Alive and well thanks to his survival mitt

The Dodgers, it turns out, chose the perfect costume in which to parade on this scariest of Halloween nights.

- BILL PLASCHKE COLUMNIST

DODGERS players exult after Kiké Hernández and Miguel Rojas pulled off a stunning game-ending double play against Toronto.

(ROBERT GAUTHIER Los Angeles Times)

They came dressed as the Dodgers.

The Yoshinobu-Yamamoto -firing Dodgers. The Mookie-Betts -blasting Dodgers. The energetic-and-inspired Dodgers.

The listless team of the previous two games was gone. The passionate team of the previous month was back.

Earlier this week fans were asking, who are those guys? On Friday they emphatically answered that question by finally, forcefully, being themselves.

Faced with elimination in Game 6 of the World Series, the Dodgers rose from the presumed dead to haunt the Toronto Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre with a 3-1 victory to knot the duel at three games apiece.

And they did with the most unlikely of saves, a game-ending double play on a lineout that Kiké Hernández caught in left field and, while sprinting toward the infield, threw to Miguel Rojas at second base, where he made a scooped catch to double up Addison Barger.

The Blue Jays began the inning with runners on second and third and none out. They ended it watching the Dodgers celebrate around Rojas on second base, their golden opportunity to clinch their first title in more than three decades having disappeared under a welcome wave of Dodger savvy.

How on earth does Toronto come back from something like that?

“Wild way to finish it, for sure ... baseball happens sometimes,” said Toronto Manager John Schneider.

How on earth can the Dodgers not gain insurmountable momentum from something like that?

“I feel great,” said Dodgers manager Dave Roberts. “I feel great.”