Dodgers’ Yamamato puts a chill in Blue Jays’ bats in Game 2

After the carnage, the chill. Smokin’ hot to ice-picked cold.

From a defending championship team averse to going home two in the hole. From an upstart challenger — the same as they’ve always been, nervy gate-crashers at the October dance — salivating at the prospect of a commanding two-zip grip.

The Blue Jays were spit out 5-1 instead.

With Kevin Gausman making his World Series debut after a dozen years in the majors, against an opponent with grudge history (albeit from his days as a Giants rival) versus arguably the best arm in the Los Angeles Dodgers starting stable, however the stats may favour Blake Snell, he of at least one goat horn in Game 1. (It was a multi-horned beast in defeat, that thumping.)

But speaking of thumps …How much more pitcher abuse is George Springer expec