TORONTO -- To win the pennant for the first time in a generation, only to be lined up against a defending champion with the sport’s most loaded roster, is to be simultaneously touted and doubted, as these 2025 Toronto Blue Jays can attest.

But the Jays knew there was a soft underbelly to the Dodgers’ $320 million machine, and they perfectly executed their plan to expose it in a World Series Game 1 on Friday night that both silenced the skeptics and cranked up the volume in a raucous Rogers Centre.

After forcing Dodgers starter Blake Snell out of the game with the bases loaded and none out in the sixth, the Blue Jays’ deep lineup then pounced on the iffy Los Angeles bullpen with a nine-run frame that sent them to an 11-4 victory in front of the cacophonous crowd of 44,353 that came for Ca

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