LOS ANGELES (AP) — Davis Schneider likes to imitate other players' batting stances during major league games. Sometimes, the Blue Jays' affable backup outfielder will be Aaron Judge, other times Bobby Witt Jr., or maybe Giancarlo Stanton.

He'll even pretend to be Will Smith, the Dodgers' slugging catcher who crouched behind Schneider to catch the first pitch of Game 5 on Wednesday night.

Smith never got that ball, because Schneider's impersonation of a World Series hero was absolutely pitch-perfect.

Toronto hit the first back-to-back homers to begin a game in World Series history when Schneider and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. connected on the first and third pitches by the Los Angeles Dodgers' Blake Snell to set a defiant early tone for the Jays against the defending champions.

Those homers

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