Colby Rasmus, Jose Reyes and Rajai Davis homered for Toronto while Todd Redmond gave up one hit over five innings for his first career win as the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Minnesota Twins 11-5 Sunday afternoon.
Redmond proved to be a pleasant surprise in only his second career major league start. He did not give up a hit until one out in the fifth inning when Claude Hicks, batting eighth in the lineup, took him over the right-field fence with one on and one out to tie the game at 2-2 with his seventh homer of the season.
Toronto (43-45) then sent nine men to the plate in the fifth, scoring four runs on a pair of homers to jump into a 6-2 lead. There was another four-run outburst by the home side in the seventh.
The Jays outhit Minnesota 13-5 before 43,795 under the dome at the Rogers Centre.
Sunday's loss was the Twins' seventh in eight games.
The two teams traded shutouts and victories in the first two games of the series with Toronto taking the opener 4-0 and Minnesota (37-48) winning the second game 6-0.
The Jays, who came into the game having won just four of their last 13 after reeling off 11 straight wins, have now won 10 of their last 13 against Minnesota.
Redmond (1-1), who has also made three appearances out of the Jays bullpen this season, became Toronto's 13th starter in 88 games this season.
Redmond picked up by 5 relievers
It was a welcome shutdown performance after the first six games of the homestand had seen the Toronto starters post a 6.06 earned-run average.
Redmond struck out four and walked three while giving up a two-run homer. The 28-year-old from St. Petersburg, Fla., threw 84 pitches, 49 for strikes.
His first major league win — in his fifth career appearance — came after a 74-62 record in the minors that dates back to 2005.
He was 3-1 with a 5.06 ERA in six appearances for the Class-AAA Buffalo Bison before being called up by Toronto, which claimed him off waivers in March. His only previous major league start was last year for Cincinnati.
Redmond was followed by Aaron Loup, Dustin McGowan, Brett Cecil, Neil Wagner and Casey Janssen.
After walking the first batter he faced and having some trouble throwing strikes (only six of his first 16 found the plate), Redmond regrouped to retire the next 11 before issuing a walk to Canadian Justin Morneau in the fourth. A third walk cost him in the fifth, putting Clete Thomas on ahead of Hicks.
Rasmus, who came into the game leading all AL centre-fielders in home runs with 15, had knocked in two runs with another blast to give Toronto the lead in the fourth.
Reyes put Toronto ahead 3-2 with a leadoff solo homer in the fifth, his fourth home run of the season. Davis then hammered a ball into the left-field second deck, driving in Edwin Encarnacion and Mark DeRosa who had walked and singled, respectively.
Diamond roughed up in 50th career start
That chased the Twins' Canadian starter Scott Diamond. The 26-year-old left-hander from Guelph, Ont., lasted 4 2-3 innings in his 50th career major league appearance and start.
Diamond (5-8) gave up six earned runs on eight hits, walking four and striking out one. He threw 88 pitches, 50 for strikes.
Minnesota threatened in the sixth, loading the bases with one out against Loup. Chris Parmalee drove in Ryan Doumit, just beating out on a double play attempt to keep the inning alive, to cut the deficit to 6-3.
Toronto added insurance in the form of one run in the sixth inning and four in the seventh — with two coming on a rare Encarnacion triple — as the Minnesota bullpen struggled to keep the home bats quiet.
Trevor Plouffe made it 11-5 with a two-run homer — his ninth — off Cecil in the eighth.
Both starting pitchers dodged bullets early on.
Minnesota had a man on third with no outs in the first inning thanks to an opening walk, stolen base and throwing error. A strikeout and two popouts saved the day for the Jays, however.
Toronto, meanwhile, had two men on with one out in both the first and second innings but was unable to score.
Diamond settled down and retired seven straight Jays before Davis doubled with two out in the fourth. Rasmus fouled off three balls before slamming a 3-2 pitch over the right-centre fence.
Catcher J.P. Arencibia, on his bobblehead day, went 1-for-3 with a walk, single and throwing error. He flied out to the warning track in the second and seventh and hit another long ball just foul in the fourth.
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