Enter the Yamamoto Dragon.

A creature of biting splitter and spitting slider. Took the former and barrel-housed with it.

Anything Kevin Gausman can splitter, Yoshinobu Yamamoto can splitter better. Well, differently, and in Game 6 of the World Series more effectively, discombobulating Blue Jays hitters. Even though Gausman, striking out eight L.A. Dodgers through the first three innings, set a Major League Baseball record. Admittedly an obscure stat. Except no stat is too esoteric or anal for baseball.

It does showcase, however, how commanding the raw-boned, loose-limbed Gausman was on the bump for the Jays on a night when — to adapt their adopted mantra — they could have won it all. Instead, despite a heart-clutching bottom of the ninth snuffed out by a double-play, the Jays a

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