Toronto 5, LA Angels 3
When: 7:07 PM ET, Thursday, August 22, 2024
Where: Rogers Centre, Toronto, Ontario
Temperature:
75°
Umpires:
Home -
Edwin Jimenez, 1B -
Ryan Additon, 2B -
Doug Eddings, 3B -
Gabe Morales
Attendance:
25900
By Field Level Media
Ernie Clement keyed a five-run second inning with a two-run home run and the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the visiting Los Angeles Angels 5-3 on Thursday night.
Clement homered in his third consecutive game and the Blue Jays homered in their 11th consecutive game as they took the opener of a four-game series. Toronto, which is 2-2 during a seven-game homestand, swept a three-game series with the Angels last week in Anaheim.
Niko Kavadas hit a three-run homer for his first major league hit in the ninth and Jo Adell added three hits for the Angels, who are 1-3 to begin their 10-game road trip.
Both teams used an opener. Angels left-hander Brock Burke (1-1) allowed three runs and three hits in one-plus inning. Toronto right-hander Ryan Burr allowed two hits and a walk in one-plus inning.
Toronto left-hander Ryan Yarbrough (5-2) tossed five scoreless innings, allowing three hits and striking out four to earn the win.
Toronto took a 5-0 lead in the second. Spencer Horwitz and Alejandro Kirk opened with doubles before Will Wagner singled home Kirk. Mike Baumann replaced Burke and yielded Clement's 10th homer of the season, a drive to left on a high 97-mph fastball. Joey Loperfido tripled and scored on George Springer's groundout.
Angels right-hander Griffin Canning pitched four perfect innings before allowing Loperfido's leadoff single in the seventh. Canning's only other baserunner allowed over six innings came on Kirk's two-out double in the eighth.
Toronto's Tommy Nance struck out the side in the eighth but allowed a two-out, three-run homer to Kavada in the ninth. It followed Adell's double and Matt Thaiss' walk.
The Blue Jays' Daulton Varsho doubled in the second to extend his on-base streak to 20 games.
The Angels' Mickey Moniak was hit by on the left elbow by a pitch in the fourth. He stayed in but was replaced in the bottom of the inning by former Blue Jay Kevin Pillar.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| LA Angels |
|
Toronto |
|
Brock Burke
|
Player |
Ryan Burr
|
|
Loss |
W/L |
No Decision |
|
1.0 |
IP |
1.0 |
|
1 |
Strikeouts |
2 |
|
3 |
Hits |
2 |
|
27.00 |
ERA |
0.00 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| LA Angels
|
9 |
1 |
13 |
.273 |
13 |
10 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
| Toronto
|
8 |
1 |
17 |
.250 |
7 |
7 |
5 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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