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Bo Bichette drove in the Blue Jays only run in a 5-1 come-from-behind loss to the Dodgers |
After an off-day/travel day yesterday, the Blue Jays continued the road trip in LA against a Dodgers team looking to repeat as World Series champions. The Dodgers won the season series last year, outscoring the Blue Jays 17-7. Ali Sanchez was claimed was claimed off waivers by the Red Sox. Max Scherzer got the start with Alejandro Kirk behind the plate. Vlad was back in the field after DH'ing Wednesday (Ty France served as DH tonight). Daulton Varsho was in CF and Myles Straw was in RF. Addison Barger was at the hot corner. Ernie Clement got the start at 2B. Could the Blue Jays extend the win streak to 4 games? Here is tonight's game recap.
Game Highlights:
- The Blue Jays opened the scoring in the top of the 2nd as Addison Barger singled scoring Bo Bichette
- The Dodgers took the lead in the bottom of the 5th as Mookie Betts belted a 2-2-run jack to left; also scoring Shohei Ohtani
- Clayton Kershaw pitching line: 6IP 7H 1R (earned) 1BB 4K 74 pitches (54 for strikes)
- Max Scherzer pitching line: 6IP 6H 2R (both earned) 3BB 5K 98 pitches (63 for strikes)
- The Dodgers added a run in the bottom of the 7th on a fielder's choice hit by Betts that scored Alex Freeland
- Two batters later,, Ohtani was forced in on a bases loaded walk to Will Smith
- Two batters later, Betts scored on a sac fly by Teoscar Hernandez
- Final score: Dodgers 5 Blue Jays 1
My T-ake:
- Max Scherzer threw 6 solid innings giving up a pair of runs on 6 hits while walking 3 and striking out 5. There is really only one pitch he'll want back where Blue Jays killer Mookie Betts took him deep to give the Dodgers the lead. The Dodgers also jumped on him early, but Scherzer escaped that jam without giving up a run despite the bases being loaded. He settled down and retired 8 in a row. This is almost certainly going to be the last pitching match-up between these two future hall of famers and Scherzer and Clayton Kershaw both showed flashes of their brilliance tonight.
- The bullpen gave up 3 runs on a hit and 3 walks while striking out 2 over the last 2 innnings. All 3 runs were charged to Brandon Little, who did not retire a batter. Mason Fluharty retired every batter he faced on 10 pitches
- Bo Bichette drove in the only Blue Jays run. Vlad extended his on-base streak to 24 games and his hitting streak to 4 games.
- The Blue Jays were 2-8 with runners in scoring position
- The lead for 1st in the AL East shrunk by a game with the Red Sox winning. The Astros also won, putting them just 3 games back of the Blue Jays for the record in the AL and home field advantage at least through the ALCS round. It won't take much for the Blue Jays to plummet to 3rd place among the division leaders, which would mean facing a wild card series, which will likely mean a wild card series vs. the Yankees, Red Sox, Mariners or Guardians
- Up next, the Blue Jays try to even the series and avoid their 11th series loss and 4th season series loss of the season. Chris Bassitt starts against Dodgers lefty Blake Snell