Wildly embarrassing Game 5 might've just sealed Dodgers' World Series fate

If you thought that the Dodgers just seemed to peter out and die in Game 4, they somehow managed to do it even more in Game 5.

Blake Snell was on the mound, looking to redeem himself after a five-run, five-inning Game 1 and a failure to volunteer himself to pitch in Game 3. He immediately gave up a first-pitch homer to Davis Schneider, and then a second-pitch homer to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to give the Blue Jays an immediate lead.

Fans knew that the Dodgers' offense, which only managed to score two runs in Game 4, just doesn't have the grit right now to even come back from a two-run deficit. Two runs.

And we were right.

Aside from a solo homer from Kiké Hernández, the offense might as well have stayed home. Blue Jays rookie Trey Yesavage only gave up three hits in seven innings including the homer to Hernández. The other two were for Teoscar Hernández. Otherwise, he struck out 12 batters to set a postseason record for a rookie.

The Dodgers made their own kind of history too, but being the first team to throw three wild pitches in one World Series inning isn't the kind of history worth remembering.

Dodgers put on a pathetic showing in Game 5 and head back to Toronto with their backs to the wall

The Dodgers have Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound for Game 6, which gives them their best possible chance to force a Game 7. Anyone who doubted that Yamamoto could pitch a second consecutive complete game in the postseason was proven wrong in Game 2 (looking at you, Derek Jeter), but three in a row? It feels like a safe enough bet to say that he probably won't do that.

And the Dodgers' offense cannot be trusted to back him up, even if they managed to win during probable Toronto starter Kevin Gausman's last start.

LA did indeed go out with a whimper in Game 5. Although Will Smith got a leadoff single off of closer Jeff Hoffman, Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, and Teoscar Hernández went down in order to make Game 5 somehow even more painful than Game 4.

And now they're headed back to Toronto, where they'll have to win two straight in front of a hostile crowd. Suffice to say that no one has any confidence they'll be able to pull it off.