They’re the best two words in sports: Game 7. The Los Angeles Dodgers pushed this 2025 World Series to its brink with a wild double play to end Friday night’s Game 6 with a 3-1 win over the Toronto Blue Jays. Now it’s all tied up, and it’s anyone’s championship to win.
Can the Dodgers build on their momentum from Game 6 and secure their second consecutive World Series win? Or will the Blue Jays get it done at home and win their first championship since 1993?
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Both teams will be starting big names on the mound. The Blue Jays will be turning to three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer, still going at the age of 41, while the Dodgers are going big with Shohei Ohtani on three days’ rest. It will be only the second time in his MLB career that Ohtani starts a game on less than five days’ rest.
Of course, you shouldn’t expect long starts from either pitcher. The nature of a World Series Game 7 means there is no reason to keep a pitcher in for the sake of preserving your bullpen. Both teams will have another starting pitcher waiting in the wings — Shane Bieber for Toronto and Tyler Glasnow for L.A. — and will be quick with the hook throughout the night.
It has been an impressive postseason for both teams and they have one last night to go all out in the first World Series Game 7 since 2019. Scherzer started that game too, for the victorious Washington Nationals.
Start time: 8 p.m. ET
Location: Rogers Centre | Toronto, Ontario
TV channel: Fox
Follow along with Yahoo Sports for live updates, highlights and more from Game 7 of the 2025 World Series:
Live12 updates
Sat, November 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM CDT
Jack Baer
Paul Molitor and Jack Morris throw out the first pitch, which is certainly a choice by the Blue Jays given that the latter was was suspended nearly a month from his job as a Tigers broadcaster after using a racist accent during a Shohei Ohtani at-bat in 2021.
Jack Baer
This was a very good Canadian national anthem.
Jack Baer
This was a very good American national anthem.
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Sat, November 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM CDT
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Sat, November 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM CDT
A week removed from a complete game and only one day after a stellar six-inning showing in Game 6, Yamamoto told Dodgers manager Dave Roberts that he can pitch if needed in Game 7.
It remains to be seen if the Dodgers actually call his name — Roberts hinted earlier Saturday the decision might depend on how his pregame work goes — but that’s ace stuff from the Dodgers’ best pitcher this season.
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Sat, November 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM CDT
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Sat, November 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM CDT
The four men whose right arms will decide the fate of this baseball season experienced World Series Game 6, a dramatic 3-1 Dodgers win, from four entirely different vantage points.
Shohei Ohtani, Shane Bieber, Tyler Glasnow and Max Scherzer — a star-studded quartet that has amassed 16 combined All-Star appearances, four Cy Young Awards, three MVPs (all Ohtani’s), 6,434 career strikeouts and more than $1 billion in contract value — are set to cover the majority of the innings in Saturday’s epic Game 7 showdown.
“I’m not sure [our] pitching situation, but Glasnow will be available. Everyone will be available,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said after his team held on to force one more game in this Fall Classic.
Scherzer will start Game 7 for Toronto. On Saturday afternoon, the Dodgers announced that they would counter with Ohtani as their starter.
Bieber, who got the ball in Game 4, will be available out of the bullpen for Toronto. For L.A., Glasnow will assume the bulk responsibilities out of the bullpen.
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Sat, November 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM CDT
Toronto pitcher Max Scherzer gets the start for a decisive Game 7, pitching opposite Shohei Ohtani. Scherzer returns to the mound for the second time this series, after the 18-inning epic in Game 3.
But the veteran starter has been in this position before: Scherzer, who was with the Nationals at the time, started in Game 7 of the 2019 World Series. Washington went on to win that game, giving Scherzer his first of two World Series Championships.
Will Scherzer be able to get his third championship on Saturday?
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Sat, November 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM CDT
Shohei Ohtani is starting Game 7 of the 2025 World Series for the Los Angeles Dodgers. It doesn’t get any bigger than that.
The Dodgers confirmed that their two-way superstar will take the ball hours ahead of the winner-take-all game on Saturday against the Toronto Blue Jays.
Ohtani will be pitching on three days’ rest, having thrown six innings and 93 pitches Tuesday in Game 4. That’s short rest by any modern pitching standard and extremely short rest in the case of Ohtani, who has pitched on fewer than five days’ rest only once in his MLB career.
Read more from Yahoo Sports’ Jack Baer here.
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Sat, November 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM CDT
The one change: Max Muncy and Teoscar Hernández have been flipped, with Muncy moving up to fifth and Hernández down to sixth. That packs the Dodgers’ top left-handed bats closer to the top of the order, on a night where the two guys getting bulk innings for the Blue Jays are both right-handed.
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Sat, November 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM CDT
George Springer, who has been dealing with injury but returned for Game 6 last night, is once again leading off for the Blue Jays.
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Sat, November 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM CDT
“Put the ball in play, and good things happen.”
It’s a classic hardball mantra that has proven especially poignant for the Toronto Blue Jays, the team that was the most difficult to strike out in the regular season and the one that has spent October tormenting pitchers. The Jays have consistently made contact via sizzling line drives and softly hit bloopers and every kind of batted ball in between, racking up runs en route to the doorstep of a World Series title.
But on Friday at Rogers Centre — in the final frame of a devastating 3-1 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers in World Series Game 6 — the Blue Jays put two tantalizing balls in play, only to be left coldly unrewarded. Had good things happened on Addison Barger’s laser beam to the outfield fence or Andrés Giménez’s flare into shallow left field, the city of Toronto might very well be planning a parade right now. Instead, Toronto and its fans will prepare for the unrivaled drama of a Game 7 on Saturday.