LOS ANGELES—They’re ready for their World Series close-up, Mr. DeMille. And fade out.

Sunset Boulevard is actually some eight miles from Chavez Ravine. But it felt rather like delusional and dead Dodgers descending down the grand staircase in that classic movie as baseball flickers to black in these parts.

A Trey Yesavage production. Better than he’s ever been, which is saying a lot about the Blue Jays fledgling.

One way or another, that 6-1 loss to the Jays in Game 5 was the final game of 2025 played at Dodger Stadium. Anticlimactic, a fizzle for more than 52,000 fans. (A sizable Blue Jay supporting contingent though, making tons of noise.)

Which doesn’t mean the L.A. Dodgers are incapable of orchestrating a two-game counterpunch, clawing up the rock face of looming elimination

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