TORONTO(AP) — Dave Roberts needed few words to tell Shohei Ohtani he was starting baseball's biggest game: Game 7 of the World Series for the Los Angeles Dodgers against the Toronto Blue Jays.

“Shohei, we don’t have long conversations,” the Dodgers manager said Saturday, 2 1/2 hours before the final game of the year.

Max Scherzer was slated to be on the mound for Toronto, only the fourth pitcher to start multiple winner-take-all Game 7s. The Dodgers were trying to become the first repeat champion since the 1998-2000 New York Yankees and the Blue Jays were hoping for their first title since 1993.

Ohtani is batting .318 in the World Series with three homers, five RBIs and eight walks. The unprecedented two-way star is 0-1 with a 6.00 ERA after striking out six and walking one in his Game

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