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TORONTO (AP) — Teoscar Hernández deed his 100th vocation location run, José Berríos took a no-hitter into the 5th inning and the Blue Jays survived a precocious scare to bushed the Oakland Athletics 10-8 Saturday, Toronto’s sixth triumph successful 7 games.
“The cardinal was Berríos,” Blue Jays manager Charlie Montoyo said. “Everything starts connected the mound. He was outstanding. He commanded his fastball. When helium does that, he’s the feline that we thought we were going to get.”
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Berríos (10-7) allowed 3 runs and 4 hits successful 6 2-3 innings to triumph back-to-back starts, beating Oakland for the archetypal clip successful 7 vocation meetings. He walked nary and struck retired seven.
“The past 2 outings I’ve been capable to find my fastball to some sides of the plate,” Berríos said. “That’s wherefore my secondary pitches enactment good disconnected the fastball.”
Berríos has not walked a batter successful 3 consecutive outings, matching the longest specified streak of his career.
“He’s a competitor,” Blue Jays catcher Danny Jansen said aft moving with Berríos for the archetypal time. “I had a blast.”
With the defeat, the Athletics mislaid much crushed successful the AL chaotic paper race, dropping 4 games down Boston aft the Red Sox bushed Cleveland 4-3 Saturday. Toronto is 5 games back.
Breyvic Valera deed a two-run homer portion Jansen and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. each had solo shots arsenic the Blue Jays boosted their location tally full to 204. San Francisco had 201 location runs entering play Saturday.
Oakland pitchers allowed astatine slightest 3 location runs for the 5th consecutive game, extending a dubious franchise record.
Mark Canha deed a three-run homer for Oakland and finished with 4 RBIs. Sean Murphy added a two-run blast and Matt Chapman deed a solo shot.
The Athletics scored 5 runs successful the ninth but inactive mislaid for the 3rd clip successful 4 games. Oakland has scored astatine slightest six runs successful each 3 of those losses.
Hernández’s milestone homer was a three-run changeable disconnected Jake Diekman successful the seventh. It was his 24th of the play and 2nd successful 2 games.
Gurriel’s homer, his 16th, was besides his 2nd successful 2 games. He deed a game-tying expansive slam successful the eighth inning of Toronto’s 11-10 triumph Friday.
Gurriel added a three-run treble disconnected Burch Smith successful the eighth. Gurriel finished 3 for 5 with 4 RBIs.
Jansen’s homer was his sixth and Valera’s was his first. Jansen went 3 for 4 with 2 doubles.
All 9 Blue Jays starters had astatine slightest 1 deed arsenic Toronto finished with 15.
Berríos deed the 2nd batter of the game, Tony Kemp, but Kemp was caught stealing arsenic portion of a treble play arsenic Matt Olson struck retired to extremity the first.
It was the archetypal clip Oakland had been caught stealing successful 22 attempts, snapping their streak 1 shy of matching the squad record.
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Berríos acceptable down the adjacent 9 batters successful bid earlier Chapman connected to statesman the fifth, his 24th.
Berríos near aft Mark Canha’s two-out RBI azygous successful the seventh. Adam Cimber came connected and gave up an RBI azygous to Chad Pinder earlier Sean Murphy grounded into a fielder’s choice.
Joakim Soria started the ninth but allowed each 4 batters helium faced to reach, giving up Canha’s homer and leaving with a runner astatine first.
Jordan Romano came connected and gave up Murphy’s homer, his 16th, past retired the adjacent 3 batters, striking retired Khris Davis to extremity it.
Montoyo said Romano would not beryllium disposable Sunday aft pitching successful back-to-back games.
Oakland’s Paul Blackburn (0-2) allowed 4 runs and 9 hits successful 3 2-3 innings.
“That’s a beauteous bully lineup to effort to navigate through,” Athletics manager Bob Melvin said. “You effort to bounds your walks against them, which helium did, but evidently they got their stock of hits disconnected him.”
Oakland’s Starling Marte was held retired of the starting lineup aft being deed connected the near broadside of his caput Friday by a fastball from Alek Manoah. Melvin said Marte was inactive sore, but is not thought to person a concussion. Marte was moving retired earlier the crippled to spot however his assemblage responded to activity, Melvin said.
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Toronto scored 10 oregon much runs for the 18th time. Only Cincinnati (19) has done it much often this season.
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The Blue Jays person had 10 oregon much hits successful 57 games this season, 1 shy of Houston’s ML-leading total.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Blue Jays: INF Cavan Biggio (back, elbow) took batting signifier earlier the game. He is expected to statesman a rehab duty with Triple-A Buffalo adjacent week.
ROSTER MOVES:
Toronto added INF/OF Jake Lamb to the roster and optioned LHP Kirby Snead to Triple-A. The Blue Jays claimed Lamb disconnected waivers Friday from the Chicago White Sox.
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LHP Robbie Ray (10-5, 2.71) starts for Toronto successful Sunday’s bid finale. Ray has allowed 2 earned runs oregon less successful 10 of his past 11 starts. LHP Cole Irvin (9-12, 3.74) goes for the Athletics.
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