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Yamamoto Shines as Dodgers Top Blue Jays 4-1 for Fifth Straight Win

Ohtani’s 42-game on-base run now sits one shy of Ichiro Suzuki’s Japanese mark.

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.