🔗 Share this article Los Angeles Dodgers Hold On in Canada to Force Decisive Game 7 in World Series This year's championship series is headed to a decisive seventh game following the Dodgers kept alive their title defense dreams alive on Friday with a 3–1 victory over the Blue Jays in Game 6. The defending champions halted Toronto’s late-game comeback with a dramatic final twin killing, silencing a Rogers Centre crowd that had arrived prepared to cheer the city’s first title in 32 years. Game 6 Recap Los Angeles generated all of their scoring in the third inning. With two away, Ohtani was purposely passed before Smith doubled to left field to bring home Tommy Edman. Freeman drew a walk to fill the bases, and Betts delivered with a two-run single to left, giving the Dodgers a 3–0 advantage. Betts’ hit snapped a postseason slump and revived the title holders' aspirations of becoming the first repeat World Series victors since the New York Yankees captured three consecutive from 1998 through 2000. Mound Duel Gausman had been nearly unhittable to that point, fanning six of the initial seven batters he confronted. He fanned eight through three frames, matching a Fall Classic mark, but the third-frame rally proved costly. The Toronto ace ended with eight strikeouts over six innings, allowing three earned runs on three safeties and two free passes. Yamamoto, meanwhile, was solid again under stress. The 27-year-old right-hander outdueled his counterpart for the second occasion in a week, giving up a single run on five base hits over six frames with six Ks. He improved to four wins and one loss this postseason with a 1.56 ERA. The only run against him resulted from Springer’s two-out base hit in the third inning, driving in Barger, who had hit a double earlier in the inning. That single offered a brief spark in his comeback to the lineup after sitting out two games with an side strain. Relief Effort After that, the Dodgers’ bullpen carried the load. Rookie Justin Wrobleski escaped a jam in the seventh, and another rookie Rōki Sasaki pitched into the ninth before hitting Alejandro Kirk to start the frame. Addison Barger followed with a two-base hit that got stuck under the left-center-field fence, obliging runners to hold at second and third base. Glasnow, the Dodgers' Game 3 starter, came on in relief and got a popout before Andrés Giménez lined to left. Enrique Hernández made the catch and threw to second base to retire Barger, clinching the win and giving Glasnow his first-ever successful save. Looking Ahead: Seventh Game The series now boils down to one game. Max Scherzer will start for the Blue Jays, making him the sole active hurler to pitch in multiple seventh games of the World Series after accomplishing that in the 2019 season with Washington. The veteran inked a single-season contract to pursue one more title and has been a outspoken presence throughout this postseason. The Dodgers, looking to become baseball’s first back-to-back champions in nearly a quarter-century, are projected to rely on Shohei Ohtani for a brief appearance.