with eight strikeouts.

That wasn’t the problem for the Blue Jays.

The problem for them was that they couldn’t score any runs. The game was low scoring and, for part of the game, the team didn’t look like they had fight in them.

Toronto had eight hits, but they weren’t able to do anything about them. They left eight people on base. They had so many opportunities to score and they just couldn’t score.

The Jays batted 1-for-9 with runners in scoring position with only George Springer recording an RBI.

The other problem was the weird way the ninth inning went. In the ninth inning there could have been momentum. Addison Barger got up to plate against Tyler Glasnow and hit the ball to the wall. The only issue was the ball got stuck for a potential game tying score.

The umpires called it a ground rule double. Then Andres Gimenez went up to the plate and hit a pop up for the second out. That should have given a chance to the next guy, which was Springer, but Barger was caught off second base on the fly ball, and the Dodgers were able to manage to pick him off in a game-ending double play.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto was the starting pitcher for the Dodgers and was able to hold the Blue Jays to one run through 6 innings. He went 6.0 innings only giving up four hits, two walks and seven strikeouts. In his previous start against the Jays, he had a complete game.

In Game Seven, two future hall-of-famers will take the mound: Max Scherzer for Toronto and Shohei Ohtani for Los Angeles.

All or nothing.