The Dodgers will have had a week between games when they face the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 1 of the World Series Friday in Toronto, but historically that has proven to be a curse rather than a blessing.

Of the four previous times a team that has swept its league championship series and is facing one that played a seven-game series, the team playing the seven-game series has won every time, according to Sarah Langs of MLB.com.

The Blue Jays advanced to their first World Series since winning the second of two back-to-back titles in 1993 with a 4-3 victory in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series in Toronto Monday with George Springer hitting a three-run home run in the bottom of the seventh inning.

Toronto forced a decisive seventh game with a 6-2 victory in Game 6 Sunday in

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