Overview
- Toronto beat Los Angeles 6-1 at Dodger Stadium to take a 3-2 World Series lead and move within a victory of their first crown since 1993.
- Rookie Trey Yesavage struck out 12 over seven innings with no walks, breaking the World Series rookie strikeout record previously held by Don Newcombe.
- Davis Schneider and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. opened the game with back-to-back homers off Blake Snell, the first time a World Series game has ever started with consecutive leadoff home runs.
- The Dodgers’ offense continued to sputter, finishing 4-for-30 with 15 strikeouts in Game 5 as Shohei Ohtani went 0-for-4 and Mookie Betts conceded, “I’ve just been terrible.”
- Game 6 is Friday at Rogers Centre with Yamamoto expected for L.A. and Kevin Gausman for Toronto, and history favors the Jays as teams that win a road Game 5 to go up 3-2 in a 2-3-2 series have captured the title 74.1% of the time.