I've been thinking about this the whole series. The World Series champion Dodgers didn't have any big innings.
Out of 74 innings across the series consider these facts.
- The Dodgers never scored more than 3 runs in an inning.
- Only scored more than 2 runs in one inning.
- Only scored more than 1 run in 5 innings
- Jays scored more runs
- Jays had more multi-run games
- Jays had 4 innings with 3 or more runs.
Its really wild how pitching won this series.
DodgersDodgers
| Game | Innings | 2 or more run inning | 3 run inning | Total runs | Winner |
| Game 1 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 4 | Jays |
| Game 2 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 5 | Dodgers |
| Game 3 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 6 | Dodgers |
| Game 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 | Jays |
| Game 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Jays |
| Game 6 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 3 | Dodgers |
| Game 7 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 5 | Dodgers |
| totals | 74 | 5 | 1 | 27 | Dodgers |
Here is the same info for the losing team.
Blue JaysBlue Jays
| Game | Innings | 2 or more run inning | 3 or more run inning | Total runs | Winner |
| Game 1 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 11 | Jays |
| Game 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Dodgers |
| Game 3 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 5 | Dodgers |
| Game 4 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | Jays |
| Game 5 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 6 | Jays |
| Game 6 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Dodgers |
| Game 7 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 4 | Dodgers |
| Totals | 73 | 8 | 4 | 34 | Dodgers |
I don't know where this falls historically but it has to be an outlier.
All in all Jays broke Canadian piper's dream!
One pitcher, timely home runs and Jays lack of execution in key moments won the series. That's baseball.
Only 14 out of 121 world series winners have been outscored by their opponent.
This would be only the third time in history a team scores 7 or more fewer runs than their opponent and won the World Series. Typically if you score one run less per game you don't win more games than your opponent. 3/121= 2.47%
I don't want to cry that the Jays were unlucky though because they had way too many chances where "just bad luck" wasn't the reason for lack of results. Sure there were a few of those but a lot where is was poor decision making or execution.
As a Dodger fan I fully admit it could have easily went the other way. So many chances. That's baseball, as you said.