Dodgers Go On Scoring Spree In First Game Back In Toronto Since World Series Win

TORONTO — Two players pinch ties to Canada had nan large swings for nan Dodgers early successful a 14-2 win against nan Blue Jays Monday, and nan Dodgers piled connected pinch a large boost from backup catcher Dalton Rushing.

Left fielder Teoscar Hernández, who escaped nan boos during lineup introductions because of nan six seasons he spent pinch nan Blue Jays, and Freddie Freeman, who has played for nan Canadian nationalist team, some deed two-run location runs successful nan World Series rematch.

Rushing, giving 2025 World Series Game 7 leader Will Smith a time disconnected down nan plate, recorded nan first multi-homer, four-hit crippled of his awesome convention career.

“Obviously a batch of awesome memories,” manager Dave Roberts said earlier nan game. “I don’t consciousness arsenic overmuch anxiousness arsenic I did nan past clip we were here, understandably. So to travel backmost here, and nan stakes aren’t arsenic precocious arsenic they were successful October is different, but I’m judge nan players will beryllium fresh to spell and nan fans are going to beryllium beautiful excited.”

Just 5 months ago, nan Dodgers celebrated their World Series triumph connected nan aforesaid field. Breaking Blue Jays fans’ hearts pinch an instant-classic Game 7.

On Monday, nan fans successful attendance showed they hadn’t forgotten. Their boos and cheers punctuated an action-packed first inning.

Dodgers prima Shohei Ohtani celebrates successful nan dugout aft hitting a location tally successful nan sixth inning against Toronto connected Monday.

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After Hernández’s location tally gave nan Dodgers a lead, Dodgers starting pitcher Justin Wrobleski came to beryllium haunted by a leadoff walk. He retired nan adjacent 2 batters, pinch nan thief of a leaping drawback against nan wall by correct fielder Kyle Tucker. But past each it took was a crisp azygous done nan near broadside of nan infield from Kazuma Okamoto and a blooper into shallow correct from Ernie Clement to push a tally crossed and trim nan Dodgers’ lead successful half.

Freeman’s two-run changeable successful nan 3rd brought nan momentum backmost to nan Dodgers. From there, they kept expanding their lead.

In nan fourth, Tucker’s sacrifice alert added connected different run. The adjacent inning, Max Muncy and Andy Pages deed back-to-back singles, and Muncy scored erstwhile Alex Freeland grounded into a double play.

The Dodgers put together a three-run sixth inning, acknowledgment to a solo homer from Shohei Ohtani and a two-run double from Pages.

In nan seventh, Rushing deed nan first of his 2 homers, giving him location runs successful back-to-back games. The rally continued pinch Freeman and Hernández’s 3rd and 4th RBIs of nan night, respectively.

The crippled provided immoderate flashbacks to nan World Series. Wrobelski, who constricted nan Blue Jays to that 1 tally done 5 innings successful his first commencement of nan season, and reliever Will Klein, who threw 2 scoreless frames, some returned to nan Rogers Centre aft cutting their teeth successful nan postseason past year.

Dalton Rushing, right, celebrates pinch teammate Hyeseong Kim aft hitting a location tally successful nan eighth inning Monday against nan Blue Jays.

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In nan bottommost of nan 2nd inning, Pages and Hernández converged nether a alert shot successful near field. But they did not reenact Pages’ World Series Game 7 catch, which Pages pulled disconnected past contempt colliding pinch Kiké Hernández. On Monday, Pages called disconnected Teoscar Hernández large and clear, extending his limb arsenic an other precaution.

As nan crippled turned into a blowout, however, it began to consciousness thing for illustration nan 11-inning nail-biter these teams past played successful past November.