The Los Angeles Dodgers extended their season-best winning streak to five games by defeating the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday night. And with their 4-1 win, the Dodgers clinched another series victory and are in position to go undefeated on the road trip.
It concludes Wednesday with an early afternoon game that is going to see Shohei Ohtani make his second start of the season as a pitcher.
Dodgers 4, Blue Jays 1: key takeaways
Miguel Rojas scratched
One night after pitching the ninth inning, Miguel Rojas was penciled in at shortstop and batting eighth. However, he was a late scratch from the Dodgers lineup due to what the team announced was a family issue.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto
Pitching at Rogers Centre for the first time since closing out the World Series and earning MVP honors last year, Yamamoto turned in another strong performance.
He retired 12 batters in a row at one point and battled through the sixth inning as the Blue Jays attempted to rally. They scored a run but left the tying runners on base. Yamamoto was chased from the game after a leadoff double and bunt single in the seventh.
Yamamoto finished the night with just one run allowed and matched his season high with six strikeouts over six-plus innings. He became the Dodgers’ first starter to reach the seventh inning this year.
Alex Vesia aided his effort by stranding two inherited runners and leaving the bases loaded after walking the first batter faced.
Shohei Ohtani streaking
Ohtani extended his career-best on-base streak to 42 games by opening the game with a leadoff walk. He later hit a 359-foot RBI single high off the wall in right field to break up the scoreless tie in the third inning.
Ohtani finished 1-for-3 with one RBI and two walks. He was hit in the left elbow/tricep area by Blue Jays catcher Brandon Valenzuela on his follow through and was checked on by a trainer in the fifth inning. Ohtani remained in the game despite later being seen rubbing the area.
Dodgers snap Kevin Gausman’s streak
Kevin Gausman entered the game after becoming the first pitcher since at least 1900 to tally 10 or more strikeouts and zero walks in both of his first two starts of a season. Gausman’s first walk of the season came when he put Ohtani aboard on four consecutive pitches to start the game.
Gausman wound up walking two batters and allowed three runs over 5.1 innings.
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