Baseball-Dodgers force Game Seven in World Series with win over Blue Jays

TORONTO :The Los Angeles Dodgers kept alive on Friday their hopes of becoming Major League Baseball's first repeat champion in 25 years, with a 3-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays that pushed the World Series to a decisive seventh game.

With their backs against the wall and facing elimination for the first time this postseason, a Dodgers team that had no room for error got six solid innings from starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto while Mookie Betts and Will Smith provided the offense.

"We got to go out there and win one baseball game. We've done that all year. Everyone's bought in," said Dodgers manager Dave Roberts.

"I don't know how the game's going to play out, but as far as kind of the moment, winning a game, I couldn't be more excited to get to sleep and wake up to play a baseball game tomorrow." Toronto thought they tied the game on an inside-the-park home run in the ninth on a bizarre play, when the ball was lodged at the bottom of the outfield fence where Dodgers outfielder Justin Dean immediately raised his hands to rule the play dead.

A review went the Dodgers' way and determined it was a ground rule double, which left Toronto with runners on second and third with no outs.

Ernie Clement then hit an infield pop and Andres Gimenez lined out to left before Kike Hernandez quickly fired the ball to second base to get Addison Barger out for a game-ending double play.

'TOUGH BREAK'

The Dodgers victory put on hold, for one day at least, a coast-to-coast party in Canada, where fans of the lone MLB club are desperate to celebrate the Blue Jays' first World Series triumph in 32 years.

"I haven't seen a ball get lodged ever. Just caught a tough break there," Blue Jays manager John Schneider told reporters.

"That will take awhile to kind