{"id":51255,"date":"2025-08-07T05:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T05:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/51255\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T05:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T05:08:09","slug":"blue-jays-set-mlb-record-for-hits-in-a-3-game-series-to-complete-sweep-of-rockies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/51255\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays set MLB record for hits in a 3-game series to complete sweep of Rockies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had four hits, including a home run, and Davis Schneider went deep twice as the Toronto Blue Jays capped their Coors Field onslaught Wednesday with a 20-1 victory over the Colorado Rockies.<\/p>\n<p>The first-place Blue Jays finished with five homers and 24 hits to set a major league record with 63 hits in a three-game series. They established a franchise mark with 45 runs in the three-game set.<\/p>\n<p>Bo Bichette and Ernie Clement also homered for the AL East leaders, who outscored the Rockies 45-6 in the series and are 26-11 since June 25. Toronto hit 13 home runs in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Ty France had four doubles and Clement added four hits. Bichette and Schneider had four RBIs apiece.<\/p>\n<p>Guerrero extended his on-base streak to 23 games, the longest current streak in the American League.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto scored its final eight runs in the ninth inning off Colorado catcher Austin Nola, who gave up eight hits \u2014 including homers by Schneider and Clement.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Gausman (8-8) allowed one run and three hits in seven innings. He struck out six and walked two.<\/p>\n<p>Bichette hit a three-run homer off Kyle Freeland (2-12) in the third for a 3-1 lead. Nathan Lukes had a two-run triple in the fifth and Schneider homered off Angel Chivilli to begin a five-run sixth. Guerrero connected in the eighth.<\/p>\n<p>Bichette and Daulton Varsho, who did not play Wednesday, both had three homers in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Guerrero went 8 for 17 with two homers and four RBIs. Bichette was 7 for 17 with 10 RBIs, and Lukes was 6 for 13 with six RBIs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had four hits, including a home run, and Davis Schneider went deep twice as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-51255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}