Guerrero, Varsho help Blue Jays sweep Rangers

[Pelican Press 0]

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

Guerrero, Varsho help Blue Jays sweep Rangers

Descrease article font size

Increase article font size

TORONTO – Daulton Varsho and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. homered to help the Toronto Blue Jays to a 7-3 win and sweep of the defending World Series-champion Texas Rangers on Sunday.

data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==

Varsho’s two-run blast, his 13th, landed in the Rangers bullpen in a three-run first inning, while Guerrero knocked out his team-leading 19th to right field as part of a three-run third.

The Blue Jays (49-56) won five of their nine-game homestand since the all-star break. The Rangers (51-55) lost three in a row after arriving in town with a five-game win streak.

Toronto righty Jose Berrios (9-8) gave up a run on six hits with no walks and five strikeouts in seven innings.

Related Videos

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png">

0:29
Bo Bichette going viral for openly flirting with trade

Previous Video

Next Video

Story continues below advertisement

Texas starter Jon Gray aggravated a right groin injury while warming up in the first inning. He was replaced by Jonathan Hernandez (3-1) before leadoff hitter Spencer Horwitz arrived at the plate.

The email you need for the day’s
top news stories from Canada and around the world.

data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==

Get daily National news

Get the day’s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.

By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News’

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

and

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

.

The Rangers bullpen already was stretched thin after Saturday’s starter Michael Lorenzen ******* to finish the first inning.

Lorenzen wound up making an appearance to start the fifth and worked the final four innings.

Before Varsho’s two-run homer with Ernie Clement aboard, Guerrero knocked in the first run with a sacrifice fly to left field.

Guerrero’s homer in the third was with one out. Addison Barger then knocked in Justin Turner and Varsho with a double to right-centre.

Varsho opened Saturday’s game with a three-run blast.

After Nathaniel Lowe’s run-scoring single off Berrios put the Rangers on the board in the sixth, Leo Jimenez’s sacrifice fly scored Alejandro Kirk in the bottom half of the inning.

Trending Now

• data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==

  Jasper wildfire: Before-and-after photos show destruction of town

• data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==

  Farmers’ markets, business groups feuding with Loblaws over disparaging text ad

Genesis Cabrera replaced Berrios to start the eighth and promptly gave up a two-run homer to Josh Smith.

Barger and Turner led the Blue Jays offence with two hits apiece before 40,092 at Rogers Centre.

CATCHER CALL-UP

Story continues below advertisement

With catcher Danny Jansen traded to the Boston Red Sox on Saturday, the Blue Jays recalled Brian Serven from Triple-A Buffalo. The 29-year-old Serven saw action in five Blue Jays games earlier this season.

ON DECK

The Blue Jays begin a four-game set with a doubleheader in Baltimore against the Orioles on Monday.

Yusei Kikuchi, whose three-year contract expires at the end of the year, is the most likely to be moved before the trade Tuesday 6 p.m. trade deadline.

This report by The ********* Press was first published July 28, 2024.

&copy 2024 The ********* Press

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

#Guerrero #Varsho #Blue #Jays #sweep #Rangers

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up