Armchair manager: How the Blue Jays can get the final win they need

TORONTO — This week at Dodger Stadium, after losing an agonizing, 18-inning heartbreaker in hostile territory, creating a 2-1 World Series deficit while ceding home field advantage to a modern-day dynasty and heavily-favoured juggernaut built upon more financial might and analytical savvy than any organization in the sport, the 2025 Toronto Blue Jays did what they always do and overcame all odds, swinging their way off the ropes and staging an improbable rally to move within a win of the franchise’s first championship in over three decades.

With two chances to finish the job at home this weekend, the Blue Jays have some margin for error and don’t need to act with quite the level of desperation as the Dodgers, who, despite their current predicament, remain baseball’s most dangerous, talent