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Miguel Rojas #72, Enrique Hernández #8, and Mookie Betts #50 of the Los Angeles Dodgers celebrate after defeating the Toronto Blue Jays 3-1.

The Toronto Blue Jays didn’t have to win the World Series on Friday night. But what they couldn’t afford to do was go down in such a way that it convinced the Los Angeles Dodgers that they were back.

What’d the Blue Jays do? Convince the Dodgers that they’re back.

How else would you describe the wild sequence of events that cost the Jays their ninth-inning comeback?

With Toronto trailing by two runs, Dodgers closer Roki Sasaki was out for his second inning of work. He missed several pitches by large margins in the warm-up. You could feel the tension coming off him from the second deck.

Sasaki started by hitting Alejandro Kirk, who wa

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