Dodgers 14-2 Blue Jays (Apr 6, 2026) Game Recap
TORONTO — — Dalton Rushing hit two solo house runs for his first profession multihomer sport and the Los Angeles Dodgers went deep 5 occasions to rout the Toronto Blue Jays 14-2 on Monday night time in a rematch of the 2025 World Series.
Teoscar Hernández and Freddie Freeman every hit a two-run homer, and Shohei Ohtani added to single shot.
Los Angeles beat the Blue Jays in final 12 months’s Fall Classic for his or her second consecutive championship, profitable Game 7 at Toronto in 11 innings.
After scoring 31 runs in a three-game sweep at Washington, the Dodgers piled up 17 hits in opposition to the slumping Blue Jays. Rushing went 4 for 4 and likewise scored after he was hit by a pitch.
Rushing related on Tommy Nance’s first pitch of the seventh, then went deep once more off Spencer Miles within the eighth.
Hernández went 2 for five with a stroll and drove in 4 runs, whereas Freeman was 2 for 4 with a stroll and three RBI. Kyle Tucker had successful, walked and scored 3 times, and drove in a run with a sacrifice fly. Andy Pages had two hits, together with a two-run double.
Blue Jays catcher Tyler Heineman got here on to pitch the ninth and retired the aspect so as, Toronto’s solely 1-2-3 inning of the sport.
The Blue Jays misplaced their fifth straight and noticed right-hander and three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer (1-1) depart after two innings. The 41-year-old allowed two runs and two hits, walked one and struck out a pair.
Hernández homered off Scherzer within the first. Freeman drilled a 438-foot shot off Josh Fleming within the third.
Ohtani homered off Joe Mantiply within the sixth, his third in 4 video games.
Making his first begin of the season, Dodgers left-hander Justin Wrobleski (1-0) allowed one run and two hits in 5 innings.
World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto (1-1, 3.00 ERA) is scheduled to start out Tuesday in opposition to Blue Jays RHP Kevin Gausman (0-0, 0.75).
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