After a jaw-dropping turn of events at Rogers Centre on Saturday, in which the Dodgers -- who had trailed the entire game -- tied Game 7 in the ninth before riding Will Smith’s home run in the 11th to a 5-4 win to become the first back-to-back champions in 25 years, their ace and ultimate workhorse Yoshinobu Yamamoto was named the recipient of the Willie Mays World Series Most Valuable Player Award presented by Chevrolet.

Yamamoto, who has cemented himself as a big-game pitcher this postseason, pitched the final 2 2/3 innings of the clinching game without allowing a single run, just 24 hours after starting Game 6. The right-hander began his World Series with a dazzling complete game in Game 2 , in which he struck out eight and yielded only four hits to a high-powered Jays lineup. Not

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