Look away Blue Jays fans! Dodgers pick up right where they left off in home opener

While the Toronto Blue Jays were waiting to get their season started on Friday night (Mar. 27) against the West Sacramento Athletics, their arch rivals from last year's World Series got off to a rocking good time on the West Coast. The Los Angeles Dodgers opened their season on Thursday against the Arizona Diamondbacks and they picked up right where they left off last year.

Between Andy Pages, Will Smith, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the Dodgers left a lasting impression on Blue Jays fans for what they did in Game 7 of the World Series, and they got the fireworks going in Game One of the regular season in an 8-2 victory over Arizona.

The Dodgers open their World Series title defense in style, which must be nauseating for Blue Jays fans

In Game 7 of the World Series, Pages made a spectacular defensive play in the bottom of the ninth, running down a long fly ball hit by Ernie Clement in the gap. Pages even ran into his teammate in the process but still managed to hold onto the ball, which essentially stole the series away from the Blue Jays. Clement recently penned in a letter to Blue Jays fans on the Players Tribune that he thought he had accomplished something only two people before him have done, hitting a walk-off home run to end the World Series.

However, the ball didn't get over the wall, it didn't even hit the wall which also would have ended the series as the bases were loaded at the time. Nope, the ball went into Pages glove, while his body was entangled with Enrique Hernandez and the two Dodgers outfielders laughed at the ridiculousness of the moment that the game was continuing.

Flash forward to Thursday night, and Pages not only made some great plays in the field against the Diamondbacks, he also went 2-for-4 with a three-run home run. Dodgers catcher Smith, whose 11th inning home run in Game 7 gave the Dodgers a lead they would not surrender, also went deep against Arizona. He hit a two-run shot in the seventh inning to put the Dodgers up by six runs.

On the mound it was World Series MVP Yamamoto carving up the Diamondbacks line up. While he allowed a fourth inning two-run home run to Geraldo Perdomo, he was otherwise solid, with six strikeouts in six innings against five hits. Yamamoto pitched 17.2 total innings in the World Series (two starts, and a relief appearance in Game 7) and struck out 15 Toronto batters, giving up just two earned runs and walking two, allowing 10 hits. It was a dominant performance and rightfully so, a well earned recognition to get the MVP award.

Meantime, Blue Jays offseason free agent target Kyle Tucker had a double in four at-bats in his Dodgers debut.

The best way for Blue Jays fans to get the sour taste out of their mouth that is the Dodgers winning is by doing some winning of their own. Hopefully, they'll be doing a lot of that this season and it all gets started against the A's.