Dodgers return to Toronto, trounce Blue Jays in underwhelming World Series epilogue
What could've felt like World Series Game 8 was instead a 14-2 shellacking by the Dodgers.
TORONTO — In some ways, it still feels like October here. There’s a bite in the air, a chill in the wind, the same as there was five months ago for the most unforgettable ballgame anybody in attendance had ever witnessed. Torontonians stroll the streets with long coats, gloves, scarfs and Jays caps.
A bar one block from the ballyard boasts a sign that reads “We Run October. ” The sky is overcast, the Rogers Centre dome is closed, and the Los Angeles Dodgers are in town. And so, ahead of this relatively meaningless April matchup, it was impossible to not dwell on World Series 2025 Game 7 — what happened that night and what didn’t.
Neither Miguel Rojas nor Yoshinobu Yamamoto started Monday, yet both were dominant topics of pregame conversation. The two skippers, Toronto’s John Schneider and L. A.
’s Dave Roberts, tried to downplay the significance of this Fall Classic rematch, but the ghosts of November were too weighty, too lasting for Monday’s contest to mean nothing. “A few short months ago, it was bedlam in here,” Schneider said beforehand. “So, looking forward to it.
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