The Los Angeles Dodgers won their second straight World Series title with a riveting 5-4 Game 7 victory against the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday night. The series finale included many heroes and fantastic plays. Dodgers outfielders Kike Hernandez and Andy Pages might be towards the top of the list after their late-game collision.
With the bases loaded and two outs in the bottom of the night inning, Pages, who was just inserted into the game, chased down a fly ball to keep the game tied and knocked down Hernandez in the process.
“I was going to pull a Willie Mays, and then [Pages] tackled me, and I felt like I got dunked on, and I thought we lost,” Hernandez told ESPN’s Alden Gonzalez. “I was just down because I thought we lost. And he came up to me and said, ‘Are you OK?' ‘F— that, do you have the ball?' He's like, ‘Yeah.' I'm like, ‘Yeah, let's go!'”
The grab helped Dodgers starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto get through the ninth, and extended a game that had seemed lost until Los Angeles second baseman Miguel Rojas drilled a solo home run with one out in the top of the ninth to tie the game.
“That's what it's about. Those guys, I got so much respect for what John [Schneider] does with his team and his staff and organization,” Roberts told reporters after the game. “They gave us everything they had. It was just a brawl, both teams fighting and punching back and responding. Yeah, I mean, I'm just speechless. I really am. It's going to go down as one for the ages.”
The Dodgers are the first team to win back-to-back championships since the New York Yankees won three straight from 1998 to 2000.
