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Yoshinobu Yamamoto celebrates with his Dodger teammates after defeating the Blue Jays 5-4 in the 2025 World Series finale.

The emblematic modern defeat of a Toronto team – the one that sent the city into a spiral of permanent doomsaying and self-pity – was a hockey loss in the first round of the playoffs. What’s Toronto going to do with choking a World Series away with two outs to go?

The Jays had Game 7 won. The crowd was certain of it. As it ended, just after midnight, you could tell that not a one of them could accept the result.

What do you like about baseball? Because this Game 7 had it. Ridiculous catches, a bench-clearing non-brawl, terrible gaffes, emotional farewells, huge hits, had it in the bag, let it out, got it back in, out again, back in again, back out. There wa

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