Garion Thorne gives you a preview, prediction and pick for today\u2019s game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays.<\/p>\n
Things are getting dark in Blue Jays land.<\/p>\n
After a whirlwind season that saw the team come two outs away from winning the World Series, Toronto is just 4-7 to start 2026, having lost its last six games in a row. Injuries have taken their toll, but so has incredibly underwhelming offensive production. That\u2019s also a trend that\u2019s likely to continue on Wednesday afternoon, as the Jays will square-off with Shohei Ohtani. <\/p>\n
Can the Dodgers complete the sweep in this matinee at Rogers Centre? Let\u2019s preview the game and make a couple picks on the DraftKings Sportsbook.<\/p>\n
Dodgers vs. Blue Jays prediction, preview<\/p>\n
For the first time since 2023, it seems like we\u2019re going to get a full season for Shohei Ohtani hitting and pitching. So, you know, congrats to the 31-year-old for already winning the 2026 National League MVP. Wednesday will mark Ohtani\u2019s second start of the year, after the RHP tossed six scoreless innings against the Guardians back on March 31. Ohtani also only gave up a single hit in that outing, while striking out six and generating a 12.6% swinging strike rate. In other words, the man with a career 3.15 xERA looks to be in prime form.<\/p>\n
I can not say the same about the Blue Jays\u2019 offense. Toronto has only scored 11 total runs during its six-game losing streak \u2014 and one of those 11 was thanks solely to the ghost runner and an error in an extra innings defeat against the White Sox. The Jays have carried over their reluctance to whiff from 2025, as the club sports the third-lowest strikeout rate in MLB (19.7%), yet a .264 BABIP and a .115 ISO aren\u2019t doing anyone any favors. Toronto technically owns the league\u2019s fifth-best expected wOBA through 11 contests (.331), but an actual wOBA of .297 ranks 23rd. Call it bad luck. Call it poor sequencing. Call it whatever you want. The Jays are struggling to come up with the \u201cbig hit\u201d at the moment, and in no way can that be better illustrated than by the team\u2019s numbers with the bases loaded in 2026. Toronto is 1-for-17 (.059) with the sacks drunk. That\u2019s the fourth-most at-bats with the bases loaded. However, there\u2019s just been zero production in these high leverage situations.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Dodgers lead baseball in basically every single important run-scoring category. Los Angeles has a league-high 21 home runs. It\u2019s the only squad with a slugging percentage above .500 or an expected wOBA above .400. It\u2019s not even a name you\u2019d expect that\u2019s leading the charge. Ohtani, Freddie Freeman and Teoscar Hernandez have been great, but it\u2019s Andy Pages that\u2019s slashing .452\/.477\/.738 in his 44 plate appearances. Even with the loss of Mookie Betts (oblique), the Dodgers feel like an unstoppable juggernaut.<\/p>\n
So, good luck to Dylan Cease, who will be tasked with keeping the Blue Jays in this one. Cease was handed a $200 million contract by Toronto early in the winter, and the returns after two starts have been fantastic \u2014 even if the RHP fought his control a little his last time out. Cease has 18 strikeouts in 9.2 innings of work. A 2.79 ERA is backed up by an eye-popping 0.98 FIP. Cease will know Los Angeles well after spending the past two years in the NL West with the Padres. His results in this matchup varied in 2025. Cease did throw seven scoreless innings against the Dodgers with 11 strikeouts on June 10, yet he followed that up by surrendering nine earned runs in his next two outings versus Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
Dodgers vs. Blue Jays pick, best bet<\/p>\n