MLB World Series 2025 Box Score Predictions for Dodgers vs. Blue Jays Game 7

The Fall Classic is headed to Game 7 after a scary good performance from Yoshinobu Yamamoto on Halloween night, in which he delivered six innings of one-run baseball, shutting down the Toronto Blue Jays and ensuring the Los Angeles Dodgers' quest to repeat as World Series champions continues.

Future Hall of Famer Max Scherzer takes the mound for Toronto Saturday night while Shohei Ohtani, the best player on the planet, gets the nod for Los Angeles.

What can fans expect from those players destined to take their place in immortality and which players may prove the heroes for their respective squads in the best-of-one game?

Find out with these box score predictions.

Starting Pitchers

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There has not been a Game 7 in the World Series in eight years. The pitcher the last time? Max Scherzer, who will look to add to his Hall of Fame resume Saturday night on the grandest stage the world of professional baseball has to offer when he takes to the mound.

It will also serve as redemption of sorts after a Game 3 start that saw him pitch just 4.1 innings, give up five hits, three earned runs, and a walk while striking out just three batters.

The Dodgers won that game, 6-5, the historic 18-inning marathon, and will look to get to Scherzer early on Saturday night and force the Blue Jays to turn to a bullpen that is already taxed.

Shohei Ohtani's last start was not particularly great for Los Angeles, either.

The NL MVP favorite pitched six innings, but gave up six hits and four earned runs. Those six hits were more than he gave up to either Philadelphia or Milwaukee in his first two postseason starts.

Barring an offensive explosion for the Blue Jays that knocks him out of the game early, Ohtani should be expected to go six innings, which has been his standard in this postseason, having gone the same number in both the NLDS and NLCS.

Predictions

Scherzer: 4.1 innings, 5 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 HR, 4 K

Ohtani: 6.0 innings, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 HR, 6 K

Freddie Freeman

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No Dodger has the experience of playing against Scherzer than Freddie Freeman, who has 56 plate appearances against Mad Max and has 11 hits, four of which were doubles and three of which were home runs.

While his average is an unimpressive .196, when Freeman does hit Scherzer, he hits him hard and to great effect.

Add to that Freeman's penchant for high-drama hits and home runs, such as the walk-off that won the Dodgers the unforgettable Game 3, and you have a player who could be the determining factor in Saturday's winner-takes-all game.

The future Hall of Famer has six home runs across the 2024 and 2025 postseasons and could deliver another that catapults the team to its second championship in as many years and his third.

Predictions

4 AB, 2 H, HR, 2 RBI, BB, SO

Vladimir Guerrero

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Guerrero has been among the best players in the 2025 postseason, delivering 17 runs on 28 hits, with eight home runs, and 15 RBI.

He has lived up to his status as one of the league's biggest stars, and if the Blue Jays win Saturday night, he will have to have a significant role in the game.

Vlad Jr. has a .412 average in these playoffs and an on-base percentage of .506. In his first playoff performance since 2023, he has been every bit the star his franchise and fans expected him to be when he signed a 14-year, $500 million contract extension in April.

In nine plate appearances against Shohei Ohtani, he has three hits in eight at-bats, with a double and a home run, the latter coming in Game 3 against the defending NL MVP.

Few batters have that sort of sustained success against Ohtani so it would appear rather unlikely that he has that explosive a showing against him in Game 7. Still, for the Blue Jays to win the Commissioner's Trophy, they will need big play from their most prominent star.

Prediction

4 AB, 2 H, HR, 2 SO, BB