TORONTO — Alex Gonzalez hit two
home runs and Vernon Wells also connected, leading Brandon Morrow and
the Toronto Blue Jays over the Oakland Athletics 10-2 Friday night.
Gonzalez hit a three-run homer in the
second inning and led off the sixth with a drive down the left-field
line. It was the eighth multihomer game of his career.
Gonzalez has hit seven home runs this
month, a team record for a shortstop in April. Marco Scutaro hit five
last April.
Wells hit his eighth home run and a
pair of singles. Toronto, which came in with an AL-leading 32 homers,
sent the A's to their sixth straight road loss.
Morrow (2-2) struck out nine and
allowed two runs in six innings. The right-hander retired 12 of his
final 13 batters.
John Buck, who hit three homers in
Toronto's win Thursday night, had two hits, including a two-run single.
He was hit by a pitch in his final plate appearance.
Kevin Kouzmanoff's RBI single gave
Oakland a 1-0 lead in the first. Toronto took the lead in the second
when Gonzalez homered off Trevor Cahill (0-1).
Oakland cut it to 3-2 on Cliff
Pennington's RBI grounder in the fourth, but the Blue Jays pushed their
lead to 5-2 in the bottom half on Buck's single.
Wells followed Adam Lind's single with
a two-run shot off Cahill in the fifth, and Toronto piled on three more
in the sixth.
Cahill left after Gonzalez's homer
and was replaced by Chad Gaudin. Buck hit a one-out single, Travis
Snider doubled and Aaron Hill hit a ground-rule double.
Cahill made his first start of the
season after being called up to pitch in place of Brett Anderson, who
has an ailing left elbow. Cahill allowed eight runs and seven hits in
five-plus innings.
Notes
Oakland infielder Steve
Tolleson singled in the ninth for his first major league hit. C Josh
Donaldson made his major league debut as a pinch-hitter in the eighth
and struck out swinging. … Toronto 3B Edwin Encarnacion (shoulder) has
played as a DH at extended spring training, and could play the field as
early as Monday, manager Cito Gaston said. … A fan ran onto the field
at the end of the sixth and made it to second base before he was
detained by security.