{"id":249294,"date":"2025-10-30T03:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T03:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/249294\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T03:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T03:56:07","slug":"blue-jays-ambush-dodgers-to-move-within-1-win-of-world-series-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/249294\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays ambush Dodgers to move within 1 win of World Series title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three pitches. Two swings. One win away.<\/p>\n<p>Davis Schneider and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit back-to-back home runs to lead off the game, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-1 in Game 5 of the World Series Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Now a victory away from their first title in 32 years, the Blue Jays will have the chance to clinch back in Toronto on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Two nights after battling during 18 innings of baseball, only to ultimately lose, the Blue Jays made sure this game was over almost as soon as it began.<\/p>\n<p>The homers for Schneider, on the first pitch of the game, and Guerrero, on the third, silenced the 50,000-plus at Dodger Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Then, rookie Trey Yesavage quieted the Dodgers\u2019 bats, too, dealing over seven innings with just three hits and no walks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A baseball player swings, misses and loses his helmet as a catcher and umpire look on. The pitcher waits on the mound. \"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761796567_835_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4995093228655545\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Los Angeles Dodgers&#8217; Shohei Ohtani loses his helmet while striking out against the Jays&#8217; pitcher Trey Yesavage, left, during the third inning in Game 5 of the World Series on Wednesday in Los Angeles. (David J. Phillip\/The Associated Press)<\/p>\n<p>He also struck out 12 \u2014 breaking the rookie World Series record set by Don Newcombe in 1949, smashing his own single-game post-season franchise record set in the ALDS, and became the first pitcher ever to strike out that many opponents without issuing a walk.<\/p>\n<p>And just like that, Toronto can now smell a championship.<\/p>\n<p>More to come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three pitches. Two swings. One win away. Davis Schneider and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit back-to-back home runs to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-249294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}