George Springer hit two home runs and the Toronto Blue Jays held on Saturday for an 8-7 victory over the visiting athletics, who scored two points in the ninth inning.
Addison Barger added a two-run explosion and Bo Bichette had a solo recording for the Blue Jays, who won four consecutive games.
Tyler Soderstrom hit a three-run Homer and Denzel Clarke and Brent Rooker added two-run explosions for the athletics, which lost the first three games of the four-game series with Toronto and 16 of their last 17 games in general.
Toronto led 4-3 after the first inning.
Jacob Wilson and Rooker hit a single in the first half of the inning for the As, and Soderstrom hit a high slider from opener Braydon Fisher to the middle for his second Homer in two games.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. A single in Toronto’s first inning to extend his on-base streak to 31 games. Barger made a change of Gunnar Hoglund (1-3) to the right. Springer and Dulton Varsho walked and Nathan Lukes put a two-run single in the middle.
Clarke’s first Major League Homer, in the second inning, recovered the lead of athletics. The explosion to the second deck in the left by the resident of Toronto on a First-Pitch Fastball scored Luis Urria, who had walked.
Easton Lucas, recalled from Triple-A Buffalo for the game, replaced Fisher, who allowed five points, four hits and a walk, with one strikeout.
Bichette hit a zinc shed to bind the game in the second, 5-5 to his 100th career Homer.
Springer distracted the third with a homer to the middle and Toronto led 6-5. Varsho then doubled to the middle, but was easy when he was in third place and collapsed at the bag. He had taken his left hamstring after he was completed second.
Springer home again on an explosion to center in the fifth. Toronto led 8-5 in the sixth when Ernie Clement scored from third place in a wild pitch after he had led with a two-hree, his ninth hit of the series.
Lucas (3-2) threw 4 2/3 scoreless innings before Brendon Little took over in the seventh, followed by Yariel Rodriguez.
For the As, Tyler Ferguson Hoglund, who allowed eight points, 10 hits and two free runs, with one strikeout, in six innings.
Jeff Hoffman took his 13th salvation for Toronto, despite allowing the two-run Homer of Rooker in the ninth.
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