{"id":592932,"date":"2026-04-19T03:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T03:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/592932\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T03:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T03:20:08","slug":"diamondbacks-6-2-blue-jays-apr-18-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/592932\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks 6-2 Blue Jays (Apr 18, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOENIX — \u2014 Corbin Carroll<\/a> hit a grand slam to break an eighth-inning tie and the Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> beat the Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> 6-2 on Saturday night for their fourth straight victory.<\/p>\n

Ildemaro Vargas<\/a> led off the eighth against reliever Jeff Hoffman<\/a> (1-2) with a single, extending his majors-leading hitting streak to 17 games dating to last season.<\/p>\n

Alek Thomas<\/a> followed with a single and Ketel Marte<\/a> drew a four-pitch walk. Carroll then hit his fourth career grand slam and third homer of the season, a drive to left-center on a 3-1 pitch.<\/p>\n

Juan Morillo<\/a> (1-1) pitched 1 1\/3 innings for his first victory in the majors.<\/p>\n

Toronto\u2019s Max Scherzer<\/a> returned to the place where his big-league journey began and, after struggling his first three starts, showed flashes of his brilliant career. He got through a 22-pitch first inning allowing just one run, then completed six innings having allowed five hits total. He had one walk and one strikeout in finishing with 74 pitches.<\/p>\n

Lourdes Gurriel returned to the Diamondbacks\u2019 lineup for the first time since tearing the ACL in his right knee Sept. 1. The left fielder was 0 for 4 and threw out Myles Straw<\/a> trying to stretch a single into a double to end the Toronto fourth.<\/p>\n

The Blue Jays tied it in the sixth after an overturned call kept the inning going. With Eloy Jim\u00e9nez on first base and one out, Andr\u00e9s Gim\u00e9nez hit a grounder to first for an apparent double play. But the replay showed shortstop Geraldo Perdomo<\/a> was off the bag at second. Kazuma Okamoto<\/a> followed with a two-out RBI single to tie it at 2 and chase Zac Gallen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gallen gave up nine hits but just two runs in 5 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Toronto RHP Kevin Gausman<\/a> (0-1, 2.42) was set to face RHP Ryne Nelson<\/a> (1-1, 3.54) on Sunday in the series finale.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX — \u2014 Corbin Carroll hit a grand slam to break an eighth-inning tie and the Arizona Diamondbacks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-592932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}