The Dodgers were luckier than the Blue Jays.

That’s all that needs to be said.

You can blather all you want about the cliches like “good hitting beating good pitching, and vice versa”, or intangibles like “grit” and “resiliency”, but when you play more than eight games worth of innings in a seven game series, it’s going to come down to some pure random chance.

A ground ball hits a lump of dirt on the infield, takes a crazy hop to elude a fielder, and a game-winning rally is ignited.

On a blustery day, a gust of wind comes in at just the right time to turn a home run into a flyout on the warning track.

A ball smashed to left field with “run scoring triple” written all over it jams itself into the space between the padding and the ground on the fly for a “stuck ball, runners advance only two bases” ground rule double, and the Dodgers get out of the inning with their lead intact.

Yes, the Blue Jays had their share of lucky moments, too.

But the Dodgers had just enough more to give them the championship.

Congratulations to everyone on both teams.