The Toronto Blue Jays have heard the doubters.
While the Los Angeles Dodgers entered the World Series as decisive favorites, the Blue Jays took Game 1 and flipped it upside down Friday night with one of the most dominant innings in the history of the Fall Classic.
Toronto turned a 2-2 game into an 11-2 game with a 9-run sixth inning, chasing Blake Snell and Emmet Sheehan out of the game before breaking it open with a pinch-hit grand slam and a 2-run home run. It was the kind of inning not seen in the World Series in more than five decades.
Here’s what you need to know about the Blue Jays’ onslaught in Game 1 of the World Series and where it ranks in MLB history.
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Most runs in a World Series inning
The record for most runs in an inning by a team in the World Series is 10, set by the Detroit Tigers in Game 6 in 1968 and the Philadelphia Athletics in Game 4 of the 1929 World Series.
9 runs are the 3rd-most in a #WorldSeries inning, behind only:
1968 DET G6, 3rd
1929 PHA G4, 7thWith 10 each pic.twitter.com/PSd45FRHkB
— MLB (@MLB) October 25, 2025
Ironically enough, 1968 was considered the “year of the pitcher,” with pitching so dominant that the mound was lowered after the season. That didn’t hold up in the third inning of World Series Game 6, which set the stage for a winner-take-all Game 7 that the Tigers would also win.
For the 1929 A’s, a 10-run seventh inning helped the team overcome an 8-0 deficit and move one step closer to a championship that would be wrapped up in Game 5.
The record for most runs by one team in a postseason inning is 11, set by the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 3 of the 2020 NLCS against the Atlanta Braves. The Dodgers had entered the night down 2-0 in the series but quickly proved they weren’t done and went on to win the series.
Before 2020, the playoff record was 10, shared by the 1968 Tigers and three other teams.
The Blue Jays’ sixth-inning explosion didn’t quite reach that level, but it was the highest-scoring inning by one team in the World Series since 1968 and turned a tied game into a total rout in favor of the underdog.
Here’s how the inning unraveled for the Dodgers.
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Blue Jays 9-run inning
The Blue Jays knew the key to beating the Dodgers would be working counts, making contact and keeping the line moving. That’s exactly what they did to start the sixth inning in Game 1, with the first six batters all reaching base.
Four hitters came to the plate with the bases loaded and no one out. Ernie Clement singled in a run, Nathan Lukes walked in another and Andres Gimenez singled in a third.
After George Springer grounded into the first out of the inning, Addison Barger completely broke the game open with a pinch-hit grand slam off Dodgers reliever Anthony Banda. Barger’s blast was the first pinch-hit grand slam in World Series history.
ADDISON BARGER
PINCH-HIT
GRAND SLAM#WORLDSERIES pic.twitter.com/REg58MNosp— MLB (@MLB) October 25, 2025
Alejandro Kirk would add on with a 2-run home run three batters later, making it a 9-run inning for the Blue Jays and an 11-2 advantage that all but put the game out of reach for the reigning champions.
ALEJANDRO KIRK HOMERS
IT’S A NINE-RUN INNING #WORLDSERIES pic.twitter.com/7AeWHvOTKE
— MLB (@MLB) October 25, 2025
