The Blue Jays won Game 1 of the World Series with a historic inning. Here's how it happened.

The Blue Jays — thanks largely to a nine-run sixth inning that saw the third-most runs ever scored in a single World Series inning — took Game 1. It was a particularly shocking result given Los Angeles has allowed just five runs over their last five games.

Toronto will look to extend its series lead Saturday at 8 p.m. ET with Kevin Gausman on the mound. The Dodgers will send Yoshinobu Yamamoto to face him and help even the series.

Andy Pages has started all 11 of the Dodgers’ postseason games in center field, but it might be time for that to change. Having gone 0-for-3 with two strikeouts tonight, he’s now just 3-for-38 with one RBI in October. He’s struck out 11 times and failed to walk even once, though he has been hit by pitches twice.

Pages’ defense graded out very well this year, so it’s understandable that the Dodgers have stuck with him, especially with Tommy Edman’s ankle limiting him to infield duty. Assuming Edman still isn’t ready play center, the alternative to Pages is probably Alex Call in left and Enrique Hernández in center, which is a clear defensive downgrade. Hyeseong Kim can also play center, but the Dodgers haven’t given him even one at-bat this postseason.

It’s 11-4 Toronto as we go to the top of the ninth. The Dodgers are down to their final three outs, with the bottom of the order due up.

The Blue Jays still lead 11-4 as we head to the bottom of the inning.

After taking over for Blake Snell with the bases loaded and none out in the sixth, Emmet Sheehan retired just one of the four Blue Jays he faced, giving up two singles and a walk. He was charged with three runs in what ended up being a nine-run inning, taking his postseason ERA to 17.18.

With so many of the team’s traditional relievers banged up, Sheehan was very much a part of the Dodgers’ plans entering October. The 25-year-old excelled in limited regular-season action, posting a 2.82 ERA and an outstanding 89/22 K/BB ratio in 73 1/3 innings over 15 outings, 12 of which were starts. However, he’s now given up seven runs and eight hits over 3 2/3 innings in his four postseason appearances. He’s struck out two and walked three. That he can’t be counted on at this point is going to be a problem in games in which the Dodgers’ starters can’t get through six or seven innings.

We head to the eighth. Toronto leads 11-4.

No more damage for the Dodgers after the Ohtani homer. The Blue Jays lead 11-4 as we go to the bottom of the seventh.

The Jays sent 12 men to the plate and scored nine runs against Blake Snell, Emmet Sheehan and Anthony Banda in the sixth inning of the World Series.

Their 10 runs is the third most runs ever scored in an inning during the World Series. The 1929 Athletics overcame an 8-0 deficit in scoring 10 runs in the eighth inning of Game 4 in what ended a 10-8 victory. They then finished off the Cubs in Game 5. The 1968 Tigers also won the World Series after their 10-run inning in Game 6.

The Dodgers have cut into the lead thanks to a two-run homer from Shohei Ohtani in the top of the seventh. That’s Ohtani’s first career World Series home run.

The Blue Jays lead 11-4.

Toronto’s nine runs in the bottom of the sixth were the most in a World Series inning since 1968, per the Fox broadcast. It’s the third-highest total ever.

The Blue Jays are going nuts right now.

Two batters after a Vlad Jr. single, Alejandro Kirk hit a two-run shot to give Toronto an 11-2 lead. Daulton Varsho flied out to finally end the inning, but the Dodgers may already be looking ahead to Game 2 as we go to the seventh.

After several batters came up with the bases loaded, Addison Barger just cleared them.

Barger — in his first at bat after coming on as a pinch hitter — hit a grand slam to give the Blue Jays a 9-2 lead in the bottom of the sixth.

Before two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell opened this October by winning three straight starts with a 0.86 ERA in 21 innings, he was historically a middling postseason performer, going 4-3 with a 3.33 ERA in 10 starts and two relief appearances. He had never completed six innings before doing it all three times out this month.

The five-plus innings he threw tonight was the norm for him; he’d pitched between 4 2/3 and 5 1/3 innings in six of his 10 starts.

Andres Giminez hit a hard liner to right, scoring one more. It’s 5-2 Blue Jays, and now George Springer will come up with the bases loaded and no outs.

What an at-bat from Nathan Lukes, who battled back from 0-2 to draw a walk. It’s 4-2 Blue Jays. Still bases loaded, no outs.

Ernie Clement hits an RBI single and the Blue Jays take a 3-2 lead. The bases are still loaded for pinch hitter Nathan Lukes.

Blake Snell’s night is done after he hit Daulton Varsho to load the bases. Ernie Clement is up next for Toronto, and he’ll face Emmet Sheehan from the Dodgers’ bullpen.

The Blue Jays reliever retired the Dodgers’ side in order in the top of the sixth. Every clean inning from the bullpens will be a clutch one this series.

It’s 2-2 as we head to the bottom of the frame.

George Springer started the bottom of the fifth with a single, only for Davis Schneider to ground into a double play. Then Vlad Guerrero Jr. grounded out to end the inning. It’s 2-2 in the sixth.

Mookie Betts singled, but nobody on the Dodgers could take advantage.

It’s 2-2 as we head to the bottom of the fifth.

There wasn’t much heat on Dodgers hitters as the pitching thrived in all three postseason series to date, but Shohei Ohtani was really struggling before busting out with his three-homer game to finish off the NLCS and Freddie Freeman just hasn’t gotten much going, having knocked in only one run (on a solo homer) in 10 games coming into the World Series. He’s opened tonight going 0-for-2 with a walk despite getting more hittable pitches than anyone else in the Dodgers lineup.

Of course, Freeman could find it all at once, just as he did at this time in 2024. Limited by injury, he went 7-for-32 with one RBI in the NLDS and NLCS last year. All he did after that was homer in the first four games of the World Series, with the first of those being his walkoff grand slam in Game 1.

It was Daulton Varsho’s third homer of the postseason that tied up Game 1 of the World Series in the fifth. Add that to the 20 he hit in just 71 regular season games, and it’s easy to see that adding more swing and miss to his profile has paid off for the Gold Glove center fielder.

While the Jays as a whole excel at making contact, Varsho has gone the other way, striking out a career-high 28% of the time this year. But in doing so, his average exit velocity off the bat has jumped from a well below average 86.1 mph to 89.9 mph. It’s led to career-best hard-hit and home run rates, with his slugging percentage jumping from .389 in 2023 and .407 to 2024 to .548 this year. That .548 mark was ninth in MLB among the 309 players with at least 250 plate appearances.

Trey Yesavage’s night is over after four innings. He struck out five, but walked three and allowed four hits and two runs.

Daulton Varsho just hit a laser to centerfield to tie the game with a two-run homer. Varsho brought home Alejandro Kirk, who started the inning with a single. It’s 2-2 in the bottom of the fourth.

Trey Yesavage settled down in the top of the fourth, mowing through the bottom of the Dodgers’ lineup. Yesavage struck out two before Andy Pages flew out to end the inning. Los Angeles remains up 2-0.

It’s his mid-80s splitter thrown from his unusually high arm angle that’s made Trey Yesavage a phenom, but he’s struggled to find the pitch in Game 1. After using the splitter 26% of the time during his three regular-season starts and 32% of the time in his first three postseason starts, he’s tried just nine tonight, accounting for 13% of his 71 pitches. His spin rate on the pitch is about 10% slower than usual.

The good news is that Yesavage did throw two successful splitters while striking out Max Muncy to end the third, getting a called strike one and then a swinging strike three with a runner on third. We’ll just have to wait and see if it’s too little, too late, what with the Jays already having the bullpen going.

Vlad Guerrero Jr. singled with one out in the bottom of the third, but Bo Bichette followed with a grounder that the Dodgers turned into a double play.

Los Angeles leads 2-0 after three innings.

The Dodgers added one in a wacky third, but they left a runner on and lead 2-0.

Trey Yesavage has thrown 71 pitches and has three walks so far tonight.

The Dodgers are up 2-0 after Will Smith hit an RBI single with two on.

Freddie Freeman was caught on the basepaths, however, so Los Angeles now has a runner on second with two outs for Teoscar Hernandez.

In allowing one run and escaping a bases-loaded jam in the top of the second, Trey Yesavage threw 29 pitches, matching Blake Snell’s total in the first. Of those 29 pitches, just 11 were fastballs and they ranged from 92.6 mph to 94.7 mph, with six coming up short of 94 mph.

During his efficient first, Yesavage threw seven fastballs, ranging from 94.5 to 95.1 mph. That first inning was far more in line with his regular-season average of 94.7 mph. It’s something to watch with Yesavage pitching on four days’ rest for one of the first times of his career.

With two outs and a runner on first, George Springer hit a dribbler to the right side that allowed him to reach on an infield single, but Ernie Clement tried to reach third while the throw went to first, and he was thrown out by Blake Snell.

After a Tommy Edman infield single loaded the bases, Trey Yesavage struck out Andy Pages and forced a groundout from Shohei Ohtani, keeping the Dodgers to only one run in the second.

Both starting pitchers have now been extended a little earlier than both their managers would have liked.

Huge moment in this game in the top of the second.

Kiké Hernández got a slider over the middle and laced it into center for an RBI single. The Dodgers lead 1-0 and still have two runners on with one out.

After a walk, a fielder’s choice and a Max Muncy single, the Dodgers have runners on first and second with one out. Kiké Hernández is at the plate.

Using Kevin Gausman in relief in ALCS Game 7 against the Mariners gave the Jays their first tough rotation call of the postseason in Game 1 of the World Series: pitch Gausman, the Game 1 starter in both the ALDS and ALCS, on three days’ rest or give 22-year-old Trey Yesavage his first traditional start on four days’ rest.

While four days’ rest has been the norm for MLB starters for decades, some teams shy away from it now, particularly with their youngest pitchers. Yesavage, who is in his first pro season after typically starting once per week in college, worked a few times on four days’ rest in the minors, but he never threw more than 73 pitches on any of those occasions. He technically did make his first MLB start on four days’ rest, but the Jays set him up for that by having him throw just 34 pitches over three innings in his final Triple-A outing. His postseason starts thus far have come on seven, seven and five days’ rest, respectively.

What’s more, the Game 1 assignment also leaves Yesavage due to start Game 5 on four days’ rest. The Jays surely would have preferred to use him in Games 2 and 6, which would have put him on five days’ rest because of off days after Games 2 and 5. Now it’s Gausman, who will go in Game 2, who will benefit from the little extra time off.

Fortunately, Yesavage, who entered tonight having thrown 34 more innings this year than he did in his final season at East Carolina, hasn’t shown any sign of fatigue just yet.

After Alejando Kirk walked, Daulton Varsho hit a harmless fly ball to center and Blake Snell escaped a bases-loaded first inning without allowing any runs. Snell did throw 29 pitches, however, which is good news for a Blue Jays team that would love to get into the Dodgers’ bullpen.

Playing in his first game since early September, Bo Bichette just hit a single that moved Vlad Guerrero to third. First and third for the Blue Jays with two outs.

Vlad Guerrero Jr. has walked with two outs in the bottom of the first.

Great first inning for Trey Yesavage, who retired the Dodgers in order on 15 pitches.

How’s this for the first batter Yesavage faced? He struck out Shohei Ohtani.

The first pitch of the 2025 World Series is a fastball low and inside to Shohei Ohtani for a ball.

A three-time Cy Young winner, Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw announced earlier this year he would retire at the end of this season.

After missing last year’s World Series run due to injury, Kershaw is on this year’s roster for the championship round. He has made only one appearance in the playoffs so far, throwing two innings and allowing five runs (four earned) against the Phillies.

In his postseason career, Kershaw is 13-13 in 40 appearances (32 starts), with a 4.63 ERA and 213 strikeouts.

Although the nature of starting pitching has changed considerably in the playoffs, both the Dodgers and Blue Jays could need their starters to go extended innings during the World Series.

So far this postseason, both Los Angeles and Toronto have struggled when going to the bullpen. The Dodgers’ pen has a 4.48 ERA in the playoffs, while the Blue Jays have been over a run worse with a 5.52 ERA.

With both teams hitting the cover off the ball — especially the Blue Jays, who’ve hit 20 homers in the postseason — starting pitching could play a major role in a way it hasn’t the last few years.

The Blue Jays slugger hit .292 with a .381 on-base percentage and a .461 slugging percentage during the regular season. Those numbers are strong — but it's not like his playoff stats.

Guerrero, the son of the legendary Montreal Expos star Vladimir Guerrero, is batting .442 with a .510 OBP and .930 slugging percentage over 11 games this postseason. His six home runs just this year have tied a Blue Jays record for career postseason home runs.

If Toronto wins the World Series, he's going to be a major part of it.

Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani was not his best during the World Series last season.

He had only two hits in 19 at bats — a .105 average — and zero home runs in Los Angeles’ win over the Yankees. Ohtani had only one extra-base hit in the series, though he did score two runs.

Ohtani also did not pitch in any World Series games last year as he was still recovering from Tommy John surgery.

While the Dodgers are known for spending top dollar to acquire as much talent as possible, the Blue Jays didn’t exactly pinch pennies with their roster.

Toronto had the fifth-highest payroll in baseball this season, though it still spent nearly $140 million less than Los Angeles.

The combined payrolls of the two clubs is $652 million, according to FanGraphs financial data.

Trey Yesavage, at 22 years and 88 days old, will start Friday's game and become the second-youngest Game 1 starting pitcher in World Series history, according to MLB. Only the Dodgers' Ralph Branca (21 years, 267 days old in 1947) tops that.

Yesavage's patch to this point is remarkable: Earlier this year he was in Single-A.

Snell is a full decade older than his counterpart, 22-year-old rookie Trey Yesavage, and has the experience to boast.

The two-time Cy Young Award winner was 5-4 this season with a 2.35 ERA for Los Angeles. He won all three postseason games he pitched in, surrendering just six total hits over 21 innings pitched.

Yesavage, a rookie, boasted a 3.21 ERA with a 1.43 WHIP this season in just three MLB starts for Toronto. The 22-year-old has had an up-and-down postseason.

In his first start against the Yankees, he threw 5.1 innings of hitless baseball with 11 strikeouts and just one walk. In his next, however, he allowed 5 runs on four hits in a loss to the Mariners but bounced back with just 2 runs in 5.2 innings in Game 6 of the ALCS.

What version of Yesavage will we see in Game 1 of the World Series?

It's been 32 years since Toronto was in the championship round. That year culminated with one of the greatest home runs in MLB history as Joe Carter walked-off against the Phillies in Game 6.

NBC Sports' Vaughn Dalzell thinks MVP is the way to go.

"World Series MVP: Shohei Ohtani (+190), Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (+700)

"We may never see a player perform at the level that Shohei Ohtani has and with him pitching and hitting in the World Series — I love the value on Ohtani.

"Rather than take the Blue Jays at +185 to win the series, I would opt for Vladimir Guerrero Jr. MVP at +700. He’s been on fire, hitting .442 with 6 homers, 6 walks, and 12 RBI. Vladdy was born for October and Toronto should keep this series ultra-competitive with tons of runs being scored."