By PAUL GOTHAM
Ernie Clement finished 2-for-4 including a go-ahead RBI single in a sixth inning that saw the Toronto Blue Jays send 12 batters to the plate and score nine runs on the way to an 11-4 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 1 of the 2025 World Series.
Hitting seventh in the lineup, Clement drove in pinch-runner Isiah Kiner-Falefa with his second single of the night and was the fourth of six straight Blue Jays to reach base to start the inning.
Ernie Clement drives a go-ahead single! #WorldSeries pic.twitter.com/C72nJKL2c4
— MLB (@MLB) October 25, 2025
Four batters later, Addison Barger connected on a pinch-hit grand slam (the first such hit in World Series history).
“That’s the epitome of our offense,” Clement told Tom Verducci of Fox Sports after the game. “It’s a collective effort and everybody just doing their job.”
“It’s been special, they bring it every night”
— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) October 25, 2025
Ernie Clement to Tom Verducci about playing in front of the Toronto crowd pic.twitter.com/CkMnlsxCQO
The decisive inning which also included a two-run home run off the bat of catcher Alejandro Kirk sent the sellout crowd at the Rogers Centre into a frenzy.
“They bring it every night,” Clement said of the Toronto fans. “The last few months, they’ve been selling this place out and giving us a ton of energy. We’re lucky to have these fans.”
Clement’s multi-hit effort was his seventh of the postseason tying him with Devon White for the single-season franchise record, per Sportsnet Stats.
Ernie Clement ties Devon White (1993) for the most multi-hit games in a postseason in Blue Jays history with 7 #WANTITALL pic.twitter.com/37RNTvorKX
— Sportsnet Stats (@SNstats) October 25, 2025
The former Brighton standout is the only player in MLB history with 20+ hits and 2 or fewer strikeouts in the first 12 games of a single postseason, per Just Baseball.
Players with 20+ hits and 2 or fewer strikeouts in the first 12 games of a single postseason:
— Just Baseball (@JustBB_Media) October 25, 2025
Ernie Clement
End of list 🤯 pic.twitter.com/dXfmg9BNge
Game 2 of the World Series is scheduled for Saturday night. An 8:00 p.m. first pitch is slated. The Blue Jays will send Kevin Gausman to the mound. The Dodgers will counter with Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
Keep it going,!