More than 44,000 people showed up to the Rogers Centre on Halloween night, most of them dressed up in Toronto Blue Jays jerseys, primed for a party that instead turned into the baseball equivalent of a horror film.

The torture of a ninth-inning rally that was snuffed out almost as soon as it started ended in a 3-1 Dodgers victory in Game 6 that sends the Fall Classic to the terrifying do-or-die Game 7 in Toronto.

The anatomy of the rally-that-wasn’t will be something that Jays fans won’t want to think about for a while. It began with Alejandro Kirk getting hit by a pitch, and then Addison Barger launched a rocket to left field that, when it landed, wedged into the base of the wall.

Instead of scoring pinch runner Myles Straw from first base and trimming the L.A. lead to one, the extre

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