"The Dynasty Dodgers. Shout it as loud as a Will Smith home run, ball soaring, arms flailing, blue immortality awaiting. Shout it as deep as a Miguel Rojas home run, impossible, unimaginable, unthinkable, forever. Shout it long enough to line a parade. The Dynasty Dodgers From the doom of a World Series Game 7 sucker punch, two outs from defeat, the Dodgers roared back in the final breaths of baseball's ultimate game Saturday to overtake the gritty Toronto Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre and steal a 5-4, 11-inning victory for their second consecutive World Series championship."
"And Rojas and Smith are certifiably Dodger icons after Rojas' home run tied the score in the ninth and Smith's home run gave them the lead and eventually decided the game in the 11th. The classic ended with an Alejandro Kirk double play grounder in the bottom of 11th induced by a third icon, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who finished with 2 ⅔ scoreless innings despite throwing 96 pitches 24 hours earlier."
""Special group of guys, man," Smith told FOX TV afterward. "We just never gave up.""
The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 in 11 innings to win Game 7 and secure a second straight World Series title. The Dodgers became the first team in 25 years to win consecutive championships and their third title in six seasons. Miguel Rojas hit a ninth-inning full-count slider from Jeff Hoffman for his second home run since August to tie the game. Will Smith hit an 11th-inning home run to give the Dodgers the lead. Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched 2 2/3 scoreless innings despite throwing 96 pitches the previous day and the game ended on an Alejandro Kirk double-play grounder.
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