Dodgers bullpen falters as Blue Jays avoid sweep
Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Andres Gimenez (0) steals second base as Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Miguel Rojas (72) mishandles a throw from Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Will Smith (not pictured) durin... TORONTO — The sweep was there for the taking. Instead, the Dodgers were left to pack for home with a reminder that even early April baseball has a way of humbling a team that looks nearly untouchable on paper.
On Wednesday afternoon at Rogers Centre, the Dodgers watched a late lead dissolve in a 4–3 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays — a game that felt firmly in hand until it suddenly wasn’t. And in the middle of it all was Shohei Ohtani, whose afternoon somehow managed to be both historic and human. For six innings, Ohtani didn’t have his best stuff.
That much was clear. The crisp dominance of his season debut gave way to something more methodical, more workmanlike. But still, it worked.
He scattered four hits, struck out two, and didn’t allow an earned run across six innings. Efficient enough. Controlled enough.
Good enough to win. Yet the streak — the one that had quietly built into one of the early storylines of the season — came to an end. An RBI double by Jesús Sánchez in the third inning snapped Ohtani’s scoreless stretch at 24 2/3 innings, the longest active run by a starting pitcher entering the day.
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