Blue Jays fans distraught after dramatic World Series loss to Dodgers
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Toronto Blue Jays supporters were left heartbroken on Saturday night as their dreams of securing a World Series title after a 30-year drought were dashed in a dramatic showdown.

In the bottom of the ninth inning with the score tied at 4-4, the Blue Jays had the bases loaded and were just one run away from defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers at Rogers Centre, eyeing their first championship since 1993.

However, in a moment that stunned the home fans, Dodgers outfielder Andy Page made a remarkable catch, colliding with his teammate Kike Hernandez in the process. This spectacular play forced the game into extra innings, eventually leading to a Dodgers victory.

The tension escalated in the bottom of the 11th inning when Will Smith smashed a home run. Mookie Betts then executed a dramatic double play that secured back-to-back titles for Los Angeles, leaving Toronto fans in disbelief and sorrow.

Throughout the extra innings and as the game concluded, Fox Sports cameras captured the visibly devastated Blue Jays fans, who appeared stunned by the turn of events and their team’s heartbreaking loss.

LA overcame 3-0 and 4-2 deficits as well as escaping a bases-loaded jam in the ninth to become the first repeat champion since the 1998-2000 New York Yankees, and the first from the National League since the 1975 and ’76 Cincinnati Reds.

Toronto Blue Jays fans suffered heartbreak in Game 7 of the World Series

Supporters were left inconsolable

Toronto Blue Jays fans suffered the ultimate heartbreak in Game 7 of the World Series

Blue Jays supporters could not believe their eyes after their dramatic loss to the Dodgers

Blue Jays supporters could not believe their eyes after their dramatic loss to the Dodgers

Smith proved the hero after hitting a 2-0 slider off Shane Bieber into the Blue Jays’ bullpen in left, giving the Dodgers their first lead of the night.

‘You dream of those moments, you know, extra innings, put your team ahead – I´ll remember that forever,’ he said.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who threw 96 pitches in the Dodgers’ win on Friday, escaped the bases-loaded jam in the ninth and threw 43 pitches over 2 2/3 innings for his third win of the Series.

He gave up a leadoff double in the 11th to Vladimir Guerrero Jr., who was sacrificed to third. Addison Barger walked and Alejandro Kirk hit a broken-bat grounder to shortstop Betts, who started the title-winning 6-4-3 double play that ended baseball’s 150th major league season, the first that began and ended outside the United States.

Bo Bichette had put Toronto ahead in the third with a three-run homer off Shohei Ohtani, the two-way star pitching on three days’ rest after taking the loss in Game 3.

The Dodgers closed to 3-2 on sacrifice flies from Teoscar Hernandez in the fourth off Max Scherzer and Tommy Edman in the sixth against Chris Bassitt. Andres Gimenez then restored Toronto’s two-run lead with an RBI double in the sixth off Tyler Glasnow, who relieved after getting the final three outs on three pitches to save Game 6 on Friday.

Max Muncy’s eighth-inning homer off star rookie Trey Yesavage cut the Dodgers’ deficit to one run, and Miguel Rojas, inserted into the slumping Dodgers’ lineup in Game 6 to provide some energy, homered on a full-count slider from Jeff Hoffman.

Toronto put two on with one out in the bottom half against Snell, and LA turned to Yamamoto.

Toronto supporters watched their team narrowly miss out on a first championship since 1993

Toronto supporters watched their team narrowly miss out on a first championship since 1993

Dodgers star Will Smith proved the hero after hitting the title-winning home run in Canada

Dodgers star Will Smith proved the hero after hitting the title-winning home run in Canada

He hit Kirk on a hand with a pitch, loading the bases and prompting the Dodgers to play the infield in and the outfield shallow. Daulton Varsho grounded to second, where Rojas stumbled but managed to throw home for a forceout as catcher Smith kept his foot on the plate.

Ernie Clement then flied out to Pages, who made his jumping, backhand catch on the center-field warning track while crashing into Hernandez.

Seranthony Dominguez walked Betts with one out in the 10th and Muncy singled for his third hit. Hernandez walked, loading the bases. Pages grounded to shortstop, where Gimenez threw home for a forceout. Guerrero fielded a grounder to the right side and threw to pitcher Seranthony Dominguez covering first, just beating Hernandez in a call upheld in a video review.

The epic night matched the Marlins’ 3-2 win over Cleveland in 1997 as the second-longest Series Game 7, behind only the Washington Senators’ 4-3 victory against the New York Giants in 1924.

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