Yamamoto's Back-to-Back Complete Games Evens Series

Yoshinobu Yamamoto dominated Game 2 of the World Series, throwing a four‑hit, no‑walk complete game with eight strikeouts while retiring his final 20 batters as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5–1 to even the series at 1–1. It was his second consecutive postseason complete game — the first back‑to‑back postseason complete games since Curt Schilling in 2001 — and the first complete game in a World Series since 2015. Will Smith drove in three runs, including a go‑ahead solo homer in the seventh, and Max Muncy added another solo shot as the Dodgers added insurance runs in the eighth off Toronto’s bullpen. Yamamoto, 27 and in his second big‑league season, threw 105 pitches, worked with six different offerings, and allowed his lone run after hitting George Springer and surrendering a Vladimir Guerrero Jr. single. The series shifts to Los Angeles for three games, with Game 3 set for Monday and the Blue Jays announcing Max Scherzer while the Dodgers are slated to start Tyler Glasnow.