The Toronto Blue Jays scored the go-ahead run in the eighth inning on an error Wednesday afternoon and went on to defeat the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers 4-3.
The Blue Jays salvaged the finale of the three-game series, a rematch of the 2025 World Series won by Los Angeles, to end a six-game losing streak and end the Dodgers’ five-game winning streak.
Davis Schneider walked with one out in the eighth against Ben Casparius (0-1) and took third on Andres Gimenez’s single. Schneider scored on catcher Will Smith’s throwing error when Gimenez stole second.
Jeff Hoffman pitched around a single and a walk in the ninth to earn his second save.
Tyler Rogers (1-0) pitched 1 2/3 innings for the win.
Shohei Ohtani’s leadoff walk in the first against Dylan Cease extended his on-base streak to 43 games dating to August. That ties Ichiro Suzuki (2009) for the longest such streak by a Japanese-born player.
On the mound, Ohtani had problems commanding his pitches and Toronto took advantage with a third-inning run. Daulton Varsho walked with one out, took second on a passed ball and scored on Jesus Sanchez’s double to left.
Cease recorded 10 consecutive outs before Smith reached second base on an infield hit and third baseman Kazuma Okamoto’s throwing error in the fourth. Freddie Freeman followed with an RBI single to center.
Cease worked around a single and a hit batter in the fifth.
Smith walked to open the sixth, Freeman single to right and Max Muncy walked to load the bases with no outs. Louis Varland replaced Cease and escaped with only Teoscar Hernandez’s sacrifice fly.
Cease allowed two runs (one earned), four hits, four walks and a hit batter while striking out eight in five-plus innings.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. led off the home sixth with a double to left-center, but was out at third trying to advance on Sanchez’s grounder to shortstop to snuff a potential rally.
Ohtani finished six innings, allowing one unearned run, four hits and one walk with two strikeouts.
Toronto’s Mason Fluharty walked Miguel Rojas and Kyle Tucker before Rogers replaced him with one out in the seventh. Smith knocked an RBI single to center.
Jack Dreyer replaced Ohtani, walking pinch hitter Schneider and allowing Tyler Heineman’s one-out single. George Springer crunched an RBI double high off the right field wall and Varsho’s single tied the game.
–Field Level Media
