{"id":56095,"date":"2025-10-24T23:55:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T04:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/blue-jays-batter-dodgers-with-nine-run-sixth-inning-to-take-world-series-opener\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T23:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T04:55:06","slug":"blue-jays-batter-dodgers-with-nine-run-sixth-inning-to-take-world-series-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/blue-jays-batter-dodgers-with-nine-run-sixth-inning-to-take-world-series-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays batter Dodgers with nine-run sixth inning to take World Series opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Barger belts first pinch-hit grand slam in Series history<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Kirk adds two-run shot as Toronto seize Game 1<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Ohtani homers but Dodgers fall behind early in Toronto<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2025\/oct\/24\/world-series-2025-game-1-los-angeles-dodgers-v-toronto-blue-jays-live-updates\">World Series Game 1 \u2013 as it happened<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Addison Barger launched the first pinch-hit grand slam in World Series history and Alejandro Kirk added a two-run homer as the Toronto Blue Jays stormed back to crush the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers 11\u20134 in Friday night\u2019s opener at Rogers Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Playing in their first Fall Classic in 32 years, the Blue Jays erupted for nine runs in the sixth inning, turning a 2\u20130 deficit into a blowout that electrified a sold-out home crowd and gave Toronto a 1\u20130 lead in the best-of-seven series. Barger\u2019s 413-foot blast to center capped a historic inning that also included Kirk\u2019s homer and a parade of baserunners against a shell-shocked Dodgers bullpen.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/oct\/24\/world-series-game-1-report-blue-jays-dodgers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barger belts first pinch-hit grand slam in Series history Kirk adds two-run shot as Toronto seize Game 1 Ohtani homers but Dodgers fall behind early in Toronto World Series Game 1 \u2013 as it happened Addison Barger launched the first pinch-hit grand slam in World Series history and Alejandro Kirk added a two-run homer as &#8230; <a title=\"Blue Jays batter Dodgers with nine-run sixth inning to take World Series opener\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/blue-jays-batter-dodgers-with-nine-run-sixth-inning-to-take-world-series-opener\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Blue Jays batter Dodgers with nine-run sixth inning to take World Series opener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}