What we’re watching
• Dodgers change the script: Miguel Rojas hit a ninth-inning home run to tie Game 7 of the World Series at the last moment as a thrilling game gets even more wild.
• Blue Jays had the lead: Toronto’s star second baseman Bo Bichette blasted the Blue Jays into the lead on a home run off Shohei Ohtani in the third. The Dodgers pulled one run back in each of the top of the fourth and sixth to narrow the lead.
• A tense affair: Andrés Giménez hit a RBI double to rebuild the Blue Jays’ cushion, but LA’s Max Muncy made things interesting with a mammoth home run to once again make it a one-run game. Rojas’ home run to tie the game in the ninth set the stage for even more drama.
• Score: It’s tied 4-4 in the bottom of the 9th.
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Yamamoto hits Alejandro Kirk and the bases are loaded!
From CNN’s Kyle Feldscher
Yoshinobu Yamamoto hits Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk on the forearm and now the bases are loaded!
The winning run is just 90 feet away and there’s only one out.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto enters Game 7 to try and keep the Dodgers in it
From CNN’s Kyle Feldscher
Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitches for the Dodgers in the bottom of the ninth.Patrick Smith/Getty Images
Now entering the game, with one out in the bottom of the ninth and two runners on base, is Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
He pitched Game 6 of this World Series. Which was yesterday.
This is unreal.
Runners are at first and second after a hit by Bo Bichette and a walk to Addison Barger.
To the bottom of the ninth we go with the score tied
From CNN’s Jacob Lev
The Dodgers’ Miguel Rojas rounds the bases after his clutch home run in the ninth inning.Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images
After the shocking Miguel Rojas solo shot knotted things up in the ninth inning, Jeff Hoffman got Shohei Ohtani to fly out and Will Smith to strike out.
To the bottom of the ninth we go with the Jays looking to potentially walk it off here with the title on the line.
How unlikely was that Rojas home run? He has struggled mightily in the postseason.
His hit is just the second game-tying or go-ahead home run in the 9th inning or later in a winner-take-all game in World Series history, according to ESPN.
Top 9th: Blue Jays 4, Dodgers 4
DODGERS TIE IT UP IN THE 9TH!
From CNN’s Jacob Lev
Miguel Rojas is welcomed at home plate by his Dodgers teammates after tying Game 7 in the top of the ninth.Gregory Shamus/Getty Images
Closer Jeff Hoffman stayed in to see this game out.
After a Kiké Hernández strikeout for the first out, Miguel Rojas hit a solo home run to tie the game and stun the crowd at Rogers Centre.
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