TORONTO \u2014 Sean Keys hit his first career home run, Myles Straw added a pinch-hit shot and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the New York Mets 9-3 in a Canada Day matinee Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Kazuma Okamoto, Ernie Clement and Daulton Varsho had RBI hits as the Blue Jays took two of three games from New York in the series.<\/p>\n
Alejandro Kirk went 2 for 2 with two walks and scored twice. Toronto is 24-9 when scoring five or more runs.<\/p>\n
Carson Benge hit a two-run homer and Francisco Lindor added a solo drive but the Mets lost for the 10th time in 12 games and dropped their fifth consecutive series.<\/p>\n
Keys was promoted from Triple-A Buffalo last week after hitting 21 home runs at two minor league levels this season.<\/p>\n
After Clement hit an RBI double in the third, Keys followed with a three-run homer off Freddy Peralta that made it 5-0.<\/p>\n
Peralta (5-7) allowed five runs and seven hits in four innings, his third straight winless start. He walked three and struck out four.<\/p>\n
Toronto went 3 for 7 with runners in scoring position against Peralta. Opposing batters have gone 19 for 49 (.388) with runners in scoring position against the right-hander in his past eight starts.<\/p>\n
The Blue Jays added four more against Cionel P\u00e9rez in the seventh. Varsho hit an RBI single and Straw added a three-run homer, his third.<\/p>\n
Benge homered off Patrick Corbin in the eighth, his 10th. Lindor connected off Corbin in the ninth, his fourth.<\/p>\n
Braydon Fisher opened for Toronto and Spencer Miles (4-1) followed with three innings of one-hit ball. Corbin came on in the fifth and pitched the final five innings for his first save since 2016.<\/p>\n
Before the game, the Blue Jays put designated hitter George Springer on the paternity list and recalled outfielder Jonatan Clase from Triple-A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Sean Keys hit his first career home run, Myles Straw added a pinch-hit shot and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,148,49,39106],"class_list":["post-112767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-top-stories-trt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}