TORONTO -- A signature staple of this Blue Jays offense has been its ability to grind out at-bats, so often making life miserable for opposing pitchers by pushing them to the point of exhaustion and an early exit.

It took all the way until Game 2 of the World Series. But this pesky bunch of Toronto hitters finally ran into a buzzsaw capable of truly shutting them down in Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who pulled the series even at 1-1 with a complete-game one-run gem on Saturday night in the Blue Jays’ 5-1 loss to the Dodgers at Rogers Centre.

Yamamoto, who became the first pitcher to throw back-to-back complete games in the postseason since Curt Schilling’s three straight in 2001 with the D-backs, kept the Blue Jays in a constant state of confusion by effectively mixing six different pitches

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