On this night, the mercenaries prevailed, in a pummeling so relentless and a silencing so rapid that a three-peat appeared all but inevitable: Dodgers 14, Blue Jays 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n Dalton Rushing celebrates with teammates in the dugout after hitting his second home run of the game in the eighth inning of a 14-2 win over Toronto on Monday.<\/p>\n (Mark Blinch \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n \u201cThese fans, sadly, didn\u2019t want to see us come to town,\u201d Dodgers catcher Dalton Rushing said, \u201cand rightfully so, after what we did tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n Those fans did want to see the Dodgers, but they did not want to see this. On a night the Dodgers fielded a lineup without Mookie Betts<\/a> and Will Smith<\/a>, the team hit five home runs \u2014 two by Rushing \u2014 and scored in every inning but the second and ninth. Of the six Toronto pitchers, the only one to hold the Dodgers scoreless was catcher Tyler Heineman.<\/p>\n To the Dodgers, well, it was another day on the job, if a bit louder than usual at the start. They had a game to win on the long road toward October and, as they often do, they won.<\/p>\n In Toronto, however, pitcher Kevin Gausman said, \u201cIt feels like we\u2019re getting ready for Game 8.\u201d The fans mercilessly booed Shohei Ohtani<\/a>, who turned down $700 million from the Blue Jays to take $700 million from the Dodgers, and outfielder Kyle Tucker<\/a>, who turned down $350 million (over 10 years) from the Blue Jays to take $240 million (over four years) from the Dodgers.<\/p>\n They even booed Justin Wrobleski<\/a>, the Dodgers\u2019 starting pitcher, and Miguel Rojas, usually an infielder but on Monday the Dodgers\u2019 final pitcher. Wrobleski, who won his seventh major league game Monday, said he expected the boos.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was fun,\u201d he said. \u201cThey care about baseball here. It\u2019s a fun environment. If people weren\u2019t a little upset and a little, I\u2019d say, passionate about what happened last year in the World Series, maybe they\u2019re not real fans.\u201d<\/p>\n The boos could have been a sign of respect, or of a long memory: about the ninth most-memorable part of Game 7 was Wrobleski hitting Toronto infielder Andr\u00e9s Gimenez<\/a>, then shouting language so profane Wrobleski later said he apologized to his mother for using it. You cannot be a nobody if you can get the benches to clear in Game 7.<\/p>\n \u201cThey wouldn\u2019t boo me,\u201d Wrobleski said, \u201cif they didn\u2019t know who I was.\u201d<\/p>\n Dodgers pitcher Justin Wrobleski delivers during the first inning against the Blue Jays on Monday.<\/p>\n (Mark Blinch \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n The Dodgers led 4-1, then 5-1, then 6-1, then 9-1, and that was before the sixth inning was done.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you score a lot of runs, you\u2019re going to take the crowd out of it,\u201d Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman<\/a> said.<\/p>\n \u201cI think the media and everyone else was more hyped up. It\u2019s a new team, new year. We\u2019ve got different guys on our team too. But we obviously understand it\u2019s a World Series matchup.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Dalton](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775567174_449_.jpeg\")
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