World Series Game 7 live updates: Dodgers, Blue Jays scoreless in third inning

Shohei Ohtani has his velocity tonight, but he hasn’t had much luck locating his secondary pitches, which helps explain why four batters reached against him in the first two innings. With him having thrown 43 pitches through two, the Dodgers probably ought to start thinking about a batter-to-batter approach with him pitching on three days’ rest for the first time.

Letting him face Vladimir Guerrero Jr. again if one of the first two batters reaches in the third would seem to be particularly dangerous.

Scherzer retired all three batters he faced in the third, getting Enrique Hernández and Shohei Ohtani to fly out and striking out Miguel Rojas.

'Mad Max' has allowed just one hit so far.

Bo Bichette led off with a walk and Addison Barger hit a bloop single to shallow right field with no outs for runners on first and second. Unfortunately for Toronto, Alejandro Kirk popped out in foul territory and was followed by a flyout from Daulton Varsho. Ernie Clement’s single to right field moved all runners to load the bases but Bichette’s knee injury didn’t allow him to go home.

Andrés Giménez came up with the bases juiced and two outs but struck out. 

We remain scoreless heading into the third. 

We already had the most bizarre pickoff of the season earlier in the World Series when Bo Bichette was caught off first base thinking a strike was ball four. Something maybe similar happened to end the top of the first with George Springer “taking off” from first on a 3-2 pitch to Vladimir Guerrero Jr with one out in the first.

The pitch, a 99.6-mph fastball from Shohei Ohtani, was pretty obviously a called strike three for the second out of the inning, but Springer appeared to slow up on the basepath, perhaps either because he thought it was ball four or just knew he was a dead duck if it wasn’t. Then again, even if Springer had been in position to make it, he might have been sent back to first base since Guerrero, who seemed to have no idea Springer was going, very obviously got in the way of Will Smith’s throwing motion while crossing the plate on the strikeout.

Max Scherzer has now retired six straight batters after striking out Max Muncy and getting Teoscar Hernandez and Tommy Edman to fly out. We head to the bottom of the second scoreless. 

Especially given that the MVP is making his first ever start on three days’ rest, an eyebrow was raised when Shohei Ohtani’s first fastball tonight to George Springer came in at just 96.6 mph. However, that was an isolated incident. The next was 98.8 mph, and his three fastballs in his strikeout of Vladimir Guerrero Jr. came in at 99.8, 100.2 and 99.6. Those were all better than his season average of 98.4 mph.

George Springer led off with a hard-hit single to center field. Ohtani rebounded by striking out both Nathan Lukes and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. On the latter, Springer took off trying to steal and was out at second to end the inning. 

0-0 after 1 inning. 

Shohei Ohtani led off with a line drive single to center field and moved to second after Will Smith grounded out. Ohtani advanced to third on a tag from second after a flyout from Freddie Freeman but Mookie Betts grounded out to short for the third out. 

Scoreless after half of one inning. 

Ohtani, batting for L.A., just took a ball high.

Roberts has led the Dodgers to the World Series for the fifth time since becoming manager in 2016. He is the 12th manager to appear in at least five World Series regardless of club, joining Hall of Famers Casey Stengel (10); Joe McCarthy (9); John McGraw (9); Connie Mack (8); Walter Alston (7); Miller Huggins (6); Tony LaRussa (6); Joe Torre (6); Bobby Cox (5); and Sparky Anderson (5), as well as Bruce Bochy (5). 

Roberts is the ninth manager to lead a single club to the World Series at least five times.

The Dodgers are the first defending World Series Champions to return to the World Series since the Phillies in 2009. Los Angeles is seeking to become the first club to win consecutive World Series championships since the Yankees won three straight titles from 1998 to 2000.

Game 7 of the 2025 World Series marks the 45th Game 7 in World Series history and the 41st winner-take-all game in the Fall Classic. The last was in 2019 when the Washington Nationals defeated the Houston Astros.

The Dodgers are 5-5 all time in Game 7 of a postseason series, including 5-4 in Game 7 of a best-of-seven series overall, and 2-5 in Game 7 of the World Series.

The Blue Jays are 1-1 all time in Game 7 of a postseason series, winning the 2025 ALCS over the Mariners and losing the 1985 ALCS to the Royals.