Overview
- Los Angeles beat Toronto 5-1 at Rogers Centre to tie the World Series 1-1 after two games.
- Yoshinobu Yamamoto authored a complete game on 105 pitches with four hits allowed, no walks and eight strikeouts.
- Will Smith put the Dodgers ahead with a seventh-inning home run before Max Muncy added another; Smith also opened the scoring in the first.
- Toronto’s 11-4 win in Game 1 was built on a nine-run sixth that included Addison Barger’s pinch-hit grand slam, the first by a pinch-hitter in World Series history according to the Fox broadcast.
- Alejandro Kirk became the first Mexican player to homer in a World Series during Game 1 and he supplied Toronto’s lone run in Game 2 with a sacrifice fly.