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06/22 22:12 CDT Kazuma Okamoto homers and Blue Jays' bullpen shuts the door in
4-2 victory over Astros
Kazuma Okamoto homers and Blue Jays' bullpen shuts the door in 4-2 victory over
Astros
TORONTO (AP) --- Pinch-hitter Myles Straw drove in the go-ahead run in the
seventh inning with one of Toronto's three sacrifice flies, and Kazuma Okamoto
homered to help the Blue Jays beat the Houston Astros 4-2 on Monday night.
Louis Varland issued a leadoff walk to Yainer Diaz in the ninth, but Joey
Loperfido grounded into a double play two pitches later. Varland then struck
out pinch-hitter Taylor Trammell to secure his 16th save.
Toronto (39-39) got back to .500 for the first time since May 29 at the start
of a 10-game homestand, the team's longest this season.
Jeremy Pea singled on the first pitch from Blue Jays starter Dylan Cease and
scored on a one-out single by Isaac Paredes to put the Astros up 1-0 in the
first. Cease loaded the bases before getting a double-play grounder from Diaz
to limit the damage in a 26-pitch inning.
Pea left in the sixth after aggravating a previous hamstring injury on a swing.
Cease allowed two runs and three hits with four walks in 5 2/3 innings. The
right-hander struck out eight and retired 14 in a row before issuing one-out
walks to Yordan Alvarez and Christian Walker in the sixth. Paredes lined out to
left field, but Jose Altuve tied it at 2 with a two-strike single on Cease's
110th and final pitch.
Braydon Fisher (3-2) entered and retired Diaz on a comebacker. Fisher got four
outs on six pitches to earn the win.
Okamoto tied it 1-all when he led off the second against Hunter Brown with his
17th homer. Brown left after three innings and 85 pitches in his fourth start
this season and second since coming off the injured list.
Enyel De Los Santos (0-2) gave up Daulton Varsho's infield single and Okamoto's
double with one out in the seventh before Straw lofted his sacrifice fly
against Bryan King.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. drove in Andrs Gimnez with a sac fly in the fourth to
give the Blue Jays a 2-1 lead. Alejandro Kirk's sac fly in the eighth scored
George Springer to make it 4-2.
Brice Matthews and Alvarez singled off Tyler Rogers in the eighth before Walker
grounded into a double play. Rogers walked Paredes but retired Altuve to keep
it 3-2.
Up next
Astros RHP Peter Lambert (6-4, 3.23 ERA) starts Tuesday opposite Blue Jays RHP
Shane Bieber, making his first start this season.
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