After the Toronto Blue Jays opened the World Series with a dominant win over the Los Angeles Dodgers, the defending champions got their revenge in Game 2.

The Dodgers evened the Fall Classic on Saturday night in Toronto with a convincing win — featuring big seventh-inning home runs by Will Smith and Max Muncy and a dominant complete-game performance from Yoshinobu Yamamoto. They now head home for Monday’s Game 3.

Here’s how L.A’s victory went down, from our in-game analysis to our postgame takeaways.

Key links: World Series schedules, results

Takeaways

Series tied at 1

It was over when …: The Dodgers tacked on a pair of insurance runs in the eighth inning, one frame after two solo home runs chased Kevin Gausman from the game. Gausman had retired 17 straight and was cruising until Will Smith yanked a home run down the left-field line. Max Muncy followed with another two batters later for a 3-1 advantage. Scraping across two more runs in the eighth — one coming on a wild pitch, another on a groundout — gave Yoshinobu Yamamoto plenty of cushion, even if he didn’t need it. — Jeff Passan

Game 2 star: Yamamoto threw his second straight complete game this October, needing 105 pitches to finish his four-hit, eight-strikeout, no-walk gem. When the Dodgers gave Yamamoto a 13-year, $325 million contract, they believed he would be one of the best pitchers in Major League Baseball. Through two seasons, with a 2.28 postseason ERA in eight playoff starts, he already has proven he is. And to do so against the Blue Jays’ potent offense made his performance Saturday even more impressive. — Passan

The stat that defined the game: The last pitcher to toss two consecutive complete games within a single postseason was Curt Schilling (three straight) in 2001. — ESPN Research

What’s next for the Blue Jays: The Blue Jays will give the ball to 41-year-old Max Scherzer hoping that the future Hall of Famer can repeat his performance in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series. The right-hander, with Toronto trailing 2-1 in the series, held the Seattle Mariners to two runs over 5 ⅔ innings in his first start in three weeks. Scherzer should expect a rude welcome at Dodger Stadium four years after he declared himself unable to start in Game 6 of the 2021 NLCS because of arm fatigue. The Dodgers lost that night and were eliminated from the postseason. Dodgers fans haven’t forgotten. Offensively, Toronto seeks to rebound from an uncharacteristically poor home showing in Game 2. The Blue Jays also scored just seven runs and lost two of three games in Los Angeles in August. — Jorge Castillo

What’s next for the Dodgers: The Dodgers will hope Tyler Glasnow can not only pick up where Yamamoto left off after his mastery of the Blue Jays in Game 2, but continue what has been a dominant postseason in his own right. In two starts against the Milwaukee Brewers and Philadelphia Phillies, Glasnow has allowed just one run on five hits in 11 2/3 innings, striking out 16 batters. Both of those starts — like this next one — occurred at home, and that’s ideal; Glasnow had a 2.77 ERA in 11 starts at Dodger Stadium during the regular season, as opposed to a 4.08 ERA in seven starts on the road. — Alden Gonzalez

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The U.S. women’s gymnastics team won just two medals at the World Championships in Jakarta this past week. It was the country’s lowest medal total in the international competition since 2001. 

The U.S.’s only two medalists were Leanne Wong, who won an all-around silver, and Joscelyn Roberson, who won bronze on vault. 

China finished ahead of the U.S. with three women’s medals, while neutral athletes competing on behalf of Russia also won three. 

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U.S. program lead Chellsie Memmel addressed the team’s underperformance.

“It was rough,” Memmel said, according to Olympics.com. “There were some very good pieces, but then there was rough. I didn’t feel like there was an attack of their events and their skills overall. There were still good things, but I have work to do.

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Leanne Wong of United States of America prepares for her exercise during the Women’s qualification on day three of the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships at Indonesia Arena on October 21, 2025 in Jakarta, Indonesia.  (Tom Weller/Getty Images)

“We’ll talk it over, but not beat it to death,” Memmel continued. “They know what happened. They know they didn’t perform at their best, so they’re going to want to come in and go into training and reset.”

The U.S. is used to regular dominance in the women’s category in international gymnastics. This was only the third year since 2006 in which the U.S. didn’t finish with the most women’s medals since 2006, aside from 2017 and 2021, when it tied with Japan and Russia for most. 

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United States’ Dulcy Caylor competes on the balance beam during the women’s all-around final at the 53rd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Jakarta on October 23, 2025. (Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP)

This year, the team was without superstars Simone Biles, Suni Lee, Jade Carey and Jordan Chiles. 

If this past week is any indication, it could spell trouble for the U.S. gymnastics women’s dynasty heading into the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. 

“For me, it means going into each turn with the intent that it’s going to be great, and being confident with it,” Memmel explained. “Believing in that – believing in themselves – to do that and know that they can perform it when the time comes to raise their hand.”

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