Nov 1, 2025; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto (18) celebrates with teammates after defeating the Toronto Blue Jays in sport seven of the 2025 MLB World Collection at Rogers Centre. Necessary Credit score: Kevin Sousa-Imagn Photographs The Los Angeles Dodgers will return to the scene of excessive drama Monday evening once they go to the Toronto Blue Jays for the sequel to the 2025 World Collection.
The three-game set can have hassle dwelling as much as the basic sequence that took seven video games — and 11 innings within the remaining contest — to determine, with the Dodgers profitable 5-4 in Toronto to repeat as champions.
“Very thrilling,” Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts mentioned. “I believe the followers there need a piece of us. I believe it’ll be an amazing sequence. I believe we’ll see (Max) Scherzer, which is all the time enjoyable. I believe we’ll see (Kevin) Gausman, which goes to be a problem. That staff — they are a robust, gritty staff, so it will likely be good to get again as much as the Rogers Centre.”
Toronto supervisor John Schneider implied this sequence can have a bit further oomph.
“I used to be joking with the blokes that it is not a three-game rematch of the World Collection, it is simply three video games you have to cowl and attempt to win,” he mentioned.
The sequel can have a well-recognized starting as Scherzer (1-0, 1.50 ERA) — Toronto’s Sport 7 starter on Nov. 1 — is scheduled to begin on Monday because the Blue Jays attempt to snap a four-game shedding streak. They took a 3-0 street loss on Sunday to undergo a three-game sweep by the Chicago White Sox.
In the meantime, the Dodgers rallied from a 6-1 deficit on Sunday for an 8-6 street win to finish a three-game sweep of the Washington Nationals. Shohei Ohtani homered and hit the go-ahead sacrifice fly for Los Angeles.
The final time Scherzer confronted the Dodgers, he allowed one run and 4 hits over 4 1/3 innings in Sport 7 of the World Collection. The appropriate-hander additionally pitched 4 1/3 innings in Sport 3, permitting 5 hits and three runs in a sport the Dodgers received 6-5 in 18 innings.
Within the common season, Scherzer — in his nineteenth season — has a 5-6 report and a 2.38 ERA in 19 profession video games (17 begins) towards the Dodgers.
Justin Wrobleski (0-0, 6.75 ERA) is slated to begin Monday for the Dodgers. Toronto confronted the left-hander as a reliever 4 instances within the World Collection. He allowed no runs and 4 hits over 5 innings.
In a single regular-season look towards Toronto in 2025, he allowed no runs and one hit in two-thirds of an inning of a 5-4 loss on Aug. 10.
There have been some tense moments in Sport 7 when he hit Toronto’s Andres Gimenez with a pitch.
“They’ll boo me, and it’ll be actually superior,” Wrobleski mentioned. “If I had been a Toronto fan, I most likely would not like me both.”
Sport 7 ended when Toronto catcher Alejandro Kirk grounded to Los Angeles shortstop Mookie Betts to begin a double play.
Neither will play within the rematch sequence. Kirk is on the injured record with a fractured left thumb, suffered when he was hit by a foul tip on Friday within the tenth inning of 5-4 loss in Chicago. Catcher Brandon Valenzuela was promoted from Triple-A Buffalo and singled in his first main league at-bat on Sunday.
Betts was placed on the IL with a strained proper indirect, incurred Saturday in Los Angeles’ 10-5 win at Washington. Hyeseong Kim was recalled from Triple-A Oklahoma Metropolis to share shortstop duties with Miguel Rojas.
On the Toronto harm entrance, Addison Barger left Sunday’s sport with a sore ankle, including to the Blue Jays’ woes.
Toronto was 0-for-6 with runners in scoring place within the contest.
“We have to begin enjoying in sync,” Schneider mentioned Sundday after the loss. “At the moment we had been preventing an uphill battle offensively, which is uncharacteristic of us.”
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