World Series Game 5 live updates: Blue Jays lead Dodgers 2-0 in third inning

Blake Snell rebounded with a scoreless second against the Dodgers, ending the inning by striking out Addison Barger with the very first fastball he threw since opening the game with three straight. Two of those, of course, resulted in homers.

Snell’s average on those four fastballs has been 96.6 mph, up 1.5 mph from the regular season. His slider is up 1.9 mph, putting it at 90.1 mph on average. There’s no good way to argue that it’s helped so far, but he’s obviously amped up.

After the first inning from hell — two home runs allowed to open the game — Snell got Ernie Clement and Addison Barger to ground out before striking out Andrés Giménez.

2-0 Blue Jays heading to the bottom of the second.

Shohei Ohtani grounded out, Will Smith flew out and Mookie Betts struck out to end the inning.

Including the postseason, Snell had given up a total of four homers in 15 starts this season before giving up two on his first three pitches tonight. He last allowed two homers in a game on April 14, 2024, against the Rays.

It’s the second time ever a postseason game has started with back-to-back homers. It previously happened in the 2002 ALDS, with Ray Durham and Scott Hattegberg going back to back for the A’s.

Davis Schneider homered to left field on the very first pitch of the game, and on Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s second pitch, he also went yard.

It was the first time in World Series history that two players have hit back-to-back home runs to open a game.

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Shane Bieber elbowed Shohei Ohtani right out of the spotlight.

Bieber, a former Cy Young Award winner who returned from Tommy John surgery just two months ago, outpitched the celebrated two-way star and struck him out twice in winning his World Series debut.

“Yeah, it was awesome,” Bieber said with a wide smile after pitching Toronto over the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-2 last night to tie the World Series at two games each.

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Shohei Ohtani and Vlad Guerrero Jr. have been two of the most dominant hitters this postseason, and their combined slugging abilities have landed them in the history books. After Game 4, both hitters became the third pair to hit at least seven homers in a postseason.

Trey Yesavage rocks back to deliver a pitch and his arm whips down from behind his head as his body tilts to the left, the highest arm slot of any right-handed pitcher this postseason.

“I’m sure some people think that would hurt to go all the way up there,” Toronto’s 22-year-old rookie said. “Everyone thinks it’s unique, which it is.”

Yesavage starts Game 5 of the World Series for the Blue Jays tonight in his fifth postseason outing after just three career regular-season starts. He allowed two runs over four innings in the opener against the Dodgers, lacking the explosive fastball that dominated the New York Yankees for 5 1/3 hitless innings in the AL Division Series.

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