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They said we ruined baseball," Johnson said. "Well, I guess we didn't.

That slump had prompted manager Dave Roberts to acknowledge Sunday that moving Pages out of the lineup was "still on the table." During that night's workout, Kiké Hernández also spent a noticeable amount of time fielding fly balls in center. However, the Dodgers decided against the change for now, keeping Hernández in left, Pages in the No. 9 spot playing center, and their only other outfield alternative, Alex Call, on the bench.

It started as it would end, with Freddie Freeman, and then it just kept happening: Dodger after Dodger in extra innings would smoke a potential walk-off home run off of Toronto Blue Jays near-hero Eric Lauer, almost directly to center field, the stadium would roar, and then the ball would die just at the warning track, snagged, inevitably, by Daulton Varsho. It was funny, and then it was funny, and then it was ... funny? And then it was the bottom of the 18th inning.

The biggest play was the last one. With one out in the ninth and Toronto's Addison Barger at second base, representing the tying run, Andrés Giménez sliced a broken-ball liner to left field. The Dodgers' Kiké Hernández got a great jump on the ball and made a running catch, followed by a poor throw to second in an attempt to double off Barger. The ball took a tricky hop but Rojas stuck with it, catching the ball behind his left knee and hanging on as the retreating Barger knocked him to the ground. Rojas rolled on his back and pumped him right arm three times in celebration.

More travel challenges for #Dodgers after Game 5 in LA, players' plane this time. Delayed 2+ hours before takeoff due to mechanical issues. Meant they arrived in time for morning traffic, long ride from airport- Bill Plunkett (@billplunkettocr) October 31, 2025 Dodgers ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto will be on the mound on Friday coming off consecutive complete game outings for the defending champions. In those two outings, he has gone 18 innings, allowed just two earned runs and one walk, and struck out 15 batters.

A year ago tomorrow , the Zacatecas native suffered a heart attack and mild stroke in the moments after seeing his Dodgers win Game 2 of the World Series against the New York Yankees. He spent three days in a medically induced coma at St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood and regained consciousness to news from jubilant nurses that the Dodgers had won the championship.

"They need to bounce back," Roberts said of Sheehan and Banda. "I wouldn't say concerning. Anthony's been very good for us, and he left a breaking ball up. But, yeah, with the construct of the pen, we're going to need 'em, and so we got a long way to go, a lot of baseball, but they certainly got to make good pitches."

'Bout 250 Mexican kids in 10 years gonna have to explain why they named Shohei Rodriguez,' one viral post on X quipped after Shohei Ohtani hit three home runs, pitched six shutout innings and struck out 10 Brewers in the NLCS-clinching game. The prediction may not be so far off: Nameberry, the world's largest baby naming site, saw a 1,000% increase in searches on the name Shohei just this week.

Vesia has been one of L.A.'s most trusted relievers for the past five seasons, pitching to a 2.68 ERA and a 3.16 SIERA in 270 innings since 2021. Only two pitchers have thrown more innings in relief with a lower ERA in that time: Emmanuel Clase and Raisel Iglesias. Vesia's brief trip to the injured list earlier this year with an oblique strain was the first of his Dodgers tenure, and his stuff looked every bit as nasty upon his return.