The Dodgers needed to make a statement coming out of a mortifying Game 1 of the World Series, when the Blue Jays finally got to a Dodgers starter and exposed LA's bullpen. It was Dodgers' fans biggest fear for the postseason, manifested. Emmet Sheehan and Anthony Banda gave up nine runs (though three were put on Blake Snell's tab) in one awful sixth inning.
In Game 2, the Dodgers scored in the first once again, with a Freddie Freeman double then Will Smith single off of Toronto starter Kevin Gausman. Yoshinobu Yamamoto seemed to shake a little in the early going, but after giving up a run on a sac fly, he and Gausman were mowing down their opposing lineups.