If the first four games of this Series have proven anything, it's that both superstars and rank-and-file players can play the hero role. In Game 5, it's a rematch of two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell and Blue Jays rookie Trey Yesavage, who, all together now, is making just the seventh start of his career.

In a World Series run, all 25 players on a team play an active role in the championship. The speedster takes a crucial base, the middle reliever gets out of jam, and the elite fielder makes a game-saving play. While plenty of members of the Toronto Blue Jays have filled those roles, it's easy to focus in on one.

Paisley sang the national anthem before Monday night’s marathon 18-inning Game 3 of the 2025 World Series, won by the Los Angeles Dodgers on Freddie Freeman’s walk-off home run in the bottom of the 18th inning. The 6-5 win for Los Angeles gives the Dodgers a 2-1 lead in the series over the Toronto Blue Jays.

Yet two swings by Will Smith did, and that was the very narrow margin between Gausman and Los Angeles Dodgers stalwart Yoshinobu Yamamoto, as Smith’s go-ahead home run in the seventh inning broke up a fantastic pitching duel and Yamamoto pitched a four-hitter, lifting the Dodgers to an eventual 5-1 victory at Rogers Centre.

Right-hander Kevin Gausman has had a strong postseason for the Blue Jays, and they are asking him to keep it going as their starter for Game 2 of the World Series against the Dodgers on Saturday.