Blue Jays entering uncharted territory as 2025 World Series reaches the pinnacle

In postseason that has been filled with intense moments the Toronto Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers will add one more before it is all said and done. The 2025 World Series will be decided in Game 7 on Saturday, November 1 in Toronto at Rogers Centre.

This marks two areas of uncharted territory the Blue Jays have never traversed before, playing into November, and playing the seventh game of a World Series.

Blue Jays entering uncharted territory as 2025 World Series reaches the pinnacle

Both of the Blue Jays previous World Series championships have ended in Game 6 scenarios. In 1992, the Blue Jays beat the Braves in Atlanta 4-3 in 11 innings. Dave Winfield's two-run double in the top half cashed in the third and fourth runs for the Blue Jays. In the bottom half, the Braves got a run back and got the tying run on base, but Otis Nixon tried to bunt his way on past Mike Timlin, who threw it to Joe Carter at first for the final out.

In 1993, the Blue Jays beat the Phillies in Toronto on Carter's three-run walk off home run in the bottom of the ninth - an inning that began with the Blue Jays trailing 6-5. It still remains as only the second walk off home run to clinch the World Series in MLB history.

While both those series ended in Game 6, they also ended in October. The latest the Blue Jays have ever played baseball into the calendar year is October 24, 1992. Toronto has never experienced November baseball, and Saturday night's Game 7 against the LA Dodgers will be the first.

There have been 40 Game 7's in World Series history and unfortunately for the Blue Jays, the road team has a slight advantage in those games, with a 21-19 all-time record, and the road team has won four straight Game 7's, but prior to 2019, they had lost the previous nine. The Dodgers as a franchise have played six of these games and are 2-4 in those contests.

Nov. 1, 2017 -- Astros 5, Dodgers 1
Oct. 14, 1965 -- Dodgers 2, Twins 0
Oct. 10, 1956 -- Yankees 9, Dodgers 0
Oct. 4, 1955 -- Dodgers 2, Yankees 0
Oct. 7, 1952 -- Yankees 4, Dodgers 2
Oct. 6, 1947 -- Yankees 5, Dodgers 2

The Blue Jays, prior to 2025 had only played in one Game 7 scenario in their playoff history and that was in 1985, when they lost the ALCS to the Kansas City Royals. But they avenged that loss in 2025 when they beat the Seattle Mariners 4-3 just 12 days ago to clinch their first AL pennant in 32 years.

It's been a monumental season for the Toronto Blue Jays. They have never gone from worst to first in the span of one offseason. This group had not won a division title, let alone win a single playoff game. But they keep checking off all these boxes on their list of accomplishments, so why not two more? Win a game in November, and win a World Series in seven games.