The Dodgers are back home for Game 3 of the World Series Monday night when they take on the Blue Jays after splitting the first two games in Toronto.
Los Angeles dropped the first game of the series in a blowout before knotting the series at 1-1 with a 5-1 win behind a complete game gem from Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
Here’s what to know about Game 3 at Dodger Stadium and the pitching matchup.
When is Game 3?
First pitch is scheduled for 5:10 p.m.
Starting pitchers
Tyler Glasnow will pitch for the Dodgers, who will face 41-year-old future Hall of Famer Max Scherzer. The right-hander had a brief stint with the Dodgers during the team’s 2021 stretch run.
“We have to have Tyler come out and pitch well,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said at a news conference Sunday. “We know Scherzer from years past, and we have to know that he’s going to come in and compete and make pitches, and we’ve got to have a good game plan and execute and play sound baseball, and then everything will take care of itself.
Mookie Betts, Max Muncy, Will Smith and several Dodgers coaches also were part of that 2021 team.
“They’re making moves. I’m making moves,” Scherzer said at a news conference Saturday. “That’s just baseball. But it’s been like that for years for me now. I understand how everybody wants to attack me, how I want to attack them.
“At the end of the day, you got to go out there and compete and you got to throw strikes. It kind of gets back down to the basics. So you can try and make it as advanced as you want, but a lot of times it’s the more simple approach that works better. You got to go out there and want to win.”
Glasnow has no record and a hold in two 2025 postseason starts and one relief appearance with an 0.68 ERA. The right-hander was 4-3 with a 3.19 ERA in the regular season, which included a stint on the injured list from April 28 to July 9 because of right shoulder inflammation.
The Dodgers were 10-8 in his starts.
Glasnow did not figure in the decision in the Dodgers’ 5-4 loss at Toronto Aug. 10 when he allowed two runs and four hits in 5 2/3 innings, struck out eight and walked four. The 2011 graduate of Hart High in Santa Clarita is 1-4 with a 5.82 ERA in 11 starts against the Blue Jays.
Scherzer was 5-5 with a 5.19 ERA in the 2025 regular season for Toronto, who was 9-8 in his starts. He was on the injured list from March 30 to June 25 due to right thumb inflammation. He was the losing pitcher in the opener of the Blue Jays’ three-game series against the Dodgers in August, allowing two runs and six hits in six innings in a 5-1 loss Aug. 8 at Dodger Stadium.
Scherzer is 5-6 with a 2.38 ERA in 17 starts and two relief appearances against the Dodgers.
This will be his second postseason appearance for Toronto. Scherzer was the winning pitcher in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series, allowing two runs and three hits in 5 2/3 innings and was credited with the victory in an 8-2 win.
Scherzer was the sixth-oldest player in Major League Baseball in 2025.
Source: NBC Los Angeles
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