Front Row Seat: Dodgers on the brink of elimination
All the Dodgers have to do to win the World Series is beat this season's best home team at home....in back-to-back games.
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World Series
A Tale of Two Adjustments: Blue Jays Seize 3-2 World Series Advantage - FanGraphs
Game 5 of the World Series was a rematch between two pitchers, Blake Snell and Trey Yesavage, who each left Game 1 of the series unhappy with their form. That game devolved into a bullpen battle, and surely neither starter wanted a repeat of that. With the series tied at two, whichever pitcher bounced back better was likely to send their team to Toronto with a 3-2 lead and the inside track on the title. Both starters went deep into the game, but in the end, the Blue Jays got the best of Snell. They snuck in a few runs early, broke through late, and held the Dodgers at bay en route to a 6-1 victory that put them a win away from their third championship in franchise history.
The Blue Jays Make The Dodgers Look Fake And Silly - Defector
The performance in Game 5 of rookie Blue Jays starting pitcher Trey Yesavage was not quite an Ohtani-level what the fuck is happening right now type of thing. Yesavage's 12 strikeouts were the most by a rookie in a World Series game in history. Yesavage, making his second start in this series, his fifth start of the postseason, and pitching on the road in a playoff game for the first time in his career, mowed his way through the Dodgers' lineup, making several of the game's biggest stars look overwhelmed and ridiculous along the way.
World Series 2025: Blue Jays rookie Trey Yesavage shuts down Dodgers in dominant Game 5: 'I was hoping I would send 'em home upset' - Yahoo Sports
It is a stunning reality that the kid who might have just prevented the birth of a sports dynasty was majoring in communication 18 months ago. In fact, five days after Shohei Ohtani, the centerpiece of this Dodgers juggernaut, signed his landmark, $700 million free-agent deal, Yesavage, then a junior at East Carolina University, attended a college formal. Two days after Ohtani made his Dodgers debut, Yesavage got torched by the University of Texas San Antonio Roadrunners for eight hits and four runs across five innings.
He was much better on Wednesday.
