Dalton Rushing homers twice as Dodgers rout Blue Jays 14-2
TORONTO (AP) — Dalton Rushing hit two solo home runs for his first career multihomer game and the Los Angeles Dodgers went deep five times to rout the Toronto Blue Jays 14-2 on Monday in a rematch of the 2025 World Series. Teoscar Hernández and Freddie Freeman both hit two-run home runs and Shohei Ohtani added a solo blast. After scoring 31 runs in a three game sweep at Washington, the Dodgers piled up 17 hits against the slumping Blue Jays.
Rushing went 4 for 4 and also scored after he was hit by a pitch. Rushing connected on Tommy Nance’s first pitch of the seventh, then went deep again off Spencer Miles in the eighth. Hernández went 2 for 5 with a walk and drove in four while Freeman was 2 for 4 with a walk and three RBIs.
Kyle Tucker had a hit, walked and scored three times, and drove in a run with a sacrifice fly. Andy Pages had two hits, including a two-run double. Blue Jays catcher Tyler Heineman came on to pitch the ninth and retired the side in order, Toronto’s only 1-2-3 inning of the game.
The Blue Jays lost their fifth straight and saw right-hander and three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer (1-1) leave after two innings . The 41-year-old allowed two runs and two hits, walked one and struck out a pair. Hernández homered off Scherzer in the first.
Freeman drilled a 438-foot shot off Josh Fleming in the third. Ohtani homered off Joe Mantiply in the sixth, his third in four games. Making his first start of the season, Dodgers left-hander Justin Wrobleski (1-0) allowed one run and two hits in five innings.