A.J. Pollock and Will Smith hit home runs to jumpstart the offence, and Clayton Kershaw moved past Sandy Koufax on the Dodgers’ all-time win list as Los Angeles earned a 16-3 interleague victory over the visiting Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday.
Max Muncy, Chris Taylor and Joc Pederson also hit home runs for the Dodgers, who have gone deep 30 times in their last eight games. Los Angeles improved to a major-league-best 49-16 at home this season.
Kershaw (13-2) went six innings, giving up three runs on six hits with three walks and six strikeouts. It was his 166th career victory, moving him out of a tie with Koufax and into sole possession of fifth on the team’s all-time list.
Bo Bichette hit two home runs off Kershaw in his first matchup against the Los Angeles ace, giving him seven long balls on the year. His first multi-homer contest came in his 21st career game. He also became the first rookie to hit two home runs in a game against Kershaw.
Bichette’s first home run of the night came on Kershaw’s second pitch. Derek Fisher also hit a homer for the Blue Jays, with his solo shot in the third inning giving Toronto a 2-0 lead. It was Fisher’s fifth of the season.
The Dodgers unleashed their offence in the bottom of the third inning against right-hander Sean Reid-Foley (2-4), delivering a five-run rally with two outs. After Pederson lined out and Kershaw struck out, Pollockstarted the offensive outburst with a home run, his ninth.
Six consecutive Dodgers batters reached base, with Smith hitting a two-run home run in the stretch, his 11th. Corey Seager added a two-run double in the inning, one of this three hits.
Cody Bellinger increased the Dodgers’ lead to 8-2 in the fourth inning with a three-run double. He was out trying to stretch the hit into a triple, but he did reach 100 RBIs on the hit for the first time in his career. In the sixth, after Bichette delivered his second home run of the game, Muncy hit his 32nd home run and Taylor hit his ninth in his first game back from the injured list. 
Taylor, who had been out since mid-July due to a fractured left forearm, had three hits and drove in four runs. Pederson hit his 25th homer in the eighth. 

Conforto, Mets cruise 
past Indians
Michael Conforto hit a tiebreaking two-run homer in the sixth inning, rookie Pete Alonso added a two-run double in the seventh, and the New York Mets began a pivotal nine-game homestand with a 9-2 victory over the Cleveland Indians on Tuesday.
After winning 18 of 23 games while playing several losing teams, the Mets (65-60) began a stretch of 18 straight games against other playoff contenders by improving to 11-1 in their last 12 home games. They matched a season best by going five games over .500.
Conforto snapped a 2-2 tie when he clobbered a 1-2, two-out slider from Shane Bieber (12-6) and hit the ball into the Mets’ bullpen beyond the right-centre-field fence. 
Conforto’s 27th homer occurred two batters after Cleveland rookie left fielder Oscar Mercado dropped a fly ball by Joe Panik for a two-base error. J.D. Davis also hit a two-run homer for the Mets.
Amed Rosario and Panik added RBI singles in the seventh to give the Mets a 6-2 lead before Alonso drove in his 96th and 97th runs. 
Rajai Davis added an RBI double in the eighth after being called up from Triple-A Syracuse before the game.
New York’s Steven Matz (8-7) allowed two runs (one earned) and five hits in 6 1/3 innings. He struck out seven, walked two and threw 98 pitches.
Matz retired 10 straight batters until the seventh, when he allowed an infield single to Greg Allen and a walk to pinch hitter Franmil Reyes that knocked him out.
Justin Wilson struck out Francisco Lindor and Mercado to end the seventh. Luis Avilan and Paul Sewald finished up with a scoreless inning apiece.
Jason Kipnis drove in both Cleveland runs. He hit a solo homer with two outs 
in the second inning and a game-tying single with no outs in the fourth that scored Yasiel Puig, who reached on a fielding error by third baseman Todd Frazier.
Bieber allowed four runs (two earned) on four hits in six innings. He struck out seven, walked one and lost consecutive starts for the first time this year.
The Indians fell for the fifth time in seven games.
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