Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Toronto Blue Jays: World Series Game 7 Odds, Prediction
The Blue Jays play their first-ever World Series Game 7 on Saturday night as they host the Los Angeles Dodgers in MLB’s first winner-take-all game in six years. L.A. is -145 on the MLB odds with a total of 8.0.
Betting Analysis
The Major League Baseball season concludes tonight – Opening Day for 2026 is March 26 for Toronto at home vs. the Athletics. Will there be a third World Series banner raised? Toronto tries to join Boston as the only clubs to win the World Series in each of its first three tries.
But it’s the first World Series Game 7 in Blue Jays history as they won titles in 1992 (in Atlanta) and ’93 (then called SkyDome) in Game 6. This marks the 41st winner-take-all game in the Fall Classic and first since 2019 when Washington beat visiting Houston. It’s the seventh winner-take-all contest of the 2025 post-season, tying 2012 for the most ever in a single playoffs.
The Dodgers are 5-5 all-time in Game 7 of a post-season series, including 5-4 in Game 7 of a best-of-seven series overall, and 2-5 in Game 7 of the World Series. The team’s seven World Series Game 7s are the third-most of any franchise.
Toronto is 1-1 all-time in Game 7s, winning at home in this season’s ALCS vs. Seattle and losing the 1985 ALCS to Kansas City. The Jays are 3-1 all-time in winner-take-all games. It becomes only the sixth franchise to play in multiple Game 7s in a single post-season and first since Houston in 2017. Those Astros and the 1985 Royals are the only clubs to win multiple Game 7s in the same season.
Los Angeles Dodgers
Let’s be clear that neither starting pitcher matters on Saturday as every single player on both rosters will likely be available with the off-season up next. So the Dodgers will start Shohei Ohtani but simply as an opener so they don’t lose the designated hitter, which of course he is.
Because of the two-way rule, starting Ohtani ensures he can remain in the game as the DH after he exits as a pitcher. If they brought him in relief, the Dodgers would lose the DH and he’d either have to leave the game or play the outfield.
How long he goes is not clear, but it won’t be too long as Ohtani threw 93 pitches in taking the Game 4 loss. He is the -105 World Series MVP favourite.
This would have been Tyler Glasnow’s spot normally, but he came out of the bullpen to record the final three outs in the 3-1 win Friday in Game 6. He’ll definitely be used again tonight. Los Angeles tries to become the first World Series repeat winner since the Yankees threepeated in 2000.
Toronto Blue Jays
A Blue Jays upset would mark a 25th consecutive MLB season without a repeat champion, extending the longest of its kind in the history of the four major North American professional sports leagues (MLB, NBA, NFL & NHL).
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had surged into the series MVP favoured role entering Game 6 but the loss has dropped him back to second-favoured at +130. George Springer returned to Toronto’s lineup Friday for the first time since leaving in the seventh inning of Game 3 and had two hits and the lone RBI.
Tonight could be the last-ever outing for future Hall of Famer and 41-year-old Max Scherzer on the hill. The one-time Dodger pitched Game 3 in Los Angeles and took a no-decision in that epic 18-inning Dodgers win, allowing three runs and five hits over 4.1 innings.
Scherzer also started Game 7 of the 2019 World Series for Washington vs. Houston and thus will become the fifth pitcher to start multiple Game 7s in World Series history.
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