Overview
- Los Angeles beat Toronto 5-1 in Game 2, breaking a 1-1 tie on seventh-inning solo homers by Will Smith and Max Muncy off Kevin Gausman.
- Yamamoto went the distance on 105 pitches, allowing four hits and one run with eight strikeouts and retiring the final 20 batters he faced.
- It was reported as the first World Series complete game since 2015, leveling the best-of-seven at 1-1 before the matchup heads to Dodger Stadium.
- Gausman had retired 17 straight before the Dodgers’ seventh-inning burst, finishing with three runs allowed and six strikeouts over 6.2 innings.
- Game 1 belonged to Toronto in an 11-4 win keyed by a nine-run sixth that featured Addison Barger’s first pinch-hit grand slam in World Series history, and Game 3 is slated for Monday with Max Scherzer facing Tyler Glasnow.