It’s Canada vs. the U.S. in the 2025 World Series.
After trailing the series 2-0 and then 3-2, the Toronto Blue Jays won back-to-back games at home against the Seattle Mariners to win the American League Championship Series, winning 4-3 in Game 7 on Monday night to set up a date with the reigning-champion Los Angeles Dodgers in the Fall Classic – and Alex Rodriguez thinks we’re in for a good one.
“I think, big picture, for the casual fan out there, I don’t think they understand how balanced and how good Toronto is. I think everyone understands the Dodgers’ greatness because they’ve been at this level for the last 10 years as the dominant franchise in the sport with the dominant player in Shohei Ohtani. But this is not David vs. Goliath. This is truly Goliath vs. Goliath,” the FOX Sports MLB Studio Analyst said after Toronto’s pennant-clinching Game 7 victory. “And don’t think Toronto isn’t a big market. They have 41 million people in Canada. That’s their fan base, and they watch and they watch closely.
“The reason why I think the Blue Jays have a shot is that this team [the Dodgers] goes to be off for six or seven days. They have not confronted dwell pitching. That is all the time one thing you need to be cautious for. They need to fly cross-country, they usually’re [the Blue Jays] very robust to beat. And now, they acquired their mojo again, they usually’re able to go.”
Previous to the ALCS, the Blue Jays, who gained an AL-high 94 video games within the common season, defeated the New York Yankees in 4 video games within the AL Division Sequence.
Toronto has been mashing on the plate this postseason, boasting a collective .296/.355/.523 slash line, with all three percentages (batting common, on-base share and slugging share) main the game. First baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has been hitting out of his thoughts, totaling six residence runs, 12 RBIs and boasting a .442/.510/.930 slash line, whereas shortstop Ernie Clement is hitting a whopping .429.
Dodgers vs. Blue Jays is ‘Goliath vs. Goliath’ 😳 Massive Papi, Jeter & A-Rod preview 2025 World Sequence
On the West Coast, the Dodgers swept the Cincinnati Reds within the NL Wild Card Sequence, beat the Philadelphia Phillies in 4 video games within the NLDS and swept the Milwaukee Brewers, who gained an MLB-best 97 video games within the common season, within the NLCS.
The Dodgers, who’ve a file $350 million payroll this season, rank second within the sport this postseason in all three slash line classes (.256/.340/.430). Nonetheless, the Blue Jays have scored 71 runs in 11 video games, whereas the Dodgers have scored 46 runs in 10 video games. For Los Angeles, it has primarily leaned on beginning pitching, with Blake Snell, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow and Ohtani having surrendered simply 10 runs throughout 66.0 innings pitched.
Catch Sport 1 of the 2025 World Sequence between the Blue Jays and Dodgers on Friday night time at 8 p.m. ET on FOX and the FOX Sports app.
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