{"id":250077,"date":"2025-10-30T03:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T03:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/250077\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T03:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T03:29:10","slug":"blue-jays-on-brink-of-world-series-crown-after-yesavage-tames-dodgers-in-game-5-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/250077\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays on brink of World Series crown after Yesavage tames Dodgers in Game 5 | World Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rookie Trey Yesavage struck out 12 batters to set a World Series record and the Toronto Blue Jays opened Game 5 with back-to-back home runs in a 6\u20131 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> on Wednesday night, moving within one victory of their first championship in 32 years.<\/p>\n

Davis Schneider and Vladimir Guerrero Jr homered on Blake Snell\u2019s first and third pitches \u2013 the first consecutive homers ever to start a World Series<\/a> game \u2013 as Toronto jumped to a quick 2\u20130 lead before a stunned Dodger Stadium crowd.<\/p>\n

Yesavage, 22, overpowered the defending champions with a mix of splitters and sliders, becoming the first Series pitcher with 12 strikeouts and no walks. He gave up three hits in seven innings, the only run coming on Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s solo homer in the third.<\/p>\n

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Schedule<\/p>\n

Best-of-seven series. All times Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4).<\/p>\n

Fri 24 Oct\u00a0Game 1: Toronto Blue Jays 11, LA Dodgers 4<\/a><\/p>\n

Sat 25 Oct\u00a0Game 2: LA Dodgers 5, Toronto Blue Jays 1<\/a><\/p>\n

Mon 27 Oct\u00a0Game 3: LA Dodgers 6, Toronto Blue Jays 5 (18 innings)<\/a><\/p>\n

Tue 28 Oct\u00a0Game 4: Toronto Blue Jays 6, LA Dodgers 2<\/a><\/p>\n

Wed 29 Oct\u00a0Game 5: Toronto Blue Jays 6, LA Dodgers 1<\/p>\n

Fri 31 Oct Game 6: LA Dodgers at Toronto Blue Jays, 8pm<\/p>\n

Sat 1 Nov Game 7: LA Dodgers at Toronto Blue Jays, 8pm*<\/p>\n

*if necessary<\/p>\n

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Bo Bichette\u2019s two-run double in the fifth extended the lead, and Cavan Biggio added an RBI single in the eighth to put the game out of reach.<\/p>\n

Snell was tagged for four runs and five hits in four innings as the Dodgers\u2019 bats went quiet for a second straight night.<\/p>\n

The Blue Jays lead the best-of-seven series 3\u20132. Game 6 is Friday in Toronto, where they can clinch their first World Series crown since 1993.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rookie Trey Yesavage struck out 12 batters to set a World Series record and the Toronto Blue Jays…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-250077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}