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The Blue Jays took Game 5 of the 121st World Series, with a commanding 6-1 win over the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium, and are now (with a 3-2 series lead) one win away from winning the 121st World Series.
The Blue Jays rookie, Trey Yesavage, 22 years old, used all his wizardry to confound the Dodgers through 7 innings, surrendering just one run (a solo shot by Kiki Hernandez in the third inning). The Dodger bats only managed three hits against the Pottstown, PA native with no walks and 12 strikeouts en route to his first victory in World Series competition.
Yesavage had an early 2-0 lead to work with behind a pair of back-to-back homers from Davis Schneider and Vladimir Guerrero Jr., marking the first time a club has hit back-to-back home runs to open a World Series game.
Toronto heads home with a 3-2 lead in the World Series, hoping to be the first club to clinch the Fall Classic at home since the Houston Astros in 2022.
• With MLB’s regular season beginning in Tokyo, Japan between the Dodgers and Cubs, 2025 will mark the first time in Baseball history that the season began and ended outside of the United States.
• The winner of the fifth game of the World Series has gone on to win the Fall Classic 68 times (68.9%), including 65 times (68.4%) under the best-of-seven format.
• Teams winning the next game when tied at 2-2 in the World Series have won 32 times overall (66.7%), and 31 times (67.4%) under the current best-of-seven format.
• The winner of Game 6 in the World Series has gone on to win the Fall Classic 51 times (71.2%), including 48 times (71.6%) under the best-of-seven format.
• Teams with a 3-2 lead in the World Series have won the Fall Classic 47 times (67.1%), including 46 times (68.7%) in the best-of-seven format.
• The Dodgers are 8-13 all-time in Game 6 of a Postseason Series, including 8-12 in Game 6 of a best-of-seven series overall, and 6-7 in Game 5 of the World Series.
• The Blue Jays are 5-2 all-time in Game 6 of a Postseason series, including 5-2 in Game 6 of a best-of-seven series overall, and 2-0 in Game 6 of the Fall Classic.
• Trey Yesavage put on a superb show in 7.0 innings of one-run ball, permitting just three hits with no walks and 12 strikeouts en route to earning the victory.
• He became the fifth pitcher in World Series history with no walks and at least 10 strikeouts, joining Clayton Kershaw (11 SO, G1 2017); Cliff Lee (10 SO, G1 2009); Don Newcombe (11 SO, G1 1949); and Deacon Phillippe (10 SO, G1 1903).
• He became the 11th pitcher (12th occurrence) with at least 12 strikeouts in a World Series start, and the first since Orlando Hernandez had 12 strikeouts in Game 3 of the 2000 Fall Classic.
• At 22 years, 93 days old, Yesavage became the youngest pitcher with at least 10 strikeouts in a World Series game, surpassing Smoky Joe Wood, who had 11 strikeouts in Game 1 of the 1912 World Series at age 22 years, 349 days old.
• Yesavage struck out all nine batters in the Dodgers starting lineup, becoming the third pitcher in World Series history to strike out each batter in a starting lineup, joining Hall of Famers Randy Johnson in Game 2 of the 2001 World Series and Bob Gibson in Game 1 of the 1968 World Series.
• Davis Schneider smashed Blake Snell’s first pitch of the night for a leadoff homer, marking the 27th leadoff home run in World Series history and the first since Kyle Schwarber in Game 6 of the 2022 Fall Classic.
• Vladimir Guerrero Jr. followed with a home run of his own on the third pitch of the night, marking the first time a club has hit back-to-back home runs to open a World Series game.
• According to Elias, it is just the second time in Postseason history that a team opened a game with back-to-back home runs, with Toronto joining Oakland, who did so in Game 3 of the 2002 ALDS when Ray Durham hit an inside-the-park home run, followed by a solo blast from Scott Hatteberg.
• 2025 marks the fourth World Series with at least one home run from at least four different internationally born players, joining 2019 (6 players); 2017 (5 players); and 2003 (5 players).
• Guerrero’s 27 hits in the 2025 Postseason are the most in a single Postseason in Blue Jays history, surpassing Hall of Famer Paul Molitor’s 21 hits in 1993.
• His 15 RBI are also the most in a single Postseason in Blue Jays history, surpassing Molitor’s 13 in 1993. With his homer in Game 4, Guerrero broke a tie with Hall of Famer Larry Walker (2004) for the most home runs in a single Postseason by a Canadian-born player.
• With a single in the eighth inning, Ernie Clement extended his hitting streak to 11 games, marking the longest hitting streak of the 2025 Postseason.
• His 11-game hitting streak is the third-longest in Blue Jays Postseason history within a single Postseason, breaking a tie with a pair of 10-game streaks by Hall of Famer Roberto Alomar and Devon White in 1993.
• Clément’s 11-game streaks trails only a 12-game stretch by Pat Borders in 1992 for the longest in Blue Jays Postseason history.
• Freddie Freeman was hit-by-pitch in the fourth inning and now has a hit in 15 of his 16 career World Series games.
• He has reached base safely in each of the Dodgers’ 15 games this Postseason, marking the longest on-base streak of any player in the Majors this October.
• There has not been a save recorded by either team so far in the 2025 World Series, making it is the first time no saves have been logged by either club through the first five games of a World Series since 1977, when the Yankees defeated the Dodgers, 4-2, with no saves being recorded in the six-game series.
Compiled by Bill Lucey
Source: MLB Press Office
October 30, 2025
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