The Toronto Blue Jays appeared overmatched in their 5-1 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 2 of the World Series. Dodgers starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto delivered a complete game masterpiece, tying the series at a game apiece.
Toronto All-Star George Springer offered a blunt assessment of the team’s struggles against the Los Angeles ace. “(Yamamoto) mixed six or seven pitches, or five or six, whatever it is. He showed why he is who he is,” Springer told Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. “You can’t try to nitpick it or do whatever. It’s one of those situations where a very, very elite guy had a great game.”
Yamamoto allowed just four hits and struck out eight over nine innings. Springer was the lone Toronto run scorer when Alejandro Kirk drove him in with a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the first inning.
On the other side, Blue Jays starter Kevin Gausman was effective for most of the night. He gave up only one run over his first six innings but allowed solo home runs to Will Smith and Max Muncy in the top of the seventh inning.
“Oh, man, Kev was really good,” Blue Jays manager John Schneider told Keegan Matheson of MLB.com. “I thought Kev matched him pitch for pitch, really. They both had low pitch counts. It was kind of a classic pitchers’ duel and they made a couple more swings.”
The Dodgers added two more runs in the eighth inning, while the Blue Jays struggled to generate momentum against Yamamoto, ultimately falling 5-1 to the Dodgers.
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