TORONTO -- The Dodgers were no strangers to the scene, played on repeat this week, from Joe Carter’s touch-’em-all triumph in 1993, when he lifted one over the left-field wall to win the World Series and ensured himself a lifetime of Canadian hospitality.

But on the night Carter reported to Rogers Centre for a pregame first pitch and donning of the Blue Jays homer jacket, it was the Dodgers who found that very wall to their liking.

Will Smith and Max Muncy both sent seventh-inning solo shots down the left-field line, straight into Carter country and straight into the hearts of the Jays and their fans to take down an otherwise great Kevin Gausman. And with Yoshinobu Yamamoto meeting the moment in Game 2 with another pristine, complete-game performance on the mound, those swats were the ga

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