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So what Yoshinobu Yamamoto did Saturday night in the World Series, retiring the final 20 Blue Jays he faced in a 5-1 Dodgers win, is very special. It was the first World Series complete game since Johnny Cueto shut down the Giants on two hits in 2015, just the sixth Series complete game this century, seventh since the playoff expansion in 1995. For some perspective, there were seven complete games in the 1968 World Series.
