TORONTO – Yoshinobu Yamamoto on Saturday hurled his second straight complete game of the Major League Baseball postseason, propelling the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 5-1 win against the Toronto Blue Jays to tie the World Series at one win apiece.

Yamamoto (3-1) picked up to go perfect from the fourth inning in Game 2 at Rogers Centre, where the right-hander held the Blue Jays — who scored 11 runs on 14 hits in Friday’s Game 1 win — to a run on four hits with no walk while striking out eight in a 105-pitch gem.

“I think it was wonderful,” Yamamoto said of his own performance. “It was a game we definitely could not drop, and I felt we’d be in a good flow if we managed to get back to LA with the series tied at 1-1.”

Yamamoto had only thrown his first complete game in MLB in his last outing, also a 5-1 win against the Milwaukee Brewers in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series.

He became the first pitcher with back-to-back complete games in the postseason since the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Curt Schilling in 2001, according to MLB.com.

While getting early run support from Will Smith when he singled in the opening run in the first inning, Yamamoto made a patchy start to the game in the home half, giving up a double and single before striking out two of his next three batters to get out of the jam.

The right-hander then gave up a single to open the second and a hit batsman at the start of the third, allowing the Blue Jays a game-tying run in the inning on an Alejandro Kirk sacrifice fly.

But he did not allow a single runner from the following frame, using his collection of pitches efficiently to keep the Blue Jays at bay in a stellar effort that saw him strike out the side in the eighth.

“I managed to use my curveballs well in key moments and that also helped my splitters work effectively,” he said. “I had runners on base in the first and also hit a batter later but managed to pitch calmly after that.”

Catcher Smith handed Yamamoto a one-run lead again in the seventh when he pulled a solo home run to left off Kevin Gausman (2-2) with one out, and Max Muncy also went deep to left with two outs to chase the right-hander.

A run was scored on a wild pitch and another on a Smith ground out in the eighth for the Dodgers, for whom Shohei Ohtani went 1-for-4 while scoring the last run of the game.

Manager Dave Roberts said the two-way star will start on the mound in Tuesday’s Game 4 at Dodger Stadium.