The Blue Jays ambushed Dodgers ace Blake Snell from the first pitch of Game 5 of the World Series on Wednesday night, as he surrendered a home run on his very first offering to Toronto leadoff hitter Davis Schneider, then served up another long ball just two pitches later to slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr. And while Snell gritted his teeth and settled in for much of the rest of the game, his final line—five earned runs, four walks and seven strikeouts in 6 2/3 innings—wasn‘t pretty compared to his previous results this postseason.
Some would attribute Snell’s lack of World Series success to a scrappy Blue Jays lineup whose put-it-in-play approach has led to the club grinding pitchers to a pulp and scoring a hefty amount of runs.
