Overview
- Los Angeles beat Toronto 5-4 in 11 innings at Rogers Centre to secure its third World Series title in six seasons.
- Miguel Rojas tied the game with a ninth-inning home run, his first of the postseason after entering without a hit in a month.
- Will Smith delivered the decisive two-out homer in the 11th inning, putting the Dodgers ahead for good.
- Yoshinobu Yamamoto worked 2⅔ scoreless innings of relief on short rest and induced an Alejandro Kirk double-play grounder to end the game.
- The outcome sharpened discussion of the Dodgers’ model, with credit to ownership, Andrew Friedman and Dave Roberts alongside renewed focus on payroll versus player development.