TORONTO — It was already written. This series was meant to go seven games. Even though the Blue Jays seemed to be working on a World Series-winning rally , the unpredictability and randomness of baseball has a way of reeling it all back in.

It all had to happen this way for this moment to exist. Down two in the bottom of the ninth, Addison Barger laced a double off closer Roki Sasaki that should have easily scored pinch-runner Myles Straw from first. But the ball wedged at the bottom of the wall. Justin Dean , the center fielder, threw up his hands, alerting the umpires it was a ground-rule double. Straw and Barger, however, didn't break stride as both reached home plate.

"I know the rule," Dean said after the Dodgers ' 3-1 win in Friday's Game 6. "I mean, they have to r

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