We're here. Game 7. Everything is on the line. We haven't seen a Game 7 in the World Series since 2019 and hopefully it lives up to that one, which had a game-changing home run hit the foul pole in the seventh inning. In true baseball playoffs fashion, it wasn't close to the biggest star, either. Who might step up tonight? It's anyone's guess.

We do get a pitching matchup between two likely future Hall of Famers in Shohei Ohtani (though his pitching alone wouldn't be Hall of Fame level) and Max Scherzer . That hasn't happened often in Game 7. Jack Morris and John Smoltz in 1991, Sandy Koufax and Jim Kaat in 1965 and Waite Hoyt vs. Jesse Haines in 1926 were the others. Roger Clemens and Curt Schilling in 2001 were both Hall of Fame-caliber pitchers, but, well ...

Anyway, let's dive in

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