Coming off a three-hit performance against Milwaukee in the National League Championship Series, Yamamoto delivered the first postseason complete game since 2017. Impressively, he retired his final 20 batters, marking the first complete game in the Series since Kansas City’s Johnny Cueto accomplished the feat against the New York Mets in Game 2 of 2015.
No pitcher had thrown consecutive complete games in the postseason since Arizona ace Curt Schilling, who tossed three in a row during the 2001 NL Division Series and NLCS.
On the offensive side, Will Smith contributed three RBIs for the Dodgers. He broke a 1-all tie with a seventh-inning home run off Kevin Gausman, who had retired 17 batters consecutively. Later in the inning, Max Muncy added another solo homer to extend the Dodgers’ lead.