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By Bradford Doolittle
Oct 30, 2025, 01:11 AM ET
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MLB Writer and ESPN.com NBA Writer and Analyst. Has been with ESPN since 2013
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers’ bats, normally a strength, have gone quiet. Quiet in October is not what they expected, especially in a World Series. Anemic offense led to a crushing 6-1 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays for a 3-2 World Series deficit. After Monday’s historic 18-inning win against the Jays to take the lead in the series, the Dodgers mustered only three runs in the Tuesday and Wednesday losses.
Slumps are never welcome, least of all when a team is this close to a second consecutive World Series crown. “We’re just really not doing too much offensively, and whenever we get opportunities, we’re not capitalizing,” Dodgers’ Enrique Hernandez said. “We’re going through one of those funks right now. It’s just really bad for it to happen in the World Series.”
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If you remove the Dodgers’ offensive outburst in the Wild Card romp over the Reds, Los Angeles is hitting just .224 in the postseason with a .372 slugging percentage, numbers for good (253rd and 441st). The Dodgers are hitting .201 against the Blue Jays in the five games and just .200, with no extra-base hits, with runners in scoring position.
The nadir might have been Game 5, when Dodgers rookie Trey Yesavage dominated for seven innings and four hits and a walk while striking out 15 times. We had only one at-bat with a runner in scoring position.
“The last couple days have been tough on us,” Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman said. “But we’ve been here before.”
It was an altogether unsightly performance in the game to defend bits. The defense failed to convert two key double-play opportunities in the first. Blue Jays starter Blake Snell was feisty from the start, the first team to start the game with back-to-back hits and twice getting to Snell’s first three home.
The Dodgers hit the map with four wild pitches, two by Snell and one apiece from Edgardo Henriquez and Antonio Banda. In other words, not the kind of response you’d expect from a team that won the title a year ago and entered the series 9-1 in Toronto.
“We’re down to elimination and we got to clean the slate and find a way to figure out a Game 6. Pick up the pieces and see where we are.”
The Blue Jays mostly dominated LA’s All-Star lineup, save for Shohei Ohtani’s big Game 3 when he homered twice and reached base nine times in a marathon contest. That continued on Wednesday despite Roberts’ revamped lineup: The first four hitters — Ohtani, Will Smith, Mookie Betts and Freeman — went 1-15 with eight strikeouts.
With the Blue Jays about six-game streak in the series, something’s got to change, even with Yoshinobu Yamamoto headed to LA for Game 6 in Toronto on Friday. Of course, the Dodgers’ veterans have seen it all and are nowhere close to panic mode. But they know they can’t put it all on Yamamoto’s shoulders.
“Yoshi’s going to show up, take that mound and do his job,” Hernandez said. “We just got to do a little better job of driving in run composition. Man, it feels like when we get into traffic, we just find ways to not get ourselves out of traffic.
“You can obviously see that those guys are finding ways to hit, to move the ball forward. We’re not doing a good job of it. Last season, the Dodgers fell behind the Padres 2-1 in the best-of-five division series and rallied to win en route to the World Series, which Freeman cited as a recent example of the challenge the Dodgers face at the moment.
But to win two, you have to win one first.”
Robert said to win one in a battle (before). But again, it comes down to one game. We took a lot away in the game and we found a way to go the other way.”
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