Pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto hurled a complete-game, four-hit gem, leading the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers to a 5-1 win over the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 2 of the 2025 World Series Saturday at Rogers Centre.
The win evened the best-of-seven series at a game apiece, with Game 3 set for Monday (5 p.m.) in L.A.
The Dodgers broke open a 1-1 deadlock in the seventh inning, when Will Smith and Max Muncy hit solo homers off Toronto starter Kevin Gausman, who took the loss despite a solid outing that saw him go 6 2/3 innings, allowing three earned runs and striking out six. Alejandro Kirk drove in the sole Toronto run, plating George Springer with a sacrifice fly in the third inning.
Smith finished 2-for-4 with three RBI for the winners, while Yamamoto recorded eight strikeouts.
The Dodgers opened the scoring with two out in the top of the first inning, when Freddie Freeman doubled and came in on Smith’s single.
The Jays had a good chance to get to Yamamoto in their half of the inning after Springer doubled and Nathan Lukes singled. But Yamamoto sandwiched whiffs of Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Dalton Varsho around a Kirk lineout to escape unscathed.
In the third, Springer was hit by a pitch and then advanced to third on Guerrero’s single before being cashed in by Kirk.
Smith and Muncy’s seventh-inning homers, then two more runs in the eighth off a wild pitch and a fielder’s choice, rounded out the Dodgers scoring.
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NOTES: Blue Jays legend Joe Carter, whose dramatic game-winning home run gave Toronto their last World Series title in 1993, threw out the first pitch.