TORONTO – A two-run lead was starting to slip away from the Los Angeles Dodgers in the ninth inning – along with their chance to force the World Series to Game 7.

And then Kiké Hernández turned what might have been a tying, two-run single by Andrés Giménez into the first game-ending left field-to-second base double play in postseason history.

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