Blue Jays take 3-2 lead over Dodgers : NPR

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Brynn Anderson/AP LOS ANGELES — Trey Yesavage set a World Collection rookie document with 12 strikeouts, and the Toronto Blue Jays opened Sport 5 with back-to-back homers in a 6-1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday that moved them inside one win of their first championship since 1993.

Davis Schneider and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. related on Blake Snell's first and third pitches, the primary consecutive house runs to begin a Collection recreation.

Yesavage, a precocious 22-year-old right-hander who started his season final April pitching earlier than 327 followers in Class A, took over from there.

With a sinking splitter, spinning slider and overpowering fastball that quieted LA bats and a crowd of 52,175, he broke the prior Collection rookie document of 11 strikeouts set by Don Newcombe for the Dodgers in a 1-0 loss to the New York Yankees within the 1949 opener. Getting six Ks every together with his splitter and slider, Yesavage grew to become the primary World Collection pitcher with 12 strikeouts and no walks.

"I am sort of blown away by what he did," Toronto supervisor John Schneider stated.

After shedding a Sport 3 heartbreaker in 18 innings Monday night time, the resilient Blue Jays bounced proper again with two comfy wins.

Toronto leads 3-2 within the best-of-seven matchup and may dethrone the defending champions again house when the Collection resumes Friday night time at Rogers Centre. No staff has received consecutive titles because the Yankees took three in a row from 1998-2000.

"We have got to sort of wipe the slate clear and discover a solution to win Sport 6 and choose up the items and see the place we're at," Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts stated.

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Brynn Anderson/AP Yesavage allowed three hits over seven innings and his solely run when Kiké Hernández homered on a excessive fastball to trim the Dodgers' deficit to 2-1 within the third.

Seranthony Domínguez and Jeff Hoffman completed a four-hitter.

"When three of my pitches are within the strike zone, and even two, like a part of tonight, I imply, I am in management," Yesavage stated. "Simply keep within the strike zone and get forward."

Yesavage debuted with the Blue Jays on Sept. 15, his fifth stage of baseball this 12 months. He went 1-0 in three regular-season begins and is 3-1 in 5 postseason outings.

Yesavage induced 23 swings and misses — most in a Collection recreation since pitch monitoring began in 2008, yet another than San Francisco's Tim Lincecum in 2010 Sport 5.

"Clearly the stuff is unbelievable, however the maturity to go and deal with these moments is unbelievable. It was a particular factor to observe at this time," teammate Bo Bichette stated. "I feel he is extremely assured, however you by no means hear it within the clubhouse, which I feel says one thing about him. He comes right here to work and attempt to assist us win. I can not say sufficient good issues about his efficiency."

Snell, a two-time Cy Younger Award winner, dropped to 0-2 within the Collection, permitting 5 runs, six hits and 4 walks over 6 2/3 innings.

Roberts shook up his slumping batting order, dropping Mookie Betts as little as third for the primary time since 2021 and benching outfielder Andy Pages in favor of Alex Name. It did not spark an offense that's hitting .202 within the Collection and has solo photographs on seven of its eight house runs. Los Angeles has scored simply 4 runs in its final 29 innings.

The Dodgers additionally threw 4 wild pitches in a span of two innings.

"We have got to make some changes," Roberts stated. "We have been in elimination video games, a core group of those guys, and we have got to discover a solution to win a recreation. That is it."

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Ashley Landis/AP Davis Schneider, batting first solely as a result of common leadoff hitter George Springer obtained harm in Sport 3, despatched Snell's first pitch into the left-field bleachers. Guerrero hit the third into the Dodgers' bullpen for his eighth house run of the postseason.

Davis Schneider mimics totally different stances in the course of the 12 months, together with Aaron Decide, Giancarlo Stanton, Bobby Witt Jr. and even the Dodgers' Will Smith in the course of the World Collection. The part-time outfielder and second baseman was in an previous stance of his from the minor leagues in opposition to Snell.

Snell began with three fastballs, then averted one other one for 22 consecutive pitches earlier than placing out Andres Giménez with a heater to finish the second.

Ernie Clement added a fourth-inning sacrifice fly for a 3-1 lead after proper fielder Teoscar Hernández got here up brief on a sliding catch try as Daulton Varsho's drive bounced into the right-field nook for a leadoff triple.

One other run scored on a wild pitch within the seventh by Edgardo Henriquez, who then allowed Bichette's RBI single. Isiah Kiner-Falefa added a run-scoring single within the eighth off Anthony Banda.

"I feel we simply need to be the hardest outs we are able to presumably be," Bichette stated. "We're a staff, man, and we'll do something we are able to to win."

Up subsequent Dodgers RHP Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Toronto RHP Kevin Gausman begin Sport 6 in a rematch of Sport 2, which Los Angeles received 5-1. Yamamoto pitched a four-hitter for the primary World Collection full recreation since 2015 and has pitched the primary consecutive postseason full video games since Curt Schilling had three in a row in 2001. Gausman allowed three runs in 6 2/3 innings.