Dodgers vs. Blue Jays World Series live updates, watch and score

⚾ Blue Jays 4, Dodgers 2 — Fourth inning

Top of the fourth: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. drew a leadoff walk from Tyler Glasnow. Bo Bichette then reached first when Dodgers second baseman Tommy Edman failed to corral an easily playable ground ball. Guerrero advanced to third on the error. Daulton Varsho then flied out to left field.

Alejandro Kirk followed with a three-run home run just over the ball in left-center field to give the Blue Jays a 3-2 lead.

Addison Barger hit a single to right field before Ernie Clement singled to the corner in right field to move Barger to third. Andrés Giménez then hit a sacrifice fly to deep center field to make it 4-2 Blue Jays.

Glasnow struck out George Springer to end the inning. Glasnow has given up five hits and four runs while striking out four and walking two over 66 pitches.

⚾ Dodgers 2, Blue Jays 0 — Through third inning

Top of the third: Andres Gimenez grounded out to second and George Springer grounded out to short. Tyler Glasnow then struck out Nathan Lukes.

Bottom of the third: Andy Pages popped out to second base. Shohei Ohtani then hit a 389-foot home run to the right-field corner to double the Dodgers’ lead. It was Ohtani’s seventh home run of the postseason.

Mookie Betts flied out to left field before Max Scherzer walked Freddie Freeman, who then stole second base (confirmed on review). Will Smith then singled to right field, but Addison Barger threw out Freeman at home plate to keep it a two-run game.

⚾ Dodgers 1, Blue Jays 0 — Through second inning

Top of the second: Bo Bichette led with a flare to center field for a single.

Then, in a very unusual sequence, Daulton Varsho thought he walked when he really took a called strike — on a pitch well above the zone and on a late call from home plate umpire Mark Wegner. Bichette, thinking Varsho walked, made his way to second, but Tyler Glasnow quickly threw the ball to Freddie Freeman to pick off Bichette.

Varsho walked three pitches later. Alejandro Kirk then singled to a line drive to right field before Addison Barger struck out. Ernie Clement lined out to center field to cap the frame.

Bottom of the second: Max Muncy flied out to right field.

Teoscar Hernández then hit a solo home run 412 feet into the Dodgers’ bullpen to give the Dodgers an early lead.

Scherzer struck out Tommy Edman and Kiké Hernández to end the inning.

⚾ Blue Jays 0, Dodgers 0 — Through first inning

Top of the first: Dodgers starting pitcher Tyler Glasnow struck out Toronto’s George Springer to start the game. Nathan Lukes popped out in foul territory to Kiké Hernández in left field before Vladimir Guerrero Jr. popped out to right field in a 1-2-3 inning.

Bottom of the first: Facing former Dodgers pitcher Max Scherzer, Shohei Ohtani bounced the ball over the wall in the right-field corner for a leadoff ground-rule double.

Addison Barger made a charging grab on a pop fly hit to shallow right field by Mookie Betts for the first out. Freddie Freeman popped out to third base. Scherzer struck out Will Smith to end the inning.

TORONTO — In theory, that could be him instead of Dave Roberts.

He could be the leader of the most expensive collection of talent in baseball history. He could be the two-time World Series champion manager. He could be part of a dynasty.

Don Mattingly said he never viewed his departure from the Dodgers in that context, however.

And when he returns to Dodger Stadium this week as the bench coach of the Toronto Blue Jays, he doesn’t expect to feel anything he wouldn’t feel in a World Series game played at any other stadium.

TORONTO — George Springer has become a hero in Toronto, where his five-year tenure with the team culminated in his go-ahead home run in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series last week.

But in Los Angeles, the veteran slugger remains a villain for his role on the 2017 Houston Astros team that beat the Dodgers in that year’s World Series — and was later found to have been stealing signs with their trash-can-banging system that year.

If you’re looking for a place to catch the Dodgers game, there’s a pizza place not too far from Dodger Stadium called LaSorted’s. If you know, you know. If you don’t know, this probably is not your place.

The walls are almost entirely covered in Dodgers memorabilia: yearbooks, programs, newspapers, magazine covers, advertisements, record albums, even a thermometer reading “1988 World Champions,” with portraits of Vin Scully, Don Drysdale and Ross Porter.

The menu includes a pizza called Mookie, with three cheeses, garlic, mushrooms, and mushroom cream.

TORONTO — Who would have guessed?

Who would have guessed that in a starting rotation of giants and alphas, the most important pitcher would be the diminutive 27-year old with the mischievous smile who plays the role of everyone’s little brother?

From a distance, Yoshinobu Yamamoto doesn’t look like someone who figures to contend in the coming years to be the best pitcher in the world.

He stands only 5-foot-10. He’s not mean in the way frontline starters sometimes are. He’s extremely considerate of others, even people who offer minimal, if any, transactional value — or more precisely, his focus and confidence in his work don’t blind him to their sensitivities.

Will Smith stared into left field, then turned to ignite the Dodgers’ dugout with a scream.

Max Muncy stared into left field, then turned to quiet the stands with a finger on his lips.

Two blasts, two reactions, one saved World Series.

Sputtering after making 17 consecutive outs, threatening to ruin more brilliance by Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the Dodgers suddenly erupted with two long balls in about two minutes Saturday, seventh-inning home runs by Smith and Muncy rescuing their game and quite possibly their season in fueling a 5-1 victory over the host Toronto Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre to tie the Series at one game apiece.

TORONTO — There might be no greater reminder of how far the Dodgers have come than the opposing pitcher on Monday. When the World Series returns to Dodger Stadium for Game 3, the starting pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays is scheduled to be Max Scherzer.

You may remember his brief tenure with the Dodgers four years ago, which ended with an elimination game in which Scherzer said he could not pitch. The Dodgers lost, the last domino in a cascade triggered by a front office that miscast its humans as widgets in a search for even the tiniest of edges.

Don’t just take my word for it. This was the word from Hall of Fame pitcher Pedro Martinez at the time: “Dodgers analytics dept really misused probably the best rotation in all of baseball. …They need to figure out a way to let starters be who they really are and let them pitch how they are used to.”

TORONTO — Will Smith had no choice but to ease his way into the postseason.

After missing the final three weeks of the regular season with a hairline fracture in his right hand, the Dodgers’ All-Star catcher sat out the National League wild-card series, then came off the bench late in the first two games against the Phillies in the division series.

He’s been making up for that lost time ever since.

Despite spotting his teammates those four starts, Smith’s .314 postseason average is best among Dodgers with at least 10 at-bats. He has 11 hits, the biggest of which came in the seventh inning Saturday when his tiebreaking solo homer sparked the Dodgers to a 5-1 win over the Toronto Blue Jays, evening the best-of-seven World Series at a win apiece.

Whether it’s wearing a specific jersey — or in the case of Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s interpreter, lucky boxers with a rabbit shooting a rainbow-colored laser out of its eyes — or making sure you’re watching the game from the spot on the couch, superstitions abound when it comes to sports, especially during the playoffs.

L.A. bleeds blue, and now that the Dodgers are facing off against the Toronto Blue Jays in the World Series, we want to hear your superstitions, actions and the lucky items you’re employing to help cheer the team on to victory.

Tell us your superstitions, and we might share your story in a future article.

Enter by filling out the form and tell us about your lucky item or whatever superstition or strategy you have to help the Dodgers win. You can even include a photo if you’re so inclined.

In the days leading up to Game 3 of the World Series, the Dodgers had considered shaking up the bottom of their lineup, and potentially dropping struggling center fielder Andy Pages to the bench.

But when the team announced its starters for Monday’s resumption of the Fall Classic, the team listed the same nine-man group its has used since the start of the National League Championship Series — Pages, included.

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Pages has started every game of this postseason but entered Monday batting just .093 in the playoffs with one extra-base hit, 11 strikeouts and no walks.

That slump had prompted manager Dave Roberts to acknowledge Sunday that moving Pages out of the lineup was “still on the table.”

During Sunday’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, with their only other outfield alternative, Alex Call, on the bench.

“I think in totality the at-bats have been better,” Roberts said. “I think for me, I just want to see him continue to fight and compete … I want to keep betting on him. I’m not saying that it’s in perpetuity, but tonight I’m going to bet on him until I don’t.”

TORONTO — Orel Hershiser sat down at a Pasadena restaurant on Saturday night, took control of the remote to a television showing Game 2 of the World Series, then watched in awe at a feat no Dodgers pitcher had accomplished since he achieved it 37 years ago.

In 1988, Hershiser had the kind of postseason run that didn’t feel replicable in baseball’s modern era. As the staff ace of that year’s World Series title team, he threw three consecutive complete games in an iconic October tear: One in the National League Championship Series, then two more in the Fall Classic.

In nearly four decades since, no Dodgers pitcher had thrown back-to-back complete games in the playoffs, and only José Lima in 2004 had even thrown one.

The Dodgers face the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 3 of the 2025 World Series at Dodger Stadium on Monday at 5 p.m. PDT. The best-of-seven series is tied 1-1.

The game will be televised on Fox, Fox One and Fox Deportes. Radio broadcasts in the Los Angeles area will be on 570 AM and 1020 AM (Español).

Here are the latest betting odds for Game 3 of the World Series:

Here’s the TV schedule for the rest of the series (all times Pacific):

Game 4: Tuesday, 5 p.m. at Dodger Stadium | Fox, Fox One, Fox Deportes

Game 5: Wednesday, 5 p.m. at Dodger Stadium | Fox, Fox One, Fox Deportes

*Game 6: Oct. 31, 5 p.m. at Toronto | Fox, Fox One, Fox Deportes

*Game 7: Nov. 1, 5 p.m. at Toronto | Fox, Fox One, Fox Deportes