TORONTO – Teoscar Hernandez, Freddie Freeman, Dalton Rushing – with a pair – 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.\u00a0<\/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. Scherzer was dealing with forearm tendinitis but said post-game he expects to make his next start.<\/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.\u00a0<\/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.\u00a0<\/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.\u00a0<\/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
This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 6, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO – Teoscar Hernandez, Freddie Freeman, Dalton Rushing – with a pair – and Shohei Ohtani hit home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[2309,5,2316,2323,2314,2317,2313,2325,2335,57,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,381,4,2305,2303,2307,2327,2321,468,185,2339,2324,2311,70,2312,1039],"class_list":{"0":"post-667637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-ball-and-bat-games","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-baseball-competitions","11":"tag-baseball-events","12":"tag-baseball-finals","13":"tag-baseball-games","14":"tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","15":"tag-baseball-teams","16":"tag-home-run","17":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","18":"tag-major-league-baseball","19":"tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","20":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","21":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","22":"tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","23":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams","24":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","25":"tag-max-scherzer","26":"tag-mlb","27":"tag-mlb-playoffs","28":"tag-mlb-postseason","29":"tag-outdoor-sports","30":"tag-seasons-in-american-sport","31":"tag-seasons-in-baseball","32":"tag-shohei-ohtani","33":"tag-sports","34":"tag-sports-competitions","35":"tag-sports-events","36":"tag-team-sports","37":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","38":"tag-turf-sports","39":"tag-world-series"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}