The Los Angeles Dodgers evened the World Series with a 5-1 win in Game 2 behind two spurts of offense and nine brilliant innings on the mound from Yoshinobu Yamamoto. One day after Toronto displayed why its offense led all postseason teams in most hitting metrics in an 11-4 win, the Blue Jays were silenced by Yamamoto’s bravura pitching. The series is tied 1-1 entering Game 3 on Monday in Los Angeles. After striking out the side in the eighth inning, Yamamoto had retired 17 consecutive hitters while throwing an economical 93 pitches. Then he returned for the ninth, trying to become the first pitcher since Madison Bumgarner in 2014 to throw two complete games in a single postseason. He also became the first pitcher since Curt Schilling in 2001 to throw complete games in consecutive postseason starts. Yamamoto showed no signs of fatigue or vulnerability in the ninth inning. He faced only three hitters in the ninth, marking the sixth consecutive inning he faced the minimum. He finished with four hits allowed, and no walks, to go with eight strikeouts. The one run scored by Toronto tied for its fewest of the postseason. Will Smith had three RBIs for Los Angeles, including a home run that traveled into the second deck in Toronto in the top of the seventh inning. Max Muncy homered two hitters later to extend the lead to 3-1. One inning later, the Dodgers chased Toronto’s Kevin Gausman from the game after loading the bases. Jeff Hoffman replaced Gausman, but quickly ran into trouble. His wild pitch led to a run by Andy Pages, and two batters later Smith grounded into a fielder’s choice that extended the Dodgers’ lead to 5-1. Smith opened the game with a first-inning single that scored Freddie Freeman for a 1-0 Dodgers lead. The score remained unchanged until the third, when Toronto answered with a sacrifice fly to score George Springer. Neither team scored for the next three innings, as Yamamoto and Gausman took turns blanking a pair of elite offenses. At one point, both pitchers needed just six pitches apiece to get out of an inning, and Gausman kept the Dodgers scoreless for five consecutive innings while retiring 16 consecutive batters. But unlike in Game 1, Toronto's offense never awoke late in the game, and because of it, the reigning MLB champion is back in the series.