Overview
- Toronto opened Game 5 with consecutive home runs by Davis Schneider and Vladimir Guerrero Jr., the first time a World Series game has started with back-to-back homers.
- Rookie Trey Yesavage dominated with seven innings and 12 strikeouts, setting a single-game World Series record for a rookie as the Blue Jays limited the Dodgers to one run.
- Guerrero Jr. hit his eighth homer of the postseason, continuing a standout October for Toronto's lineup.
- Game 6 is Friday, Oct. 31 at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, where the Blue Jays can clinch; a Dodgers win would force a Game 7 on Saturday.
- Historically, when a World Series is tied 2-2, the Game 5 winner has gone on to win the championship in roughly two-thirds of cases.