"Down two runs in the eighth inning, Max Muncy got things started with a home run. Then, with the Dodgers down to their final two outs in the ninth, Miguel Rojas tied things up with a solo home run. Yoshinobu Yamamoto, on zero days' rest, then entered the bottom of the ninth inning with two runners on and one out. He loaded the bases with a hit by pitch, before securing a ground ball force out at home and a fly ball that Andy Pages caught while tackling Kiké Hernanez."
"In the 11th inning, it was Will Smith hitting the biggest home run of his life to give LA a 5-4 lead. Then, in the bottom of the inning, the Blue Jays had runners at the corners when Yamamoto generated a ground ball to Mookie Betts that became the series-clinching double play."
""What the Celtics and Lakers were able to do, and Michael Jordan's Bulls, was to bring in new fans - fans that were, 'Oh, I don't know about the NBA,' Johnson said, 'but the play was so good, and the Celtics and Lakers and Bulls were so dominant, people said, 'Oh man, I want to watch them.' 'It's the same thing happening here.'""
An average of 51 million viewers across the United States, Canada and Japan watched Game 7 of the 2025 World Series, marking the most-watched MLB game in 34 years. The Dodgers and Blue Jays delivered a highly dramatic contest featuring Max Muncy's eighth-inning home run, Miguel Rojas' ninth-inning game-tying solo homer, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitching on zero days' rest to induce critical outs after loading the bases. Will Smith hit an 11th-inning go-ahead home run, and Yamamoto generated the series-clinching ground ball to Mookie Betts. Team dominance attracted renewed viewer interest.
Read at Dodgers Nation
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]