Will Smith and Max Muncy each hit home runs in the seventh inning, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto went deep as well in the Dodgers’ 5-1 win over the Blue Jays in Game 2 of the World Series on Saturday night at Rogers Centre in Toronto.

The Fall Classic is now tied at one game apiece, making Game 5 necessary and ensuring there will be three games at Dodger Stadium beginning Monday night.

Because the Dodgers swept the NLCS and the long built-in layoff before the World Series, Yamamoto was pitching Saturday on 10 days rest after his complete game in Game 2 of the NLCS in Milwaukee. He followed it up with another in Toronto, the first major league pitcher with consecutive postseason complete games since Curt Schilling had three straight for the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 2021 NLDS and NLCS.

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