Dodgers Take Game 2 of the World Series to Even Series With Blue Jays

Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers hits a single against Louis Varland of the Toronto Blue Jays during the eighth inning in Game 2 of the 2025 World Series at Rogers Centre in Toronto on Oct. 25, 2025. Gregory Shamus/Getty Images

TORONTO—Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched a World Series game from another era.

Sandy Koufax had October outings like this and so did Orel Hershiser, but those types of performances had vanished in modern baseball.