Yet it felt like a victory for the Blue Jays. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Alejandro Kirk drew full-count walks and Bo Bichette, in his first at-bat in seven weeks, swung away on a 3-0 pitch and nubbed a single to right field, to the delight of a roaring Rogers Centre crowd that feted their homegrown star with chants of "Let's Go Bo!"

YouTube The 2025 edition of the World Series got off to a raucous start after the Toronto Blue Jays took Game 1 with an offensive blitz, leaving everyone wondering if this could be the year the Commissioner's Trophy lands in Canada.

Yamamoto has thrown two straight complete games in the postseason, after a regular season in which the entire league produced only 29. His second CG — a four-hit, 105-pitch masterpiece in the Dodgers’ 5-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday night, tying the World Series at one game each — was arguably more breathtaking than the first.

When the World Series was last played outside of the United States, Toronto won its second straight title in 1993 when Joe Carter hit a ninth-inning homer off Philadelphia's Mitch Williams in Game 6, the second Series-ending home run after Pittsburgh's Bill Mazeroski against the New York Yankees in Game 7 in 1960.

Kershaw struck out Rafael Devers in the top of the fifth inning before exiting the game. Kershaw received a standing ovation after recording the out. The Dodgers earned a 6-3 victory over the San Francisco Giants and also clinched a playoff spot.

The Los Angeles Dodgers showed plenty of familiar traits while opening their title defense on Tuesday, and it was not necessarily a good thing.