LOS ANGELES – As vaunted as this Dodgers starting rotation – led by Blake Snell and Yoshinobu Yamamoto – was when this World Series began, it’s the Blue Jays who are now on the cusp of a championship because of their skill in that area.
Trey Yesavage’s legend only grew Wednesday night as the rookie, who started the season pitching in Single-A, tamed the Dodgers in Game 5 of the World Series. It’s the Blue Jays’ home losing streak after a 6-1 win over the reigning champions at Dodger Stadium.
Yesavage set a World Series rookie record with 12 strikeouts on a night when he allowed one earned run on three hits in seven innings. It followed Shane Bieber’s strong start in the sixth inning a night earlier, when he allowed one earned run.
A talented Dodgers lineup has scored just four runs in the last 29 innings. That includes Monday, when the team didn’t score for ten innings until Freddie Freeman’s homer in the 18th won the game.
Yesavage only made his debut in the major leagues for the Blue Jays on September 15, but has emerged as a force. His record includes an eleven-strikeout performance against the Yankees in the ALDS. He was also the winning pitcher against the Mariners in Game 6 of the ALCS.
The Blue Jays have come within a win of the franchise’s first World Series title since 1993. If the Dodgers need inspiration, they can look to the Blue Jays, who were in a 3-2 series hole against the Mariners in the ALCS before rallying to win the pennant.
But if the Dodgers want to wrap up their business in this series, they’ll have to be on the road — unlike the Blue Jays, who had the comforts of home during the rally to win the ALCS.
Snell was shaky as he lost his second straight start in this series. The left-hander lasted 6 ²/₃ innings, allowing five earned runs on six hits with four walks and seven strikeouts.
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Davis Schneider launched the first pitch of the game for a homer and the ensuing batter, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., hit a no-doubt into the bullpen in left field. It was the first time in World Series history that consecutive home runs were hit by a team leading the game.
Guerrero, who went deep for the second straight night, has eight home runs this postseason, tying Shohei Ohtani in that category.
Enrique Hernández homered in the third inning to cut the Blue Jays’ lead to 2-1. The blast snapped a string of five straight strikeouts by Yesavage, who struck out the second in the second.
Daulton Varsho tripled first in the fourth inning – Teoscar Hernández went for the sliding catch in right field and missed, with the ball rolling behind him – before Ernie Clement hit a sacrifice fly that extended Toronto’s lead to 3-1.
Yesavage pitched Freeman in the fourth inning, allowing an infield single to Teoscar Hernández before retiring Tommy Edman for the final out.
Snell walked Schneider starting in the fifth, but got Guerrero to ground into a double play on a comebacker before retiring Bo Bichette to end the inning.
The Blue Jays built a cushion in the seventh. After Addison Barger singled and scored on three consecutive wild pitches (two by Snell and one by Edgardo Henriquez), Guerrero hit an RBI single that extended Toronto’s lead to 5-1.
Isiah Kiner-Falefa’s RBI single in the eighth put the Dodgers in a 6-1 hole. Clement singled from the frame and Anthony Banda’s wild pitch — the fourth of the night for the Dodgers — put the runner in scoring position.
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