Overview
- Toronto beat Seattle 4-3 in Game 7, with George Springer's three-run shot in the seventh inning delivering the pennant and the club's first World Series trip since 1993.
- Game 1 is Friday at 8 p.m. ET at Rogers Centre, where the Blue Jays hold home-field advantage after finishing one win better than Los Angeles in the regular season.
- ALCS MVP Vladimir Guerrero Jr. leads the postseason with six home runs and a .442/.510/.930 line, powering a lineup hitting .296/.355/.523 across 11 playoff games.
- The reigning-champion Dodgers enter with a rested rotation of Shohei Ohtani, Blake Snell, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Tyler Glasnow that has yielded 10 runs in 66 postseason innings.
- Toronto's bat-to-ball profile—71 runs and just 64 strikeouts this postseason—presents a different test for Los Angeles, and shortstop Bo Bichette is expected to return for the World Series.