Overview
- Los Angeles beat Toronto 4-1 in Toronto on Tuesday, stretching its winning streak to five as the Blue Jays dropped a sixth straight game.
- Yoshinobu Yamamoto gave up one run over six-plus innings with six strikeouts to move to 2-1 in his first start back at Rogers Centre since his World Series MVP run.
- Shohei Ohtani opened the scoring with an RBI single and reached base for a 42nd straight MLB game, leaving him one behind Ichiro Suzuki’s 2009 record for a Japanese player.
- Alex Vesia wriggled out of a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the seventh to preserve the lead, and Edwin Díaz worked the ninth for his fourth save.
- Rookie infielder Alex Freeland went 3-for-3 with a double, an RBI and two runs, including a late insurance sequence that pushed the lead out of reach.