The Toronto Blue Jays faced severe criticism from the American media after losing Game 7 of the World Series to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Experts pointed to repeated postseason setbacks and missed opportunities. The Blue Jays lost in the decisive seventh game, extending Canada’s championship drought. Analysts cited poor pitching and a lack of clutch hitting as the main reasons for the defeat.
Despite a strong regular season and early playoff start, the Toronto Blue Jays failed once again, prolonging Canada’s championship drought once more.
US media outlets have been harshly critical of the Toronto Blue Jays following their heartbreaking loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the title-deciding Game 7 of the World Series. Experts criticized the team’s repeated postseason failures, with one outlet declaring, ‘Toronto keeps losing one after another’. The Blue Jays lost 4–5 in a thrilling 11-inning Game 7, a crushing defeat that left Toronto two innings away from winning its first championship in 32 years.
Analysts cited missed chances, poor pitching and clutch play under pressure as the main reasons behind the loss. Showed lack of hitting. Despite a strong regular season and hopes of an early playoff run, the Blue Jays once again failed, Which extended Canada’s championship drought and showcased baseball on its biggest stage. New questions arose over the team’s ability to do so.
The Athletic’s senior writer and sports analyst, Ken Rosenthal, reflected on the Blue Jays’ narrow loss, noting how close Toronto came to ending its decades-long championship drought.
In his postgame column, Rosenthal wrote, “The Toronto Blue Jays were the better team for most of the series. They outscored the Dodgers 34-26. They held them to a .203 batting average. And in the seventh game, three innings and two outs away from their first series title since 1993, they were ahead 3-0.” “In the end, though, only one team could win.”
LA Times writer Dylan Hernandez criticized the Toronto Blue Jays during a post-game podcast with his fellow columnists.
“It’s amazing how the city of Toronto keeps producing losers. They’re like San Diego up north,” Hernandez remarked on the field after the game, though he quickly clarified that he was only joking.
“I had to say one last goodbye to my friends up north, because they’re not coming back here anytime soon,” Hernandez joked.
Reflecting on the dramatic conclusion of the World Series, baseball writer Jason Stark expressed the emotion and significance of that moment.
“How can you describe whether you’ve been a part of the greatest World Series game of your life? Or perhaps we should make it a part of anyone’s life?” Stark wrote for The Athletic.
“Do you have to wait for a panel of historians to pass judgment on it? Or do you simply look into the eyes of your teammates and recognize that you all know it when you see it, when you live it, when you play in it?”
Veteran analyst Chris Rose, on his Baseball Today podcast, revisited several of the “interesting chapters” of the World Series, highlighting the 18-inning marathon, Trey Yesevage’s 12-strikeout performance and Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s fiery form – calling him “as smokin’ hot as I can remember, outside of someone like Barry Bonds, over a three-week period.”
“I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say it might be the best World Series in the last four or five decades,” Rose said on the podcast.
