Asking Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Tyler Glasnow to follow up Yoshinobu Yamamoto in Game 3 of the World Series would be folly. You can’t expect every pitcher on the Dodgers to turn in a dominant, complete-game performance on the sport’s biggest stage. But Glasnow is looking to carry Yamamoto’s momentum into Monday’s contest. Glasnow, who has a 0.68 ERA this postseason, is trying to give the Dodgers the lead in the 2025 World Series with a win against the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 3.
Toronto sends veteran Max Scherzer to the mound to oppose Glasnow. Scherzer knows a thing or two about pitching in big games. The veteran has 31 playoff appearances over his Hall of Fame career and has won two World Series championships, leading the Washington Nationals and Texas Rangers to titles.
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Scherzer, 41, is coming off his worst season in the majors, but he found a way to turn back time in his one playoff start so far, allowing just two runs over 5 2/3 innings during Toronto’s win over the Seattle Mariners in Game 4 of the ALCS. If Scherzer can repeat that performance Monday, he would give the Blue Jays a shot at a 2-1 lead in the series.
Start time: 8 p.m. ET
Location: Dodger Stadium | Los Angeles
TV channel: Fox
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Jack Baer
Jack Baer
The Dodgers have seven hits tonight and five of them have come off the bats of Shohei Ohtani and Teoscar Hernández. The latter singles to put the lead run on base with one out against Louis Varland.
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Dodgers left-hander Alex Vesia is off the World Series roster due to “a deeply personal family matter.” We don’t know what that is, but his teammates are clearly thinking about him.
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Mookie Betts, Gold Glove finalist. The Dodgers shortstop make a great play on the ball up the middle to end the top
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Who is Justin Wrobleski? You might be asking that because this is his second appearance of the postseason, the other being mop-up duty in Game 1. He’s a rookie left-hander with a career 4.81 ERA in 32 appearances (eight starts).
The fact that he’s in a tie game in a tied World Series should tell you something about how catastrophically bad the Dodgers bullpen has been lately.
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Varland strikes out Smith to end the inning. Four more to go as Justin Wrobleski enters the game for the Dodgers. Buckle up.
Jake Mintz
Fluharty was brought in to get L.A.’s lefties — Ohtani and Freeman — after Max Scherzer delivered an admirably capable 4 1/3-inning performance.
But the Toronto southpaw couldn’t get the job done. He left two different two-strike sweepers elevated in the strike zone, and the Dodgers made him pay. First, Ohtani took him backside for a double, and then, after Mookie Betts popped out weakly for the second out, Freddie Freeman laced one down the right-field line to tie the score.
All things considered, it was a truly dreadful showing from Fluharty, one that spoiled what could have been the final postseason start of Scherzer’s Hall of Fame career.
Jack Baer
This was bound to happen. Both of these teams have had shaky bullpens this postseason, and now it’s a tie game with nothing but bullpen from here on out. Obviously, a win would be rather huge for either team in that context.
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Jack Baer
That’ll do it for Fluharty. Every-day reliever Louis Varland comes in to face Will Smith with two outs.
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Against left-handed specialist Mason Fluharty, the Dodgers’ top left-handed bats just got it done. Freddie Freeman sneaks a single down the first-base line to score Ohtani and tie the game. Dodger Stadium is alive again.
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Jack Baer
Shohei Ohtani is having himself a day. He brings in a run with a double to the left-field gap and is now 3-for-3 with two doubles and a homer.
Still one out for Mookie Betts with a runner in scoring position
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Pages flies out, and that does it for Max Scherzer. Rather than have him face Ohtani a third time, the Blue Jays bring in left-hander Mason Fluharty to face Ohtani as the tying run at the plate.
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Kiké Hernández leads off the bottom of the fifth with a single up the middle. Now would be a very good time for the Dodgers if Andy Pages can wake up a little with Shohei Ohtani right after him.
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Jack Baer
Varsho pops out to end the inning.
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Jack Baer
Tyler Glasnow gets through the right-handed Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Bo Bichette, and that will do it for him with two outs in the fifth. Anthony Banda, who gave up that grand slam in Game 1, is in to face Daulton Varsho.
Jack Baer
Another leadoff walk for Glasnow. He’s up to three on the night and might not be in the his game much longer.
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Max Scherzer gets a much-needed 1-2-3 inning in the fourth and is now at 72 pitches through four. But Shohei Ohtani is due up next inning for his third look at the right-hander …