TORONTO -- Catcher A.J. Ellis drove in a career-best five runs on four hits including a home run as the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 14-5 on Monday to extend their winning streak to four games.
Skip Schumaker also drove in three runs with a home run for the Dodgers (51-47) while the Blue Jays (45-53) committed five errors as their losing skid reached five games.
The Dodgers outhit the Blue Jays 16-13.
South Korean left-hander Hyun-Jin Ryu (8-3) allowed four runs in 5 1/3 innings to pick up his second win in his past three starts. Cheered on by a large contingent of fans in the stands along the right-field line, he gave up nine hits and two walks while striking out three.
Blue Jays right-hander Josh Johnson (1-6) took his fourth consecutive loss by allowing seven hits including a home run and five runs in two-plus innings.
Andre Ethier doubled with one out in the second and A.J. Ellis hit his fifth homer of the season to give the Dodgers a 2-0 lead.
Johnson hit Juan Uribe with a pitch with two out and Mark Ellis singled. Carl Crawford singled in a run and Ellis took third on a throwing error by centre-fielder Colby Rasmus. Yasiel Puig singled in the fourth run.
The Dodgers chased Johnson in the third. Ethier led off with a double and scored on a single by A.J. Ellis to make the score 5-0. A wild pitch and a catcher's interference put runners at first and second with none out before left-hander Aaron Loup replaced Johnson.
The Blue Jays scored twice in the third started by Edwin Encarnacion's two-out infield single. Adam Lind walked and Melky Cabrera singled in a run. Mark DeRosa had an RBI single to right when Schumaker could not hold his sinking drive to cut the lead to 5-2.
The Dodgers scored once in the fourth. Adrian Gonzalez led off with a walk, took third on a single by Hanley Ramirez and came home when Ethier grounded into a double play.
The Dodgers added four in the sixth against Dustin McGowan and Brett Cecil. After a walk and the second error of the game by Lind, A.J. Ellis picked up his fourth RBI of the game with a single. Uribe's groundout to shortstop scored another run. Mark Ellis hit a sacrifice fly and Crawford had an RBI single to make the score 10-2.
The Blue Jays scored twice in the sixth. After two singles, a fielder's choice grounder by Brett Lawrie of Langley, B.C., scored one. A wild pitch by reliever Jose Dominguez scored the other.
The Dodgers scored four against reliever Steve Delabar in the seventh, three on Schumaker's first homer of the season that followed a single by A.J. Ellis that gave him his fifth RBI.
The Blue Jays scored once in the eighth on DeRosa's double and Rasmus' single.
Notes: Attendance at Rogers Centre was 34,515. ...Blue Jays left-hander J.A. Happ (right knee sprain) is scheduled to pitch at triple-A Buffalo on Tuesday on his rehabilitation assignment. ...In 148 games career games against the Blue Jays, Dodgers manager Don Mattingly had a .324 batting average, third behind the .325 he hit against Oakland and Texas. ..In eight career starts against the Dodgers, Johnson has a 6.69 earned-run average. ... Toronto sends out RHP Todd Redmond (1-1, 4.32 ERA) against L.A. LHP Chris Capuano (3-6, 4.63 ERA) in Tuesday's second game of the series.
