Wrobleski Settles In, Dodgers Do the Rest

Revenge games are great in theory.

In reality, they tend to fall apart when one team shows up looking like it’s still playing in October… and the other looks like it just checked the schedule that morning.

The Toronto Blue Jays had this one circled for months. Five months removed from a crushing Game 7 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2025 World Series, this was supposed to be a little payback north of the border.

Instead, it turned into a reminder — an emphatic 14–2 Dodgers win that felt far more lopsided than anyone in Toronto was expecting.

By the third inning, the tone had already been set. A two-run shot from Teoscar Hernández in the first got things rolling, and when Freddie Freeman launched another two-run homer in the third, it was clear this wasn’t going to be a tense, back-and-forth rematch. It was going to be a long night for Toronto — and the Dodgers made sure it stayed that way.

There was no shortage of backstory coming in.

Toronto fans hadn’t forgotten Justin Wrobleski, particularly after his role in the Game 7 fireworks last fall when he plunked Andrés Giménez and nearly ignited a full-on brawl. Let’s just say the reception wasn’t exactly warm.

On the other side, Dodgers fans still have their own feelings about Max Scherzer. His brief stint in Los Angeles ended with talk of a tired arm at the worst possible time, followed by a quick exit and an NLCS loss that hasn’t exactly faded from memory. “Dead arm” might be a legitimate condition, but it’s also not exactly a phrase that wins you many fans in October.

If Monday was any indication, it’s also not one that ages particularly well in April.

Scherzer lasted just two innings before exiting, having already surrendered the early damage. Meanwhile, Wrobleski — perhaps fueled by the less-than-friendly environment — delivered exactly what the Dodgers needed. After allowing a run in a slightly shaky first, he settled in and quietly took control, finishing five strong innings without allowing another run.

In other words, “Wrobo” heard the noise… and responded accordingly.

Behind him, the bullpen kept things clean. Will Klein and Edgardo Enriquez handled the late innings with little drama, leaving Miguel Rojas to handle mop-up duty in the ninth of what had long since turned into a formality.

Offensively, it was more of the same from a Dodgers lineup that’s starting to look a little unfair.

Dalton Rushing stole the spotlight with the first multi-home run game of his career, going deep twice and finishing a perfect night at the plate. Shohei Ohtani added another home run — because of course he did — while Hernández and Freeman each contributed their own two-run blasts.

By the time it was over, the Dodgers had piled up 14 runs on 17 hits, turning what was supposed to be a World Series rematch into something closer to a one-sided highlight reel.

Even the Blue Jays got creative trying to stop it. Catcher Tyler Heineman took the mound in the ninth and, to his credit, delivered Toronto’s cleanest inning of the night — a sentence that probably tells you everything you need to know about how the game went.

The Dodgers, fresh off a sweep in Washington, have now rattled off another dominant performance, and the gap between these two “evenly matched” teams from five months ago suddenly looks a lot wider.

Funny how that happens.

Next up, Yoshinobu Yamamoto is scheduled to take the ball for Los Angeles against Kevin Gausman as the Dodgers look to keep the momentum rolling — and, if nothing else, continue reminding Toronto how last October ended.