{"id":640158,"date":"2026-05-01T05:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T05:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/640158\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T05:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T05:54:18","slug":"byron-buxton-hits-third-homer-in-four-games-as-twins-topple-sloppy-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/640158\/","title":{"rendered":"Byron Buxton hits third homer in four games as Twins topple sloppy Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Byron Buxton<\/a> homered for the third time in four games and Ryan Jeffers<\/a> hit a go-ahead, two-run drive that led the Minnesota Twins<\/a> over the Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> 7- 1 on Thursday night in the opener of a four-game series.<\/p>\n

Daulton Varsho<\/a> homered off Bailey Ober<\/a> (3-1) in the fourth and Jeffers put the Twins ahead to stay at 2-1 in the bottom half against Kevin Gausman<\/a> (2-2). <\/p>\n

Buxton homered two innings later, his team-leading eighth, and Austin Martin<\/a> added an RBI single later in the sixth. Buxton was 3 for 4 in his third three-hit game this season.<\/p>\n

Minnesota won for the second time in its last nine games and the third time in 14.<\/p>\n

Ober allowed four hits in six-plus innings. Anthony Banda<\/a>, Andrew Morris and Justin Topa<\/a> combined for two-hit relief for a Twins bullpen that entered with a 5.30 ERA, fourth-worst among big league bullpens.<\/p>\n

Gausman allowed four runs, four hits and two walks in 5 2\/3 innings. The four earned runs off him were a season high.<\/p>\n

Throwing errors by third baseman Kazuma Okamoto and shortstop Andr\u00e9s Gim\u00e9nez contributed to a pair of unearned runs in a three-run eighth.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Toronto LHP Patrick Corbin<\/a> (0-0, 3.72 ERA) starts Friday against Minnesota RHP Simeon Woods Richardson<\/a> (0-4, 6.30).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n

Tyler Mason, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Byron Buxton homered for the third time in four games and Ryan Jeffers hit a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-640158","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\/640158","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=640158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}