TORONTO -- The World Series is already so unforgiving, but the bar is pushed even higher into the sky when the Dodgers are in the other dugout.

Kevin Gausman pitched well in Game 2, truly dominant for much of his first career World Series start, but this is why the losses grow even crueler as October stretches on. Only greatness can beat the Dodgers, so a good night from Gausman just wasn’t enough in the Blue Jays’ 5-1 loss on Saturday at Rogers Centre.

Drop a performance like this into any Tuesday night in May or June and the Blue Jays would be thrilled. They’d likely stroll out of the stadium with a win, too, but these are the Dodgers and the other guy on the mound was Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who went blow for blow with Gausman for six innings but kept his greatness burning just a bit

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