Two throwback starters and future first-ballot hall of famers, baseball’s biggest star in Shohei Ohtani on a night pitting two of the best teams in what some viewed as a potential World Series preview.

It all made for a sporting stage befitting Hollywood, by far the highest profiled and most anticipated game the Jays will play this season until the cauldron of October rolls around.

To add to the occasion, the Max Scherzer-Clayton Kershaw pitching duel was undoubtedly their final showdown, barring that is an actual Jays-Dodgers matchup in the Fall Classic.

Either way, Friday night at Chavez Ravine was not an ordinary game.

Above all else, the Jays were abundantly made aware that they were not playing the Colorado Rockies.

They were exposed to what playoff baseball is all about against

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