Bo Bichette Had The Saddest Line About Blue Jays’ World Series Loss

It was only fitting that Game 7 of nan World Series betwixt nan Blue Jays and Dodgers ended successful different extra-inning thriller, but it was yet L.A. who emerged pinch baseball's biggest prize successful beforehand of thousands of heartbroken Blue Jays fans astatine Rogers Center.

The Blue Jays held a slim lead up until nan 11th inning, erstwhile Dodgers' Will Smith crushed a homer to put his squad successful front, 5-4. Yoshinobu Yamamoto—who would spell connected to triumph World Series MVP—then stepped onto nan mound and helped induce a game-ending double play to clinch nan title for nan defending champs.

Saturday's nonaccomplishment dealt a sadistic and devastating rustle to nan Blue Jays, who held a 3-2 bid lead entering Game 6. Blue Jays prima Bo Bichette was asked astir his three-run location tally disconnected Shohei Ohtani early successful Game 7's loss, and what it was for illustration to transverse location sheet pinch teammate Vladimir Guerrero Jr. waiting for him.

He answered pinch a sad statement astir what could person been for Toronto:

"I wish we could person won it together," Bichette said. "I wish we could person shared that infinitesimal together. But conscionable to stock nan infinitesimal pinch everybody is special."

Bichette missed a ample chunk of nan twelvemonth owed to a knee injury, but he returned for nan World Series going 8-for-23 pinch 1 location tally and 4 walks against nan Dodgers.

The 27-year-old is group to beryllium a free supplier this offseason but restated his volition to enactment successful Toronto for nan foreseeable future.

"Yeah, I already said it. I want to beryllium here, but I conscionable mislaid a Game 7 truthful you tin support connected asking me," Bichette said erstwhile probed astir his MLB early connected Saturday night.

Bichette's dream of winning a World Series pinch his longtime partner-in-crime Guerrero seems feasible enough, assuming nan Blue Jays take to support Bichette around. Guerrero's early pinch nan Blue Jays is already locked successful aft nan prima slugger inked a 14-year, $500 cardinal woody earlier this year, truthful now it's astir really overmuch nan Blue Jays tin spend to salary Bichette arsenic good arsenic different cardinal position players connected nan roster.

"Vladdy is 1 of my champion friends. We’ve had tons of [World Series] conversations for illustration that," Bichette said of Guerrero successful February. "We’ve talked astir playing together everlastingly since he was 18 and I was 19. That’s still a extremity of ours."

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