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The Blue Jays and Dodgers enter Game 5 tied at two games apiece. The loser of this game will be a loss away from losing the World Series as it swings back to Toronto for Game 6 and a possible Game 7.
Dodgers’ pitcher Blake Snell hopes to make amends for his rough Game 1 start after taking the loss and giving up five runs on eight hits with three walks and four strikeouts.
Toronto will send rookie Trey Yesavage, they’re no. 1 prospect back to the mound.
In Game 1, he pitched four innings and avoided getting roughed up by limiting the Dodger damage to two earned runs while striking out 5 and walking three. The winning pitcher was Seranthony Dominguez in the Blue Jays 11-4 pounding of the Dodgers.
• 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.
• Since MLB introduced its balanced schedule in 2023, the Blue Jays are 5-4 over the Dodgers, winning four of the last six matchups by taking two games of both three-game series in 2024 and 2025.
• The Dodgers are the first defending World Series Champions to return to the World Series since the Phillies in 2009.
• Los Angeles is seeking to become the first club to win consecutive World Series Championships since the Yankees won three straight titles from 1998-2000.
• Dave Roberts has led the Dodgers to the World Series for the fifth time since becoming manager in 2016.
• The World Series has been tied at 2-2 48 times overall and 46 times under the current best-of-seven format, most recently in 2022 between the Astros and Phillies.
• 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 Dodgers are 19-19 all-time in Game 5 of a Postseason Series, including 14-16 in Game 5 of a best-of-seven series overall, and 8-12 in Game 5 of the World Series.
• The Blue Jays are 3-8 all-time in Game 5 of a Postseason series, including 2-8 in Game 5 of a best-of-seven series overall, and 0-2 in Game 5 of the Fall Classic.
• Toronto’s Game 5 pitcher, Trey Yesavage, has made four starts this Postseason, allowing nine runs on 14 hits with and 10 walks over 19.0 innings.
• Yesavage started Game 2 of the ALDS against the Yankees, Games 2 and 6 of the ALCS against the Mariners and Game 1 of the World Series against the Dodgers.
• He had 11 strikeouts, the most in a Postseason game in Blue Jays history, surpassing the previous record of eight shared by David Price (2x); Juan Guzman and Dave Stieb.
• Yesavage was the youngest player in this year’s Fall Classic at age 22-years, 88-days when he made his start for Game 1.
• Yesavage became the youngest pitcher to start a World Series game since Madison Bumgarner took the ball for San Francisco in Game 4 of the 2010 Fall Classic.
• Overall, he became be the 20th pitcher (29th occurrence) under the age of 23 to make a World Series start in Baseball history.
• The Dodgers ace, Blake Snell, has made four starts this Postseason, allowing seven runs on 14 hits with eight walks and 32 strikeouts. Snell started Game 1 of the Wild Card series against Cincinnati on September 30th, Game 2 of the NLDS against Philadelphia on October 6th, Game 1 of the NLCS against Milwaukee on October 13th, and Game 1 of the World Series against Toronto.
• Snell will face the Blue Jays for the 19th time in his career and third time this season after previously facing them 18 times as a member of the Rays, Padres, Giants and Dodgers.
• In regular season outings, went 5-4 with a 2.39 ERA, 42 walks and 97 strikeouts over 79.0 innings.
• Will make his second start of the 2025 World Series against the Jays…Was handed the loss in his first World Series start against the Jays, allowing five runs on eight hits with three walks and four strikeouts.
• He has pitched at least 5.0 innings in 15 of his appearances against the Blue Jays, while averaging over six strikeouts per outing versus Toronto.
• Snell went 5-1 with a 1.17 ERA in seven starts at Dodger Stadium this year.
• In the Postseason, is 5-2 with a 3.35 ERA, 41 strikeouts and one save in eight appearances at home…Pitching five games with the Rays, two with the Padres and one this Postseason, with the Dodgers.
• Snell is one of seven pitchers in MLB history to win a Cy Young award in both the American and National League and start a League Championship game.
• Snell is one of two pitchers this Postseason to deal at least 8.0 scoreless innings with no walks and at least 10 strikeouts, joining Cam Schlittler’s dominant start for the Yankees in Game 3 of the AL Wild Card Series.
• Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was named Most Valuable Player of the 2025 ALCS. He is the first Canada-born player to win any Postseason MVP Award (WS, ALCS or NLCS). He joined Paul Konerko of the White Sox in 2005 as the only first baseman to be named ALCS MVP.
• Guerrero’s seven homers are the most in a single Postseason in Blue Jays history.
• His 14 RBIs are also the most in a single Postseason in Blue Jays history, surpassing Molitor’s 13 in 1993.
• Freddie Freeman has reached base safely in each of his last 19 Postseason games dating back to Game 1 of the 2024 World Series, surpassing Chris Taylor (2017 NLDS G1-2018 NLCS G2) for the longest on-base streak in Dodgers’ Postseason history.
• Freeman’s walk off in Game 3 was the sixth time ever that the Dodgers won a World Series game in walk-off fashion.
• There has now been at least one walk-off win in each of the last three World Series with Adolis García also hitting a walk-off home run in Game 1 of the 2023 Fall Classic.
• Shohei Ohtani is the first player in Postseason history with multiple home runs, multiple doubles and multiple walks in a single game and just the second player ever to reach those marks in Baseball history.
• He became the first player to be issued four intentional walks in a Postseason game.
• Along with his two-homer game in Game 1 of the NL Wild Card Series and three-homer night in Game 4 of the NLCS, Ohtani is the first player with three multi-homer games in a single Postseason.
• Ohtani is the first player with three multi-homer games in a single Postseason.
• Ohtani’s eight home runs are tied for the most by a Dodger in a single Postseason matching Corey Seager (8 HR in 2020).
• The last player to hit a home run as a pitcher in a World Series game was Joe Blanton for Philadelphia in Game 4 of the 2008 Fall Classic.
• Ohtani was named Most Valuable Player of the 2025 NLCS.
• With a double in the seventh inning, Ernie Clement extended his hitting streak to 10 games, marking the longest hitting streak of the 2025 Postseason.
• Clement has hit safely in 13 of his 15 contests this Postseason, batting .393 (24-for-61) with four doubles, a triple, a homer, eight RBIs, a walk, 11 runs scored, a .406 on-base percentage, a .541 slugging percentage and a .947 OPS.
• He has racked up eight multi-hit games this October, which are tied for fourth-most within a single Postseason in Baseball history.
• Dave Roberts is in his 10th year as the Dodgers skipper and was named the 28th manager in Dodgers’ franchise history on November 23, 2015.
• The Dodgers manager has guided Los Angeles to an 11-3 record this Postseason.
• Roberts is the only National League manager in history to lead his team to the playoffs in his first 10 seasons and first to accomplish that feat since Torre led the Yankees to the Postseason in his first 12 seasons at the helm.
• Roberts is the ninth manager to lead a single club to the World Series at least five times, joining Hall of Famers Casey Stengel (10); Joe McCarthy (9); John McGraw (9); Connie Mack (8); Walter Alston (7); Miller Huggins (6); Joe Torre (6); and Bobby Cox (5).
• Toronto manager John Schneider is in his third full season as the manager of the Blue Jays after he was appointed the interim manager on July 13, 2022 and hired full-time on October 21, 2022, becoming the 14th manager in franchise history.
• Schneider has guided Toronto to an 9-6 record this Postseason.
• He is the only manager in franchise history to reach the Postseason in each of his first three seasons, leading the Blue Jays to their third consecutive Postseason berth.
• He earned his 300th career victory on September 25th, becoming the fourth Toronto manager with 300 career wins.
Compiled by Bill Lucey
Source: MLB Press Office
October 29, 2025
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