It was a simple plan really: Win or go home down two games to none on baseball’s biggest stage, the best-of-seven 2025 World Series.
The Dodgers won and are coming home with the Fall Classic now tied at a game apiece.
They did so by a score of 5-1 because of yet another stellar complete game pitching performance by 27-year-old Dodgers starting right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto in his second complete game of this postseason; his first being the Dodgers 5-1 win over the Milwaukee Brewers in Game-4 of the National League Championship Series on the road at American Family Field. He is the first Dodgers pitcher to throw two consecutive postseason complete games since Orel Hershiser did so in 1988. That was 37 years ago – 10 years before Yamamoto was even born.
In this one, the Bizen, Japan native allowed only one earned run on only four hits, while walking none and striking out eight, doing so on 105 pitches of which 73 were strikes.
[Friday’s 11-4 Dodgers World Series Game-1 loss] “…that’s a big loss, and then, needless to say, cuz, today’s game, we have to win, so, I just… how I treated this game,” Yamamoto answered postgame through an interpreter when asked about his mindset and preparation for the Dodgers 5-1 win over Toronto in Game-2 on Saturday.
looking at a 96.8-MPH four-seam fastball that was right down Broadway in the bottom of the
eighth inning – an inning in which he struck out the side. (Fox Sports)
(SportsNet LA)
As for those five Dodgers runs on Saturday, 30-year-old Dodgers catcher Will Smith drove in three of them, including his mammoth 404-foot solo home run into the second deck of Rogers Centre with one out in the top of the seventh to give the Dodgers their second (and game-winning) run.
“You know, that’s me, not trying to do too much, just trying to move the ball, help the offense score runs,” Smith told reporters postgame. “You know, you drive the ball, great, but just hitting linedrives over there,” he added.
– Fox Sports and Dodgers broadcaster Joe Davis. (Fox Sports)
After Sunday’s off day, Game-3 will be at Dodger Stadium on Monday, October 27, at 5 p.m. PT and will again be carried on Fox Sports television nationally and AM 570 radio locally.
Welcome home, boys!
Play Ball!
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