As soon as Myles Straw saw Shane Bieber on Tuesday afternoon, he had a good feeling.

Straw knew the Toronto Blue Jays had asked a lot of Bieber over the previous 24 hours and that even bigger tests were coming soon, but from the moment he saw Bieber in the visiting clubhouse at Dodger Stadium, the pitcher was focused and calm.

“He was chilling in the lunch room doing his crossword,” Straw recalled. “He was just nice and calm. When he put his headphones on at his locker, he was kind of in that mood. You could tell he was locked in.”

As it turns out, Straw was right. Facing a lineup featuring future Hall of Famers Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman, Bieber pitched 5.1 innings of one-run baseball, allowing the Blue Jays to tie the World Series at two games apiece and put them

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