TORONTO — The landing spot was a familiar one for this building in this setting. But the prevailing sound as Will Smith rounded the bases was that of silence.
Smith’s go-ahead solo shot off Shane Bieber in the top of the 11th stunned the Blue Jays and the Rogers Centre crowd Saturday night, as the Dodgers broke hearts and broached dynasty status with a comeback 5-4 victory in a Game 7 of the World Series that lived up to its lofty billing and merited its own month on the MLB calendar.
The Dodgers are repeat champs, thanks to both Smith and Miguel Rojas hitting heroic homers to virtually the same spot where Joe Carter had once ended a Toronto title triumph and thanks to the durable Yoshinobu Yamamoto coming on in relief on zero days’ rest and stranding the tying run at third in a scoreless bottom of the 11th.
