Overview
- Toronto beat Los Angeles 6-1 in Game 5 after Davis Schneider and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. opened with consecutive homers, the first time a World Series game began that way.
- Trey Yesavage worked seven innings with 12 strikeouts, no walks, three hits and one run on 104 pitches at Dodger Stadium.
- The rookie surpassed Don Newcombe’s 1949 mark for strikeouts by a rookie in a World Series game and logged the most Ks without a walk in a World Series outing.
- Statcast measured a 7.09-foot release point and roughly a 65-degree arm angle for Yesavage, who generated 23 whiffs—the most in a World Series game since pitch tracking began in 2008.
- The Series shifts to Rogers Centre for Game 6, where Kevin Gausman is slated to face Yoshinobu Yamamoto as the Blue Jays seek their first title since 1993.