"But regardless of how good their season was, the prevailing thought going into the series was that the Los Angeles Dodgers are just far and above a better team than Toronto. With Game 1 in the books and the Blue Jays winning 11-4, that margin may be shrinking in the minds of many. Still, the Dodgers overall might be the most formidable opponent Toronto has ever seen in a World Series."
"The Blue Jays first trip to the Fall Classic was in 1992 and many of the same narratives from them are returning 33 years later. In '92 the Braves were lead by a vaunted pitching staff comprised of two future Hall of Famers in Tom Glavine and John Smoltz, while Steve Avery and Charlie Liebrandt carried the bulk of the work at the back end of the rotation."
The Toronto Blue Jays achieved a surprising turnaround, rising from last in the American League to one of the franchise's best seasons and reaching the World Series. Pre-series consensus favored the Los Angeles Dodgers as a far superior team, but Toronto's 11-4 Game 1 victory narrowed that perceived gap. The Dodgers present a dominant starting group — Blake Snell, Tyler Glasnow, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Shohei Ohtani — whose strong regular-season and postseason performance mirrors the Braves' 1992 rotation of Glavine, Smoltz, Avery and Leibrandt. The 1992 Braves featured four innings-eaters with low ERA+ and FIP, and multiple complete games.
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