Athletics at Toronto Blue Jays

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Athletics

0-3, 0-3 Away

Final
2 - 5

Toronto Blue Jays

3-0, 3-0 Home

Springer, Okamoto and Sánchez homer, Blue Jays beat Athletics 5-2 to complete three-game sweep

Jesús Sánchez added a two-run homer, his first with Toronto. The defending American League champions swept 11 series last season, one fewer than Milwaukee and Seattle, which led the majors.

Max Muncy hit a two-run home run for the Athletics, one of five hits for the visitors.

Toronto's Eric Lauer (1-0) allowed two runs and three hits in 5 1/3 innings. He walked one and struck out nine.

Jeff Hoffman finished for his first save. Hoffman blew the save in Friday’s season opener when he allowed a game-tying home run to Shea Langeliers in the ninth inning.

Toronto pitchers combined to strike out 50 A's batters over the weekend, a major league record for the most strikeouts in any team's first three games of the season.

The 50 strikeouts also matches the Blue Jays record for a single series. Toronto pitchers fanned 50 batters in a four-game series against Detroit to begin the 2019 season.

Springer homered on the first pitch he saw from Luis Morales. Only Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson (81) has hit more career leadoff homers.

Sánchez homered off Morales in the third, and Okamoto connected for an opposite-field drive in the fourth.

Morales (0-1) allowed five runs and five hits in 4 1/3 innings.

Muncy’s blast cut the gap in half in the top of the fifth, but the Blue Jays added another run on Addison Barger’s bases-loaded walk in the bottom half.

Up next Athletics: LHP Jacob Lopez is scheduled to start at Atlanta on Monday against Braves RHP Bryce Elder.

Blue Jays: RHP Cody Ponce is scheduled to make his Toronto debut Monday at home against Colorado, which counters with Rockies RHP Tomoyuki Sugano.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Muncy struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Wilson singled to center.
	9th Inning	Soderstrom struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Rooker grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	Hoffman relieved Fluharty
	9th Inning	Straw in left field.

Statistics

ATH		TOR
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
6	Ground Balls	6
15	Strikeouts	7
2	Runs Batted In	5
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
5	Hits	6
0	Stolen Bases	0
1	Walks	3
0	Catcher Interference	0
2	Runs	5
0	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
32	At Bats	29
1	Home Runs	3
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
6	Runners Left On Base	6
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	0
11	Fly Balls	16
0	Caught Stealing	0
133	Pitches	116
0	Games Started	0
2	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	0
9	Total Bases	15
33	Plate Appearances	32
162.0	Projected Home Runs	486.0
2	Extra Base Hits	3
1.2	Runs Created	4.1
.156	Batting Average	.207
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.281	Slugging Percentage	.517
.156	Secondary Average	.414
.182	On Base Percentage	.281
.463	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.798
0.5	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.4
1.2	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	4.6
18.0	Batter Rating	35.0
32.0	At Bats Per Home Run	9.7
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
4.03	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.63
.125	Isolated Power	.310
0.07	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.43
.030	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.094
.000	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.207
4.0	Runs Produced	10.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.3	Patience Ratio	0.6
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.2
66.8	MLB Rating	83.3
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0