US EditionYamamoto throws complete game as Dodgers beat Blue Jays 5-1 in Game 2 of World Series
Yamamoto threw a four-hitter with eight strikeouts and no walks in a 5-1 Dodgers win, marking the first back-to-back complete games in the World Series since 2001.
- Will Smith and Max Muncy both hit solo home runs in the seventh inning, leading the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 5-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 2 of the World Series.
- Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched a complete game for the Dodgers, allowing one run and four hits while striking out eight batters.
- The series is tied at one game each, with Game 3 scheduled for Monday at Dodger Stadium.
- Toronto managed four hits, but Los Angeles outhit them 6-4 and scored two additional runs in the eighth inning to secure their victory.
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World Series: Dominant Yamamoto twirls complete game as Dodgers get even in Game 2
TORONTO — Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched a World Series game from another era. Sandy Koufax had October outings like this and so did Orel Hershiser, but those types of performances had vanished in modern baseball. Until this 5-foot-10 starter from Japan delivered like the aces of old. Yamamoto threw a four-hitter for his second consecutive complete game, the first in the World Series since 2015, and the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers beat th…
He left the Dugout as transported from a past era, when the pitchers also played as gatekeepers: Yoshinobu Yamamoto was in the ninth inning of the World Series. Before Saturday night’s victory by 5-1 of the Los Angeles Dodgers over the Toronto Tiles, it had been a decade since a pitcher finished what he had started on this stage. “Today’s game we had to win,” Yamamoto said through his interpreter, Yoshihiro Sonada. “So I faced the game.” Among t…
The Blue Jays suffered a 5-1 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday night in Toronto in the second game of the World Series.
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