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Teoscar Hernandez, Freddie Freeman, Dalton Rushing \u2014 with a pair \u2014 and Shohei Ohtani hit home runs to power the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 14-2 rout of the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday night at Rogers Centre.<\/p>\n
It was the first meeting between the teams since the Dodgers beat the Blue Jays here last fall in the deciding game of the World Series.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles starter Justin Wrobleski (1-0) allowed a run and two hits over five innings as the Blue Jays (4-6) stretched their losing skid to five games.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers (8-2), who outhit the Blue Jays 17-5, have won four straight.<\/p>\n
Hernandez hit a two-run homer off Toronto starter Max Scherzer in the first inning. The Blue Jays halved the deficit in the bottom half when Ernie Clement singled to plate George Springer.<\/p>\n
Scherzer (1-1) was replaced in the third inning by left-hander Josh Fleming, who made a throwing error on his first play. It wasn’t immediately clear why Scherzer was pulled early.<\/p>\n
Freeman hit a two-run blast later in the frame and Kyle Tucker drove in Rushing on a sacrifice fly in the fourth.<\/p>\n
Ohtani greeted reliever Joe Mantiply to the game in the sixth inning with a solo shot. Andy Pages helped pile on with a two-run double.<\/p>\n
Rushing led off the seventh with a solo blast and Hernandez added a two-run single as the game turned into a laugher. Rushing went deep again in the eighth.<\/p>\n
Both teams used position players on the mound in the ninth inning. Announced attendance was 40,991 for the opener of the three-game interleague series.<\/p>\n
Takeaways<\/p>\n
Blue Jays: Toronto catcher Alejandro Kirk was scheduled to undergo surgery Tuesday to repair a fractured left thumb. He took a foul tip off his catching hand in a game last Friday.<\/p>\n
Dodgers: Pages was named National League player of the week earlier in the day after hitting .583 with two homers over five games. He was 2 for 4 against the Blue Jays.<\/p>\n
Key Moment<\/p>\n
Myles Straw grounded out with the bases loaded to end Wrobleski’s 29-pitch opening frame.<\/p>\n
Key Stat<\/p>\n
The Dodgers are attempting to become the first team to win three straight World Series titles since the New York Yankees completed a three-peat in 2000.<\/p>\n
Coming Up<\/p>\n
Blue Jays starter Kevin Gausman (0-0, 0.75 earned-run average) was scheduled to face fellow right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto (1-1, 3.00) on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-587152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}