TORONTO — The Dodgers might be baseball’s version of the Death Star.
But in a raucous World Series opener on Friday night in Toronto, the Blue Jays found their exhaust vent, and triggered an implosion of galactic proportions.
In a nine-run sixth inning that had Rogers Centre rocking and the previously invincible Dodgers reeling, the Blue Jays smashed open what had been a tied score and rolled to an eventual 11-4 win in Game 1 of the World Series.
They attacked the Dodgers’ one glaring weakness in the bullpen. They executed the kind of game script to which the defending champions have long seemed susceptible.