The Los Angeles Dodgers’ 5-1 Game 2 World Series win over the Toronto Blue Jays came with a complete game showing from starting pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto, but catcher Will Smith might have had the two biggest hits of the contest.

Smith got the Dodgers on the board in the top of the first inning with an RBI single that drove in Freddie Freeman. Perhaps more critically, with the score tied 1-1 in the top of the seventh, the 30-year-old drilled a solo home run that afforded Los Angeles a 2-1 edge that would eventually grow to a 5-1 lead that they would not relent.

According to Tyler Kepner of The Athletic, Smith’s heroics could be traced back to his Kentucky roots. Even if the two-time World Series champion is not flashy, he has built a reputation as a player who will rise to the o

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