VIDEO SHOWS: REACTIONS AFTER GAME SIX OF WORLD SERIES BETWEEN TORONTO BLUE JAYS AND LOS ANGELES DODGERS SHOWS: TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA (OCTOBER 31, 2025) (MLB - Editorial use only. No monetisation) 1. (SOUNDBITE) (Japanese and English) LOS ANGELES DODGERS PITCHER YOSHINOBU YAMAMOTO ON HIS PERFORMANCE, SAYING: "The last outings I was in trouble early on, so today -- because I was trying to be a little more careful. And as the game went on, even though I had to pitch with runners on, I think I did a good job." 2. WHITE FLASH 3. (SOUNDBITE) (Japanese and English) LOS ANGELES DODGERS PITCHER YOSHINOBU YAMAMOTO ON COMING OUT OF THE GAME AFTER SIX INNINGS, SAYING: "In my mind, I was ready for another inning, but my job, the most important part was to protect our lead and then pass it to the guys coming behind me." 4. WHITE FLASH 5. (SOUNDBITE) (English) DODGERS MANAGER DAVE ROBERTS ON BEING HAPPY WITH CHANGES TO THE TEAM, SAYING: "I was. I was. First off, Miggy (Miguel Rojas) played the heck out of second base and made some huge plays. We were hoping for that kind of energy infusion tonight. We got that from Miggy. Obviously, the Kiké play, the double play, but in between ball was huge from Kiké (Hernandez) to Miggy to end the game. And then Mookie (Betts). I liked him. We talked about letting the game come to him a little bit and he got a huge hit for us." 6. WHITE FLASH 7. (SOUNDBITE) (English) DODGERS MANAGER DAVE ROBERTS ON YOSHINOBU YAMAMOTO, SAYING: "He was good. I thought Yamamoto was very good, actually. I just felt that Vladdy (Vladimir Guerrero Jr.) at-bat, the (Bo) Bichette at-bat, certainly gets out of that 6th inning. But I just felt that I wanted to give Robo (Justin Wrobleski) a clean inning, and I just didn't feel great about somebody potentially cleaning up his mess in the 7th, and I felt that was just -- Yamamoto did his job for the night, in my opinion." 8. WHITE FLASH 9. (SOUNDBITE) (English) DODGERS MANAGER DAVE ROBERTS ON GAME SEVEN, SAYING: "I feel great. I feel great. We're just, it's, we're going to leave it out there. I don't think that the pressure, the moment's going to be too big for us. We got to go out there and win one baseball game. We've done that all year. Everyone's bought in. So I don't know how the game's going to play out, but as far as kind of the moment, winning a game, I couldn't be more excited to get to sleep and wake up to play a baseball game tomorrow." 10. WHITE FLASH 11. (SOUNDBITE) (English) DODGERS PLAYER WILL SMITH ON GAME SEVEN, SAYING: "I'm excited. It's going to be fun. We work all year long to be in this situation to win a ball game and win a World Series. So it should be a fun one tomorrow." 12. WHITE FLASH 13. (SOUNDBITE) (English) BLUE JAYS MANAGER JOHN SCHNEIDER ON MESSAGE TO FANS FOR GAME 7, SAYING: "See you tomorrow. It's going to be electric here. These guys, it's business as usual, although it's coming down to one game. These guys are really good at kind of just turning the page. That will take awhile to kind of unpack. That's a wild ending. I love the way we played. Yamamoto was really good again. Had our chances with guys on base kind of as the game went on. But we're going to be ready to play tomorrow. Everyone's going to be ready to play. I expect them to be playing cards around 1:00 p.m. tomorrow and kind of shooting the shit with everyone. It's going to be fun here. But to the fans I say, see you tomorrow night, be loud, be rowdy. We're going to be ready to play." 14. WHITE FLASH 15. (SOUNDBITE) (English) BLUE JAYS MANAGER JOHN SCHNEIDER ON FACING YOSHINOBU YAMAMOTO, SAYING: "Yeah, I thought it was eerily similar to Game 2 between him and Gaus (Kevin Gausman). I don't want to overlook what Kev did too, coming out of the chute the way he did and just the one inning again. And they had a couple big swings. But I thought our at-bats were better. I thought we made him work. I did think getting him out after the 6th was going to benefit us. We were damn close to getting it done. But I thought the at-bats were better. We had some chances. I really think too, like, even in the first inning, kind of a hanging breaking ball to Vlad (Vladimir Guerrero Jr.), double plays helped them a couple times, but I thought our at-bats were better. He's a damn good pitcher." STORY: The Los Angeles Dodgers kept alive on Friday (October 31) their hopes of becoming Major League Baseball's first repeat champion in 25 years, with a 3-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays that pushed the World Series to a decisive seventh game. With their backs against the wall and facing elimination for the first time this postseason, a Dodgers team that had no room for error got six solid innings from starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto while Mookie Betts and Will Smith provided the offense. Toronto thought they tied the game on an inside-the-park home run in the ninth on a bizarre play, when the ball was lodged at the bottom of the outfield fence where Dodgers outfielder Justin Dean immediately raised his hands to rule the play dead. A review went the Dodgers' way and determined it was a ground rule double, which left Toronto with runners on second and third with no outs. Ernie Clement then hit an infield pop and Andres Gimenez lined out to left before Kike Hernandez quickly fired the ball to second base to get Addison Barger out for a game-ending double play. The Dodgers victory put on hold, for one day at least, a coast-to-coast party in Canada, where fans of the lone MLB club are desperate to celebrate the Blue Jays' first World Series triumph in 32 years. As they were at the start of the season, the Dodgers came into the World Series as an overwhelming favourite and with few expecting the Blue Jays to produce much of a challenge and even fewer calling for it to go the distance. With their season on the line, Los Angeles opened the scoring in the third on a run-scoring double by Smith, before Betts singled in a pair of runs to put Los Angeles ahead 3-0. Barger led off the bottom half of the third with a double before scoring on a George Springer single to get the Blue Jays within two. The Dodgers' starting rotation had been the team's strength this postseason but the Blue Jays picked it apart en route to grabbing a 3-2 lead in the World Series before Yamamoto once again took matters in his own hands. The Japanese ace, who threw complete-game gems in his previous two starts, struck out six batters and allowed one run on five hits across six innings before the Dodgers turned to a bullpen that has been their weak link all season. 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