TORONTO — Spanning the globe from Tokyo to Toronto and the calendar from March to November, one game will determine how these Dodgers will be remembered – as the first team in a quarter-century to repeat as champions … or as expensive disappointments who failed to live up to the demands of their outsized expectations.

Clinging to an early lead by their fingertips and white-knuckling through an unexpected nine clutch outs from their bullpen, ending with a game-saving defensive play by Kiké Hernandez, the Dodgers kept their season alive, beating the Toronto Blue Jays, 3-1, in Game 6 on Friday night, forcing a Game 7 to decide the World Series on Saturday night.

The game started out looking like a replay of the retro-look Game 2 with the two starting pitchers, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Kevin G

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