Dodgers vs. Blue Jays Game Highlights (4-7-26) - MLB Highlights

Yamamoto going for the Dodgers Kevin Gosling going for Toronto a rematch of games two and six of the World Series a couple of guys with splitters that are both devastating both splitters are going down and we will see if they're both going down it's going to be a pitcher's duel for Gavin. He is up to a great start because he is striking people out in two starts he's pitched to twelve innings he has not walked a batter and struck out twenty one and ball four misses with a fastball away and that's just the first walk that Kevin Gosling has given up this season. So here's Will Smith and he has popped this one in the air to right field Nathan Lucas setting up makes the catch Ohtani is tagging and Ohtani safe with a foot for a slide two outs in the inning. And here's Freddie Freeman had a big night last night two for four with a double and a home run did high in the air moving over Jesus Sanchez after the leadoff walk to Ohtani round out fly out fly out to make it a scoreless top of the first. Yama is looking for the precision that he had in the playoffs so far this year. The off speed stuff has been very good. It's the fastball and the cutter that has been getting hit is one to the springers swung on and missed strike three got him with a slider and he's already halfway to his strikeout total from his last start picks up right where he left off striking out the first two Jays got to counts on both of them and put them both away two outs he faces Guerrero Junior with the bases clear Yamamoto strikes out the side in the first inning three wins in the World Series here last year three strikeouts in the first inning in his return Jesus Sanchez against Yoshinobu Yamamoto swinging a high drive right it's over his head in one hop to the fence Sanchez rounding first slides into second and is in there before the throw of Tucker hardliner by Jesus Sanchez and it looked like the gold Glover Kyle Tucker didn't quite get the right read on that ball for Sanchez his first double of the year. So the Blue Jays in danger here stranding the leadoff double still Sanchez on second now two outs and Nathan Lucas to hit fourth start of the season two for 15 on the young year. Here's the payoff strike three call turned him into a statue with the cutter and he strands the leadoff double with his fourth K. Special night tonight for Jays fans hot dogs for just seventy seven cents fans enjoy being part of a historic night here at the Rogers Center. No score top three. Both Kevin Guzman and Yoshinobu Yamamoto have been very sharp. Kim back to back starts in his return to the big leagues two hits and a walk yesterday drills a spot right center field that's going to split the gap in the second with the leadoff double the Dodgers just like the Blue Jays in the last half inning get a leadoff double. What can they do with it. Freeland lays a bun down first base side to advance Kim in the throw hits him. Kim's headed for the plate now throws on the brakes and retreats throw to third is late bottom of the order again getting the job done seven through nine in the Dodger lineup the best in baseball by one hundred and fifty points of OPS Dave Roberts is saying before the game that's when this lineup really gets scary. Ohtani rifles one to right field back at the wall it's off the top of the wall. Kim's going to score running from first to third is Freeland that was a long and loud single for Ohtani and it drives in the very first run of the ball game one nothing Dodgers. So a couple of hard hit balls here they're sitting off Goss but to give the Dodgers an early lead still nobody out. I'm just trying to limit the damage here for Kevin Goss. Call strike three snuck a fastball by him at ninety five. Tucker didn't look ready for the Heat. There's one down. Well there's the strikeout when Kevin desperately needed one Gossman's not a big ground ball guy but you've got a right handed hitter here and Will Smith doesn't run particularly well. A well-placed ground ball could get him out of the inning. Ground ball to third Ocoto to second Clemente. So Freeland scores on the play. So an RBI ground out for Will Smith that the Dodgers now lead two to nothing. They just are not able to square the ball up here against Yamamoto. Here's a matchup worth the price of admission. Yamamoto against Guerrero big bounce it is short charging Kim throws on the run in time has Song Kim smiling and deservedly so that play in the way he's played his first two games back Sanchez the only guy to reach base for the Blue Jays and as Yamamoto keeps going like this you look back at how he reached and is like Oh no. Exactly. The only base runner Kyle Tucker misplayed a ball in right field into a double. He got him swinging with the curve and then Sanchez just looks out at Yamamoto and smiles after he had his ticket punched. That is ball for some speed on the bases for the Dodgers to start the fifth inning. Block is called on Gaussman Kendall good second block has been called on Kevin Gaussman. He wants to know why John Schneider wants to know why he was bouncing coming set. I mean he's always that left foot is always going up and down. Oh boy. And Schneider just got tossed out of the game at least from the video we just saw it look like John Schneider's live it for a number of reasons. Number one it's a Bach call on Kevin Gaussman that he feels his pitcher does the same thing every time. This is another opportunity though for John Schneider to give the umpire a sense of his mind because his team is up to a scuffling start here early in the year and there's only one way to try to get those boys in the dugout going. Schneider is bright red. Jays are still in a bit of a pickle though here in the top of the fifth right now runner on second nobody out line drive base hit right center. Here comes Kim and the balls battled by Lucas Kimmel score without a throw three to nothing. Alex Freeland drives in Hess on Kim and the two guys that competed for the second base job in spring training have combined bringing the first three runs of this game. And now that that Bach is really really important in this ballgame. Still nobody out here. Shohei Ohtani taking a strike throw down to first and that took a man dive right there from Vlad Jr. to keep it in the infield. Ohtani is hurt. He was on the throw follow through of the hand knocked right on his left elbow right about where the funny bone is where it can just numb you. What a weird inning it has been so far. Unfortunately it's the left elbow not the right one because he's scheduled a pitch tomorrow and that is going to be all with a couple of lefties do up next to Marlo Hale the acting manager tonight is on his way to the mound and Kevin Gossman will leave after five and a third here tonight. Mason Flewhart he is trying to make sure the Dodgers don't extend their lead as he comes in with a couple of men on and one out and the one one to Max Munson hit on the ground up the middle Clement Gloves shovels over to second one Jimenez to first not in time just not hit hard enough to turn to. It's up to Kim here with runners at first and third and two away. Kim has doubled and walked and scored two of the three runs and has been on base five times in his first two games. There it is. Got him with the sweeper to strike him out. And he does the job stranding a couple of runners here at the top of the sixth inning. Yamamoto has faced one batter over the minimum through five his eighth pitch to Jimenez. He's hit off the fist a little looper over the head of Freeman at first to base it down and shallow right. And Andres Jimenez is the second Blue Jays baserunner. He is a leadoff baserunner for the Blue Jays here in the sixth if they can't get something going as they turn this line up over after Valenzuela runner at second one out for George Springer over to the Blue Jays have not had many opportunities with the runners in scoring position and in fact prior to this at bat just three swing in a line drive right center field. It's got tail on it and it's down for a base hit bouncing into the fence coming around third. Jimenez jogs home Springer into second his RBI double gets the Blue Jays on the board. It's three one L.A. that spoils the shutout bid for Yamamoto in the Dodgers first walk of the game issued by Yamamoto and tension right here. Tying run aboard Vlad Guerrero Junior coming up big bouncer up along third Muncy waits on it steps on the bag to get Springer. So the baton pass to Jesus Sanchez first and second two down three one Dodgers Sanchez swings hits it on the ground a second base Freeland to Freeman and that ends the inning. So the Blue Jays get one but only one. It was Dalton rushing last night with the get right game and it feels like Freeland's evident tonight. Mason Flewhart he comes in and gets four outs across 20 pitches he has done his job tonight and started this inning with the double. He's still at second. Now Louie Varlan comes in to face Will Smith in the air to right. This is there and the Dodgers are retired. Blue Hardy and Varlan combined to strand that leadoff double Okamoto around first into second with a leadoff standoff double. He is indeed human and the Blue Jays are starting to get to him a little bit here in the later stages of this game. And the time run is at the plate here in Ernie Clement. The Blue Jays have the time run on and there's nobody out on a punt hit from Ernie Clement. And that is going to do it for Yoshi first two batters in the seventh inning get hits against him and these Blue Jays fans and the Blue Jays players are saying anybody but that guy left hander Alex Bessie who has not given up an earned run on the young season comes in to face the pinch hitter in Davis Schneider three to outside ball for the bases. So now a big big spot for Andres Jimenez one for two had a base hit and scored an inning ago. But I feel Hernandez over Okamoto tags Hernandez the catch Okamoto hangs on just as good as a strikeout right there for Alex Vasea one gone in the seven. So one out and you talk about a big moment here for a young man making just his second major league start tonight. Brandon Valenzuela a switch hitter turns around to the right side against Vasea. He struck him out with the high fastball to go on in the seven. And now Joe Vasea is going to stay to face Springer. We saw trying it up in the pen but the lefty will say to stay to face Springer Springer has driven in the only Blue Jays run tonight with a double to right center in the sixth or the double the Bucs single the walk bases loaded nobody out. Can they get something out of this popped up shadow right Freeland out Tucker on the Jays had the bases loaded nobody out and could not score nightmares returning for Toronto. Here's Alex Freeland in an RBI single back in the fifth inning and made it three nothing Dodgers chops it to first Vance got it race to the bag throw behind Hoffman. And now the throw is in a right field. Oh my goodness Freeland will stop at second scored a single for Freeland in E2 on Valenzuela the backstop and that shot right there. Vlad is the Blue Jays in twenty twenty six put Ohtani on with first base open and face off with Kyle Tucker instead. Big insurance sitting out there base hit to right field for Tucker. Here comes Freeland. Throw is on the way it is not in time. Dodgers take advantage of the two out sloppiness from the Blue Jays Kyle Tucker drives in Alex Freeland then it's four to one Ernie Clemente Ward and the door a crack open right now for the Blue Jays here down by three they have their first runner on here in the night. So here's Davis Schneider walked in his one plate appearance that came in the seventh that loaded the bases with nobody out. It's inside called a ball. Will Smith taps the helmet. There it is. You're rarely going to get that call from the umpire because of the glove reaching like this right. Not hitting your spot. One remaining challenge for the computers don't care where you were aiming catches the inside corner of the Jays are down to their last hour. The batter is Andres Jimenez one for three singled and scored back in the six. I don't want to take any risks when you're not the tying runs of Clemente third Tyler Heidemann will come up as the tying run two on two out of the nine. So to pitch got him and that's the ball game Diaz locks it down the Dodgers five and oh on this road trip and they've handed the Blue Jays a six consecutive defeat.