Well, it’s been a hell of a World Series. Honestly, it’s been a hell of a Postseason. I can’t promise it’s true, but it feels like we’ve seen far more heroics this year than normal. Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end, and tonight is the end of Major League Baseball in 2025. Game 7 of the World Series between the Dodgers and the Blue Jays.
As with every winner-take-all game, there will be all hands on dkec and we will almost certainly see some players attempt something they’ve never
tried before. That said, the Blue Jays will ask Max Scherzer, pitching in his fourth World Series for a fourth team, to get them off on the right foot as he so often has before in search of his third ring. Royals fans will remember 2025 Scherzer as the one who set them on the path to the only game where they scored 20+ runs this season. The 40-year-old last pitched in this series in the 18-inning affair that was Game 3. He didn’t pitch as well as he would have liked, but he was long out of the game before his team finally blew it in the 18th inning.
The Dodgers haven’t officially announced a starter, but they’re expected to ask Shohei Ohtani, the best player in baseball, to at least kick things off. It would be his first time pitching on three days’ rest since April 2023 when he was pulled after only 31 pitches before coming back to dominate the Royals with 11 strikeouts in seven scoreless innings a few days later.
The whole series has been focused on the Dodgers trying to keep their starter in the game as long as possible, while the Blue Jays simply try to get to literally any relievers. It hasn’t always worked out and Game 3 hero Will Klein should be available to pitch for the Dodgers once again, but expect both teams to rely on starters in relief roles as much as physically possible, tonight. Last night, the Dodgers even turned to Tyler Glasnow after Roki Sasaki allowed the Jays to put the tying run in scoring position with no one out last night. He managed to get out of it. One would imagine that even so, we’ll see him again tonight, along with potentially Blake Snell. In fact, last night’s starters, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Kevin Gausman, might be the only two pitchers who are completely off-limits in this one. And even then, I wouldn’t guarantee that either of them would stay off the mound should circumstances call for them.
No one knows what will happen tonight, but if it’s anything like the rest of this postseason, it’s going to be exciting and dramatic and might even birth a few new stars while brightening others.
I can’t wait.
