Game 6 is tonight, and if you are a Dodgers fan, you have the right guy on the mound going for you, as you desperately need to win the final two games in Toronto.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto has thrown two consecutive complete games. One in the playoffs, one in the World Series. He has been as dominating as can be. Los Angeles needs another gem from him. 

You have to go all the way back to 1967 for the last guy to throw three consecutive postseason complete games. That was legendary Hall of Famer Bob Gibson. And, since they didn’t have playoffs then, only the World Series, his three complete games against the Red Sox catapulted the Cardinals to World Series victory. 

Gibson tossed twenty-seven innings, giving up three earned runs, getting three wins, and stifling Boston in Game 7. Even through that was an era when pitchers routinely went nine innings during the regular season, it was remarkable for him to do it three times in a World Series.

Yamamoto has the chance at Gibson-level immortality tonight. Why not? This World Series has already had so many amazing story lines. 

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