Dodgers unleashed perfect troll on Blue Jays in return to Toronto since World Series

The Blue Jays had a 4-5 record and had just been swept by the White Sox, of all teams, when the Dodgers came to town for what fans expected to be a hard-fought series. Surely, Toronto would be able to recapture that postseason fire in their first meeting with LA since the World Series in Toronto.

That simply didn't happen.

The Dodgers came out of the gate quickly with a Teoscar Hernández two-run homer in the first. Ernie Clement answered with an RBI single off of Justin Wrobleski at the bottom of the inning, but that was as close as the score would get for the rest of the night.

By the end of the eighth, the Dodgers were up 14-1. Freddie Freeman collected his own two-run homer, Kyle Tucker picked up a sac fly, Alex Freeland an RBI groundout, Shohei Ohtani a solo home run, Andy Pages a two-run double, Dalton Rushing a solo homer ... you get the picture. (A special shoutout goes to Rushing, who had a two-homer night.

Wrobleski pitched five innings, Will Klein got two, Edgardo Henriquez got one. And in the bottom of the ninth, the Dodgers sent out none other than the man chiefly responsible for crushing the Blue Jays' World Series dreams: Miguel Rojas.

Dodgers send Miguel Rojas out to close 14-2 rout of Blue Jays in first meeting since World Series

Rojas was one of the Dodgers' go-to position players in situations like this last year, alongside Kiké Hernández, and the two usually had some fun with it. Rojas took to imitating his teammate's windups, and Hernández would wear a pitching warm up visor.

There was a little more decorum from Rojas this time, which makes some sense. There's already a not-unpopular take that it's insulting to send out a position player to pitch in a game their own team is winning, and the Dodgers were in a hostile ballpark. If they'd been back home in LA, it might've been a different story.

But it's still really, really funny.

Rojas loaded the bases on a double, walk, and hit by pitch, then gave up Toronto's second run of the night on an RBI groundout before he got a pop out and another groundout to end the game.

It would've been less insulting to Blue Jays fans if it'd been anyone other than Rojas (and maybe Will Smith).

But maybe they should've just ... been better. This was a totally avoidable issue, guys.