{"id":796686,"date":"2026-07-12T07:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T07:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/796686\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T07:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T07:53:10","slug":"ty-france-hits-go-ahead-homer-as-san-diego-padres-beat-toronto-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/796686\/","title":{"rendered":"Ty France hits go-ahead homer as San Diego Padres beat Toronto Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN DIEGO (AP) \u2014 Ty France<\/a> hit the go-ahead home run, Sung-Mun Song<\/a> and Manny Machado<\/a> each drove in two runs, and the San Diego Padres<\/a> beat the Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> 8-7 on Saturday night to even the three-game series.<\/p>\n

France\u2019s 377-foot solo shot off Mason Fluharty<\/a> (4-1) with two out in the bottom of the sixth capped the scoring.<\/p>\n

Machado\u2019s RBI single in the second inning tied it at 4-4 before Song followed with a two-run single in the third to reclaim the lead. Jake Cronenworth<\/a> tacked on an RBI single in the fourth.<\/p>\n

The Padres scored two runs in each of the first two innings after Trey Yesavage<\/a> issued seven walks \u2014 a franchise record through a game\u2019s first two innings. Yesavage and San Diego starter Walker Buehler<\/a> combined walked 11 batters before the end of the second inning.<\/p>\n

Bradgley Rodriguez<\/a> (2-2) pitched 1 1\/3 innings for the win, giving up one run on one hit. Mason Miller<\/a> earned his 24th save of the season in a scoreless ninth.<\/p>\n

Alejandro Kirk<\/a> doubled in a run and Andr\u00e9s Gim\u00e9nez added an RBI groundout before Jonatan Clase<\/a> crushed a two-run shot that gave the Blue Jays a 4-2 lead. Vladimir Guerrero Jr.<\/a> hit a three-run homer that made it 7-7 in the sixth.<\/p>\n

Buehler allowed four runs and three hits and walked four in two innings. <\/p>\n

Yesavage gave up four runs in 1 2\/3 innings. <\/p>\n

UP NEXT<\/p>\n

Blue Jays RHP Kevin Gausman<\/a> (4-8, 4.32 ERA) takes the mound opposite RHP Germ\u00e1n M\u00e1rquez (4-2, 5.02) in the series finale Sunday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (AP) \u2014 Ty France hit the go-ahead home run, Sung-Mun Song and Manny Machado each drove…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-796686","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\/796686","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=796686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}