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The Blue Jays Had Multiple Chances to Win But Left 14 Runners Stranded

Hey Jays fans! What a heartbreaking Game 7 – your boys came SO close to bringing the championship home to Canada for the first time since ’93. The Dodgers won 5-4 in 11 innings, but Toronto had at least 4-5 golden opportunities to put this away.usatoday+3​

The Missed Opportunities That Hurt

The Blue Jays tied a World Series Game 7 record by leaving 14 runners on base (matching the 1924 Giants) and went just 3-for-17 with runners in scoring position. Here’s what could have changed everything:mlb+1​

9th Inning Drama: With bases loaded and one out, Isiah Kiner-Falefa (running for injured Bo Bichette) was thrown out at home on a close play. The killer? He took too conservative a lead at third base – coaches told him to “stay close” to avoid a double play, but that extra step might have won the championship.nypost+1​

Multiple Rally Killers: They loaded the bases with two outs in the 2nd, had runners on 1st and 2nd with one out in the 4th, a runner at third with no outs in the 5th, and runners at the corners with one out in the 11th.si+1​

What Went Wrong

Three crucial home runs killed them: Max Muncy (8th inning), Miguel Rojas’s game-tying shot in the 9th off closer Jeff Hoffman, and Will Smith’s 11th-inning winner off Shane Bieber. Hoffman was literally two outs from a championship when Rojas took him deep on a hanging slider.usatoday+2​

The Jays had a 4-2 lead late and were just 90 feet away from their first title in 32 years multiple times. As one player said through tears: “We grinded so hard… 99 times out of 100 those guys get the job done. This wasn’t our night”.si+1​

So close, yet so far. The championship that slipped through their fingers will haunt Toronto for years to come.sbnation+1​

Editor’s Note: How many times have you heard, “There’s *always* next year” 🙁

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