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After all the worrying about this series, the Dodgers have casually taken the first two games from the Blue Jays behind their much improved pitching. Blake Snell was front and center of that today as he whiffed 10 batters, and the Dodgers put up all nine runs in the middle innings in an easy 9-1 victory.
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Last time out, Blake Snell basically got victimized by a Little League field, but today he looked like the guy they paid for. He worked around a two-out double in the 2nd, a lead-off double and one-out walk in the 3rd, and a couple of walks in the 4th, doing his usual thing of staying away from the middle of the plate even if it cost him pitches. Having strikeout stuff in the rotation sure is nice.
It was a premium Snell experience, as he didn’t give up much damage, struck out double digits, and used 90 pitches through five shutout: 5 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 3 BB, 10 K, 90 Pitches.
Blake Snell strikes out 10 over 5 shutout innings. Diamonds, baby. pic.twitter.com/BhRVjnM9uB
— Chad Moriyama (@ChadMoriyama) August 10, 2025
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Fortunately, the offense allowed him to exit with the lead.
Things didn’t look great early as the first six went down in order, and a lead-off walk with a two-out single went for nothing in the 3rd. However, they did things the easy way in the 4th, as Freddie Freeman drew a lead-off walk and Max Muncy drilled a ball the other way over the short fence for his 16th dong of the year for a 2-0 lead.
Max for two! pic.twitter.com/wzaYCM6MRu
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) August 10, 2025
They added another run to their lead via a no-doubter from Shohei Ohtani, his 40th of the year to make it 3-0.
Shohei with homer No. 40! pic.twitter.com/xpcXKW6qPm
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) August 10, 2025
Sho 'em No. 40. pic.twitter.com/HVxE36LmiO
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) August 10, 2025
They did still strand a two-out double in the 4th and a pair of two-out singles in the 5th, but they came through in the 6th in their chances.
Andy Pages started the rally with a bloop single, Michael Conforto then got hit on the knee, and after Alex Freeland weirdly tried to sac bunt early in the at-bat, he eventually walked to load the bases. That brought up the struggling Dalton Rushing, but he laced a single to center to plate two runs to make it 5-0.
After a wild pitch, Shohei was intentionally walked, and Mookie Betts stayed hot by ripping a single off a glove to make it 7-0. Another wild pitch advanced both runners, and between a pair of strikeouts, Muncy drew another walk to re-load the bases with two outs. Pages then doubled down the line in left to score two more for his second hit of the inning to push things to 9-0.
Six runs in the sixth! pic.twitter.com/IJFd09GyHx
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) August 10, 2025
They didn’t get anything but reaching on an error in the last two frames, but obviously it didn’t matter much.
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With a relatively comfortable lead and not facing a string of lefties, Brock Stewart put up a scoreless 6th in relief of Snell, just issuing a two-out walk.
Jack Dreyer took over in the 7th with a clean frame, and he continued in the 8th, where he gave up a solo homer to Ernie Clement to put the Blue Jays on the board and make it 9-1. No matter, just throwing strikes with a big lead.
To close the game was Alexis Diaz in the 9th, who got a scoreless frame to end it despite a walk and single.
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Conforto with the athleticism, lol.
Conforto of all people pulling off this athletic slide is very funny to me. pic.twitter.com/XFJEKk88Eg
— Chad Moriyama (@ChadMoriyama) August 10, 2025
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| NL West | Record | GB |
|---|---|---|
| Dodgers | 68-49 | – |
| Padres | 64-52* | 3.5 |
The Dodgers will go for the sweep tomorrow in the series finale at 10:10 AM HT/1:10 PM PT/4:10 PM ET, and it’ll be Tyler Glasnow, giving Yoshinobu Yamamoto extra rest, against Eric Lauer.
