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The Los Angeles Dodgers will be sporting a new look with a familiar feel Wednesday afternoon as they look to continue their momentum following a wild victory over the Toronto Blue Jays a night earlier.

 

While pitching is expected to be the Dodgers' target at the upcoming trade deadline, their first move of the deal-making season came Tuesday when they acquired utility man Enrique Hernandez from the Red Sox. Boston received minor league relievers Nick Robertson and Justin Hagenman in the swap and also agreed to pay most of Hernandez's remaining salary this year.

 

 

 

Hernandez is expected to be in the Dodgers' starting lineup on Wednesday, although manager Dave Roberts did not say if the club's former spark plug and fan favorite will be playing in the infield or outfield.

 

The right-handed-hitting Hernandez figures to start against left-handed pitching, and the Blue Jays will have lefty Yusei Kikuchi (7-3, 3.92 ERA) on the mound in the rubber game of the three-game series.

 

"He's a Swiss army knife," Roberts said of Hernandez. "He's one of the most talented baseball players I've been around. I'm excited to see him blend in with this ballclub."

 

It will be excitement all around after the Dodgers scored four runs in the ninth inning to send the Tuesday game into extra innings, then won it 8-7 in the 10th on James Outman's RBI double. Outman had three hits and reached base five times.

 

 

 

It has not been the best of seasons for Hernandez, who is batting .222 with a career-low .599 OPS through 86 games. He has six home runs and 31 RBIs.

 

"He obviously helped us win a championship (in 2020) and had his best years in a Dodger uniform," Roberts said of Hernandez, who played in Los Angeles from 2015-20. "I know fans are excited."

 

The Dodgers will send right-hander Tony Gonsolin (5-3, 3.94 ERA) to the mound on Wednesday. Gonsolin has given up exactly four runs in four of his past five outings, including his most recent start, a no-decision against the Texas Rangers on Friday.

 

 

 

In six starts dating to June 18, Gonsolin has struggled to the tune of a 6.97 ERA in 31 innings. He has never faced the Blue Jays.

 

Kikuchi has some familiarity against the Dodgers, having made starts against them in 2020 and '21 as a member of the Seattle Mariners. He is 0-1 against the Dodgers with a 6.55 ERA in 11 innings.

 

Kikuchi faced his former team in his most recent outing, tossing 5 1/3 scoreless innings against the Mariners on Friday. It was his fourth scoreless start of the season, but the shortest of the bunch.

 

"If you look at our season overall, without (Kikuchi), where would we be?" Blue Jays manager John Schneider said after the outing. "He's been steady. He's been reliable. That's just another really good outing from him."

 

 

 

After a solid June during which he had a 2.28 ERA in five starts, Kikuchi struggled to open July, yielding a combined nine runs allowed over 9 1/3 innings in outings against the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago White Sox. However, he has given up just two runs, one earned, over his past two starts (10 total innings).

 

Bo Bichette had four hits for Toronto on Tuesday, including his 17th home run, to end an 0-for-18 drought, the longest hitless spell of his career. Toronto catchers Alejandro Kirk and Danny Jansen combined for four RBIs in the late innings before the Dodgers rallied.

 

Freddie Freeman and J.D. Martinez hit home runs for the Dodgers, while Chris Taylor tied the game with two outs in the ninth on a two-run infield single that tipped off the glove of Blue Jays first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

 

 

 

--Field Level Media

 

 

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LETS GO BLUE JAYS *CLAP, CLAP* *CLAP, CLAP, CLAP*

 

LETS GO BLUE JAYS *CLAP, CLAP* *CLAP, CLAP, CLAP*

 

LETS GO BLUE JAYS *CLAP, CLAP* *CLAP, CLAP, CLAP*

 

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Here we go again. Last night cost me sleep I was so fired up after that loss I couldn't close my eyes.

 

WTF was Espy doing after the ball went off Vlad's glove? The only run that mattered with 2 outs was Will Smith and the tying run but we let him "JD-2016 vs Rangers" us.

 

Even with a bad hop on Chappy, and Swanson rather sucking that should have been a W...again.

 

Anyhow...flushed that out. Lets go Jays! Win the series.

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Will the bullpen tank us again? Or will Kikuchi have a stinker? Stay tuned to find out.

 

How about neither? Stay tuned.

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Just catching highlights on Gameday.

 

How the f*** does Chapman get thrown out at 3rd on a relay from CF to 1B? Sometimes this team is so dumb!

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Flight lost a wing at 3B.

 

Meh, It was a high throw and Freeman made a good cut, not sure if he thought Vlad would get gunned at home and forced the cut. Or just a brain cramp, sucked no doubt.

 

I just watched it again, he should've just went full tilt off the catch, definitely a base running error.

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Can’t be going 3-2 with the likes of Kike Hernandez. Go after him with fastballs. Knock the bat out of his hands.
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Just catching highlights on Gameday.

 

How the f*** does Chapman get thrown out at 3rd on a relay from CF to 1B? Sometimes this team is so dumb!

 

Freeman cut the throw to home, and threw Chappy out, he should've tagged and went hard directly to 3rd, but he broke late for some odd reason, maybe the high throw but FF can get way up there.

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