Let’s talk about Game 4, because if you blinked after the sixth inning, you missed the moment the 2025 World Series turned into a street fight. After that 18-inning carnival ride in Game 3 — a marathon that chewed through bullpens, chewed through fans’ nerves, and spit out the kind of baseball hangover that takes days to recover from — you might’ve expected Game 4 to be a sleepy, low-octane rebound. But baseball, folks, doesn’t follow scripts. It flips the page, sets it on fire, and scribbles something wild in the margins.
Toronto Explodes in the Seventh and Doesn’t Look Back
The Blue Jays — who walked into Tuesday’s game without George Springer and with questions swirling around Shane Bieber’s postseason stamina — not only showed up, they stole the Dodgers’ lunch money and left the stadium whistling “O Canada.”
Shohei Ohtani, doing double-duty as the Dodgers’ headline act and fan-favorite demigod, looked solid for six innings. That is, until the seventh inning came crashing in like a rogue wave. Back-to-back hits from Daulton Varsho and Ernie Clement cracked open the game, and suddenly Ohtani was watching from the dugout as Toronto’s offense exploded for four runs. Boom — 2-1 game turns into 6-1, and just like that, the Dodger faithful had that uh-oh feeling in their stomachs.
Bieber Steps Up When It Matters Most
But hold on, rewind a little. Because we need to talk about Shane Bieber. The guy had something to prove. Two rocky starts in October and now he’s supposed to outduel Ohtani on the road in a must-win game? Yeah, right. But that’s exactly what he did. Five-and-a-third innings, just one run allowed, and two strikeouts against Ohtani himself? That’s not just a bounce-back — that’s a middle-finger-to-the-narrative kind of performance. That’s why the Blue Jays went out and got him at the trade deadline. That’s what aces do when the lights are brightest.
Bassitt Emerges as Toronto’s World Series Weapon
Don’t forget about Chris Bassitt. The guy’s been a starter basically forever, and now he’s in the bullpen mowing hitters down like he was born for October relief work. Two more scoreless innings in Game 4, including a dance with Mookie Betts in the eighth? Bassitt is making the switch from rotation to relief look like a walk in the park — except it’s October, the Dodgers are hunting runs, and there’s no room for error.
So no Springer? No problem. A shaky Bieber résumé? Erased. A deadlocked series heading into Halloween night back in Toronto? Oh yeah, it’s happening.
The Blue Jays didn’t just tie the World Series — they flipped the vibes, dragged momentum back north of the border, and turned Game 4 into a statement: We’re not just here to compete. We’re here to win the whole thing.
