Overview
- A 2-2 game flipped in the sixth as Toronto scored nine, highlighted by Addison Barger’s first-ever pinch-hit grand slam in World Series history and Alejandro Kirk’s two-run homer.
- Blake Snell left after 100 pitches with the bases loaded, and relievers Emmet Sheehan and Anthony Banda yielded all three inherited runs plus two homers.
- Daulton Varsho tied the game with a fourth-inning two-run shot, and Kirk reached four times as the Blue Jays piled up 14 hits.
- Shohei Ohtani homered for two in the seventh after Los Angeles trailed big, and Blue Jays fans later chanted “We don’t need you!” when he batted in the ninth.
- Game 2 at Rogers Centre features Yoshinobu Yamamoto versus Kevin Gausman, and Game 1 winners have taken 23 of the last 27 World Series.