Blue Jays win Game 5 and head back to Toronto with World Series leadRookie starter Trey Yesavage put on a pitching clinic to lead the Toronto Blue Jays to a win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 5, sending the Jays back to Toronto with a chance to win the World Series.The LatestThe Toronto Blue Jays outplayed the Los Angeles Dodgers in spectacular fashion tonight to take a 3-2 lead in the World Series.Rookie pitcher Trey Yesavage, 22, wrote himself into the series record books with his performance on the mound, striking out 12 Dodgers in seven innings.The Jays’ momentum started with back-to-back home runs on the first pitches of the game from the Dodgers’ starter Blake Snell.Toronto only needs one more victory to win the World Series. Game 6 is set for Friday at Rogers Centre.UpdatesOctober 305 hours agoOne win to goMyles DichterGuerrero Jr. celebrates the Jays’ win tonight. (Ben Nelms/CBC)Two nights following a crushing loss after 18 innings of baseball, the Blue Jays made sure this game was over almost as soon as it began.The solo home runs from Davis Schneider and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. on the first and third pitches of the ballgame silenced the 50,000-plus fans inside Dodger Stadium.Then, rookie pitcher Trey Yesavage took the team to task with a record-breaking performance on the mound: seven innings, only three hits and not a single walk.Yesavage, just 22, also struck out 12 Dodgers to break the World Series record set by rookie Don Newcombe in 1949, smashed his own single-game post-season franchise record set during the ALDS, and became the first pitcher ever to strike out that many opponents without issuing a walk.Before tonight, we already knew this World Series would end in Canada. Now, the Canadian team is one victory away from hoisting the Commissioner’s Trophy on home soil.The teams meet for Game 6 at Rogers Centre in Toronto on Friday. Game 7, if necessary, is set for Saturday. We’ll continue to cover the series at cbc.ca/news.5 hours agoSnell pitched well, but Dodgers failed to hit: RobertsGeoff NixonSnell leaves the mound in the seventh inning of Game 5. (Ben Nelms/CBC)Roberts, the Dodgers manager, acknowledged that the Dodgers failed to execute on a number of fronts in tonight’s game, even if Snell “pitched a heck of a ballgame.””Things certainly get magnified in games like this, and especially when you’re not swinging the bats,” Roberts said in the post-game news conference.5 hours agoJays’ manager ‘blown away’ by Yesavage’s performanceGeoff NixonYesavage on the mound in the second inning. (Ben Nelms/CBC)John Schneider, the Jays manager, spoke to the media about Yesavage’s pitching after Game 5.”He was pretty good,” Schneider joked, before going on to say that what he and others saw the rookie do on the mound was “historic stuff.””Kind of blown away at what he did.”5 hours agoDavis Schneider couldn’t believe he hit a 1st pitch homerGeoff NixonDavis Schneider rounds the bases after hitting a homer on the very first pitch of Game 5. (Ben Nelms/CBC)Davis Schneider’s home run on the very first pitch of the ballgame gave Toronto a 1-0 lead, which quickly doubled to 2-0 when Guerrero hit a follow-up solo home run.After the victory, he said he didn’t even know he was going to be in the starting lineup until a few hours before the game.When he connected on that first pitch, he didn’t initially read it as a home run.”I didn’t think I got it. I knew I hit it well,” Schneider told Mae.5 hours ago’A lot of fun’ for Yesavage tonightGeoff NixonHow does Yesavage feel about his dominating performance in Game 5?”It was a lot of fun,” the pitcher told Sportsnet’s Hazel Mae in an on-field interview after Toronto’s 6-1 win.Yesavage’s performance on the mound put his team in the driver’s seat tonight.With a 3-2 lead in the World Series, the Blue Jays return to Toronto for Game 6 on Saturday — a ballgame that will be a must-win for the Dodgers, who now sit one game from elimination.5 hours agoRogers Centre erupts at the winJes MasonJays fan Colby Chansamone-Lam at Rogers Centre after the Game 5 victory. (Jes Mason/CBC)Everyone inside Rogers Centre was on their feet at the bottom of the ninth. Now, it’s all smiles, high fives, hugs and hype. The shouts of joy have continued as people stream out of the stadium — if anything, they’re getting louder — and some seem reluctant to leave the stands at all, lingering to bask in the victory. “I saw Yesavage pitch one month ago. I had to get his jersey, I knew he was something special,” said Colby Chansamone-Lam, a lifelong diehard fan who drove three and a half hours from Exeter, Ont., to watch the game on the big screen at Rogers Centre. “Jays in six!”6 hours agoHoffman closes out 9th as Jays win 6-1 Geoff NixonHoffman celebrates after striking out Dodgers’ Teoscar Hernández to end Game 5. (Ashley Landis/The Associated Press)Teoscar Hernández faced Hoffman with two out in the bottom of the ninth, a man on first, and the Dodgers trailing.Hoffman got the strikeout to secure the Game 5 victory.The Jays won 6-1 and took a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven World Series.6 hours agoSmith retires Betts, Freeman to reach 2 out in 9thGeoff NixonBetts came to bat with no outs, and a runner on first in the bottom of the ninth.He hit a fly ball to the Straw, in left field, to give the Jays their first out.Freeman got to a 2-2 count with Hoffman, before striking out on the fifth pitch.The Jays are a single out away from a Game 5 win.6 hours agoSmith gets leadoff single off Hoffman in 9thGeoff NixonBlue Jays closer Jeff Hoffman entered the game in the bottom of the ninth, tasked with finishing the job for Toronto in Game 5.He faced Smith, the Dodgers catcher, to start, who battled to hit a leadoff single.Betts came up next for the Dodgers, with a runner on first and no one out.6 hours agoTreinen steers trailing Dodgers through uneventful top of 9thGeoff NixonDodgers fans during the seventh inning. (Ben Nelms/CBC)Blake Treinen was in to try to wrap up the ninth for the Dodgers, despite a troublesome trio of Blue Jays — Guerrero, Bichette and Kirk — coming up to bat.Treinen got a quick ground out from Guerrero, which he fielded and threw to Freeman at first to record the first out of the inning.Bichette grounded out to second to give the Dodgers a second out.Treinen got a third groundout from Kirk to end the inning. That puts the Jays three outs from a potential Game 5 victory.
Toronto Blue Jays stun Los Angeles Dodgers 6-1 to take World Series lead
