{"id":861587,"date":"2026-09-26T17:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T17:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/861587\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T17:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T17:38:11","slug":"okamoto-drives-in-three-as-blue-jays-beat-reds-6-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/861587\/","title":{"rendered":"Okamoto drives in three as Blue Jays beat Reds 6-5"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Nathan Lukes hit a go-ahead single in a four-run seventh inning, Kazuma Okamoto had two hits and three RBIs, and the Toronto Blue Jays rallied to beat the Cincinnati Reds 6-5 on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati\u2019s Elly De La Cruz stole third base in the third inning to become the fourth player in Reds history with at least 30 home runs and 30 stolen bases<\/a> in the same season.<\/p>\n

De La Cruz, who started at DH on Friday, hit his 30th home run in Thursday\u2019s 7-6 win at Atlanta<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mason Fluharty (7-1) got two outs for the win and Louis Varland worked a 1-2-3 ninth against the top of the lineup for his 35th save in 37 chances.<\/p>\n

Alejandro Kirk and Okamoto hit RBI doubles off Nick Lodolo in the first. Cincinnati\u2019s Eugenio Su\u00e1rez hit a home run in the second to make it 2-1.<\/p>\n

The Reds chased Jos\u00e9 Soriano with a four-run third. De La Cruz hit a two-run double, stole third and scored on Sal Stewart\u2019s single. H\u00e9ctor Rodr\u00edguez drove in the fourth run with a fielder\u2019s choice.<\/p>\n

Soriano allowed five runs and eight hits.<\/p>\n

Toronto’s seventh began with back-to-back walks issued by Luis Mey (0-2).<\/p>\n

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. followed with an RBI single, a hit that was redirected when the bouncing ball was struck by a flying piece of Guerrero\u2019s broken bat.<\/p>\n

After George Springer reached on Oswaldo Cabrera\u2019s fielding error, Pierce Johnson replaced Mey. Okamoto greeted Johnson with a tying double to center and Lukes followed with his RBI single.<\/p>\n

Before the game, Guerrero apologized for recent comments<\/a> about his 14-year, $500 million contract. He finished 1 for 5.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Blue Jays RHP Trey Yesavage (5-5, 3.67 ERA) is scheduled to start Saturday against Reds RHP Rhett Lowder (6-12, 6.01).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Nathan Lukes hit a go-ahead single in a four-run seventh inning, Kazuma Okamoto had two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":861588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[41445,2722,2724,15056,363,3,6454,100813,7739,99,452],"class_list":["post-861587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-cincinnati","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-ohio","tag-ohio-cincinnati-reds","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861587","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=861587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}