TORONTO — They were inevitable. Indomitable. And now indisputably historic.
These Dodgers were harassed by the Padres in the NL West. Pushed hardest by the Phillies in the NL playoffs. And spent 48 hours on the brink of elimination in Toronto. They almost went as far as you could go on Saturday night not to defend their title.
But in the end, the Dodgers responded as champions and so the MLB had a team go back-to-back for the first time since the three-peat Yankees of 1998-2000. They beat the Blue Jays 5-4 in 11 innings on Saturday night as, on a record salary of more than $400 million, veteran utilityman Miguel Rojas made the biggest swing of their season. Because after throwing six innings as a starter in a Dodger elimination game on Friday night, Yoshinobu Yamamoto returned and threw 2 ²/₃ innings of shutout relief.
And because Will Smith homered with two outs in the 11th, allowing the Dodgers to finally shake off the ruthless Blue Jays, who pushed Los Angeles in a way the Yankees couldn’t come close to last October. But now the Dodgers have thrust themselves firmly into dynasty conversations with a third championship in six years.
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