Toronto Blue Jays at Los Angeles Angels

· Major League Baseball

Toronto Blue Jays

9-13, 3-7 Away

Final
5 - 2

Los Angeles Angels

11-13, 4-6 Home

Cease strikes out 12 in 5 innings and Guerrero homers as the Blue Jays beat the Angels 5-2

Toronto Blue Jays vs. Los Angeles Angels: Game Highlights

Lenyn Sosa put Toronto ahead with a sacrifice fly in the sixth, and Nathan Lukes knocked in two late insurance runs after coming off the bench.

Cease (1-0) earned his first win for the Blue Jays and finished one strikeout shy of his career high despite needing 110 pitches to get 15 outs. The right-hander, who signed a $210 million, seven-year contract as a free agent in December, limited the Angels to two runs and five hits. He walked two and whiffed Jorge Soler with a 99 mph fastball on his final pitch.

Toronto reliever Braydon Fisher threw a scoreless sixth, Louis Varland struck out three of his four batters and Tyler Rogers got the final two outs in the eighth. Struggling closer Jeff Hoffman fanned three in a one-hit ninth for his third save.

Angels left-hander Reid Detmers (1-2) gave up four runs and five hits in six innings, striking out five and walking two. Los Angeles struck out a season-high 18 times and has lost three straight.

The Blue Jays snapped a 2-all tie in the sixth after Guerrero and Eloy Jiménez singled. Guerrero went to third on Kazuma Okamoto’s grounder and scored on Sosa’s sacrifice fly.

Lukes drove in a run with a pinch-hit single in the seventh and added an RBI groundout that made it 5-2 in the ninth.

The Angels took a 1-0 lead in the first when Nolan Schanuel doubled and Soler, who had one hit and 13 strikeouts in 23 career at-bats against Cease, roped an RBI single to left field.

Toronto countered with two in the third when Davis Schneider walked and Guerrero crushed a hanging changeup 430 feet to center for his second homer this season.

The Angels tied it at 2 in the bottom half. Zach Neto walked, Mike Trout singled, and after a double steal, Schanuel hit a sacrifice fly.

Up next Blue Jays LHP Patrick Corbin (0-0, 4.66 ERA) will oppose Angels RHP Jack Kochanowicz (2-0, 3.47 ERA) on Tuesday night.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Frazier struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	O'Hoppe struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Lowe struck out looking.
	9th Inning	Adell singled to left.
	9th Inning	Hoffman relieved Rogers
	9th Inning	Clement reached on infield single to shortstop, Clement out stretching at second.

Statistics

TOR		LAA
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	0
16	Ground Balls	11
6	Strikeouts	18
5	Runs Batted In	2
2	Sacrifice Hit	0
8	Hits	6
0	Stolen Bases	3
3	Walks	3
0	Catcher Interference	0
5	Runs	2
1	Ground Into Double Play	1
1	Sacrifice Flies	1
31	At Bats	32
1	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
15	Runners Left On Base	15
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	1
12	Fly Balls	4
0	Caught Stealing	0
128	Pitches	168
0	Games Started	0
3	Pinch At Bats	0
1	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
11	Total Bases	7
38	Plate Appearances	36
162.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
1	Extra Base Hits	1
3.9	Runs Created	1.9
.258	Batting Average	.188
.333	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.355	Slugging Percentage	.219
.194	Secondary Average	.219
.333	On Base Percentage	.250
.688	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.469
1.3	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	2.8
3.9	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	1.8
31.0	Batter Rating	19.0
31.0	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.37	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.67
.097	Isolated Power	.031
0.50	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.17
.079	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.083
-.065	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.031
10.0	Runs Produced	4.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.3
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.4
82.5	MLB Rating	66.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0