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David will be here shortly.<\/strong> In the meantime here\u2019s a look at our experts\u2019 predictions for the 121st Fall Classic.<\/p>\n Dodgers 4-2 Blue Jays. <\/strong>This will be a closer series than people expect. Expect the Blue Jays to score at least one lopsided victory after knocking out one of the vaunted Dodgers starting pitchers early in the game. The problem for the Blue Jays will be an inconsistent bullpen, not their starting pitching, that will struggle against a patient group of veteran Dodgers hitters. GB<\/strong><\/p>\n Dodgers 4-1 Blue Jays.<\/strong> It feels predestined that the Dodgers will win. If they have a weakness, it\u2019s their bullpen (a shaky 4.27 ERA in the regular season) \u2013 but the return to fitness of Sasaki and his devastating splitter should help them stabilize things if anything starts to go wrong. Meanwhile Toronto need absolutely everything to go right. Maybe they can ride Guerrero and Gausman to one upset, but four wins is an enormous ask. AE<\/strong><\/p>\n Dodgers 4-3 Blue Jays.<\/strong> Their rotation depth is unmatched, their stars rested and Ohtani\u2019s presence elevates the entire lineup\u2019s confidence. This should be a cakewalk for the Dodgers, but baseball is funny sometimes. Toronto\u2019s offense will make the most of their home-field advantage, but the Dodgers\u2019 combination of starting pitching, discipline and star power will simply prove too much to prevent baseball\u2019s first repeat champion in a quarter-century. BAG<\/strong><\/p>\n Blue Jays 4-3 Dodgers.<\/strong> Yamamoto, Snell, Ohtani, Glasnow? What are you supposed to do with these guys? They\u2019ve been so good, their beleaguered bullpen only pitched seven innings in their sweep of the Brewers. That\u2019s positively old school by LA. It\u2019s hard to imagine Toronto pulling it off, but now, really try. Imagine Bichette returning to the lineup and picking up where he left while Guerrero and Springer stay white hot. How about Gausman pitching twice at the Rogers Centre where the Jays are so hard to beat? Contact hitters waste pitches and put the ball in play: anything can happen and it does. Suddenly we\u2019re in Game 7 when Addison Barger touches them all in the 10th inning, helping the Jays to their first title since 1993. Not bad, eh? DL<\/strong><\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" David will be here shortly. In the meantime here\u2019s a look at our experts\u2019 predictions for the 121st Fall Classic. Dodgers 4-2 Blue Jays. This will be a closer series than people expect. Expect the Blue Jays to score at least one lopsided victory after knocking out one of the vaunted Dodgers starting pitchers early<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[3422,133,2463,413,4851,132,3421,1266,4297,127,550],"class_list":{"0":"post-30402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-angeles","9":"tag-blue","10":"tag-dodgers","11":"tag-game","12":"tag-jays","13":"tag-live","14":"tag-los","15":"tag-series","16":"tag-toronto","17":"tag-updates","18":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}