In the NLCS, Los Angeles Dodgers ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto threw the MLB postseason’s first complete game in eight years. On Saturday in the World Series, he threw the MLB postseason’s first complete game in 11 days.

Behind another dominant performance from their best pitcher this season, the Dodgers shook off a one-sided Game 1 with a 5-1 win in Game 2 to tie the series 1-1 as it heads to Los Angeles. Game 3 begins at 8 p.m. ET Monday at Dodger Stadium.

Game 2 saw the two teams send their best pitchers of the regular season to the mound, and they both lived up to the billing. Yamamoto and Kevin Gausman went blow-for-blow, both shaking off an early run with a double-digit streak of retired batters.

It was Gausman who blinked first. After putting down 17 consecutive batters, Will Smith hit a ball 404 feet to the second deck to break the 1-1 tie.

Max Muncy followed two batters later with another homer, and that was it for Gausman. The Dodgers added another two runs in the eighth inning against the Blue Jays’ bullpen.

Meanwhile, Yamamoto kept dealing.

A Blue Jays offense that has stomped pitcher after pitcher this postseason couldn’t figure out his six-pitch mix, and Yamamoto dominated more and more as the game went on. After allowing his only run in the third inning, he put down 20 straight batters to finish the game.

His final line: 9 innings, 4 hits, 1 earned run, 0 walks and 8 strikeouts on 105 pitches. It was ace stuff, from an ace. It was why the Dodgers gave him $325 million before his first MLB pitch — because they and most other teams knew just how good his stuff was.

It was the first complete game in the World Series since Johnny Cueto threw one for the Kansas City Royals in 2015, and it was the first time a pitcher threw back-to-back complete games since Curt Schilling did it in 2001 with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Behind the plate for the whole thing was Smith, who drove in runs on two of his plate appearances, in addition to the homer. In other words, Los Angeles’ battery singlehandedly won this game.

Dodgers grab momentum as World Series heads to Los Angeles

This was always the plan for the Dodgers: an offense that led the National League in homers this season combined with an all-time starting pitcher run to hide a suspect bullpen. It will be up to Tyler Glasnow to keep that going in Game 3, while former Dodger Max Scherzer takes the mound for the Blue Jays.

As for Toronto, the good vibes from Game 1 are now in short supply. Its offense did its thing against Blake Snell and a couple of members of the Dodgers’ bullpen on Friday, but now the Jays head to Chavez Ravine for three straight games in which they will face Glasnow, Shohei Ohtani and Snell again — and Snell is the kind of pitcher who can go from struggling to dominating at the flip of a switch.

Scherzer got the job done in Game 4 of the ALCS against the Seattle Mariners, but this Dodgers offense is a very different animal. We’ll see what happens Monday.