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

Jeff McNeil legs out winning single in 9th inning, lifts A's to 6-5 victory over Blue Jays

Addison Barger's walk forces in Tyler Heineman

Andrés Giménez hit a tying solo homer in the ninth for the Blue Jays (72-73), who remained a game behind Cleveland for the last American League wild card. Alejandro Kirk and Kazuma Okamoto also went deep, but Toronto ace Dylan Cease gave up five runs — four earned — in five innings.

Henry Bolte homered and scored three times from the leadoff spot for the A’s, who have won five of six following a five-game losing streak. The rookie drew three walks and stole three bases.

Zack Gelof also homered and knocked in a pair of runs for the Athletics. He swiped two bases and scored twice.

Max Muncy reached on an infield single to start the bottom of the ninth before Louis Varland (5-5) walked Donovan Walton and Bolte to load the bases with two outs. McNeil hit a slow roller to shortstop and beat the throw to first as the winning run scored.

Gelof drove in the first run with a ground-rule double in the first inning. He scored on a throwing error by Okamoto at third base.

Kirk homered to right-center leading off the second.

Carlos Cortes had an RBI single for the A's in a two-run third and Bolte smashed his ninth homer over the right-field wall to make it 5-1 in the fifth.

Okamoto hit his 29th home run off starter Jacob Lopez in the seventh. Toronto scored twice more in the inning on an RBI double by Giménez and a sacrifice fly by pinch-hitter Josh Smith.

Giménez went deep against Hogan Harris (4-2) with one out in the ninth to tie it 5-all.

Up next Blue Jays RHP José Soriano (11-7, 3.52 ERA) pitches Tuesday against RHP Jack Perkins (3-10, 6.50) in the second game of the series.

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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