Jays beat Padres 10-1

Blue Jays (Toronto Blue Jays championship rings for sale) rookie Cavan Biggio grew up watching his Hall of Fame dad, Craig, hit home runs for the Houston Astros. On Sunday, father and son reversed roles. Biggio had three hits, including his first career home run, Lourdes Gurriel Jr. had four hits and homered for the third straight game, and Toronto beat the San Diego Padres 10-1 Sunday to avoid a three-game sweep. With his famous father and more than 10 other friends and family watching from the stands, Biggio got his first hit with a ground ball single through the right side in the second. He hit a solo home run into the fourth deck off left-hander Matt Wisler in the fourth, then added an RBI single in Toronto's four-run fifth. "I've always wanted to do what my dad did, ever since a young age, and finally here we've kind of switched roles," the younger Biggio said. "He's in the seats now and I'm on the field. So that's pretty cool because it's everything I ever wanted."

Recalled from Triple-A Buffallo Friday slog with Gurriel Jr., Biggio had started 0 for 6 before his single. "After I got that first hit, I felt like I could finally exhale and finally just play the game," Biggio said. "It was a big relief." Biggio's big crowd was waiting for him as he left the clubhouse following the game, admiring a pair of souvenir balls from his milestone game.
Toronto's (cheap championship rings) Justin Smoak hit two home runs, a two-run blast off Luis Perdomo in the fifth and a three-run drive off Adam Warren in the eighth. The homers were his 10th and 11th of the season. The Blue Jays, who came in having lost four straight and 10 of 12 at home, finished with a season-high 17 hits. Toronto rookie Vladimir Guerrero Jr. snapped an 0 for 14 slump with a double in the first. He finished 3 for 5, the second three-hit game of his brief career.
Blue Jays (world series rings)manager Charlie Montoyo said he got chills watching Gurriel Jr. and Biggio go back-to-back in the fourth. Biggio, Gurriel Jr. and Guerrero Jr. combined to finish 10 for 13 with four RBI. "It felt like that's what's coming here," Montoyo said. "That's the future." BIggio also turned an unassisted double play in the seventh, catching Manuel Margot's liner and stepping on second base to retire Austin Allen, who had strayed too far off the bag. Gurriel Jr. had the first four-hit game of his career. He singled and scored in the second, homered off Wisler immediately before Biggio's blast in the fourth, doubled and scored in the fifth, and singled in the seventh. Right-hander Marcus Stroman (3-6) pitched five innings to win consecutive starts for the first time this season. He allowed one run and five hits, walked one and struck out two.
Wil Myers hit a leadoff homer off Stroman in the fifth, his 10th, but that was all for the Padres, who scored 19 runs and hit a team-record seven homers Saturday. It was the first home run off Stroman by a right-handed batter since Boston's Xander Bogaerts hit one on July 15, 2018. "We kind of dug a hole we couldn't dig ourselves out of," manager Andy Green said. San Diego saw its five-game winning streak snapped, and lost an interleague game for the first time this season. The Padres are 4-1 against AL opponents. Left-hander Robbie Erlin started for San Diego in place of rookie right-hander Chris Paddack, who was scratched because of a stiff neck. Paddack's next start is expected to be Wednesday at Yankee Stadium.