{"id":111974,"date":"2025-06-18T02:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T02:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/111974\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T02:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T02:32:10","slug":"bichette-barger-hit-back-to-back-homers-in-9th-as-blue-jays-rally-past-diamondbacks-5-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/111974\/","title":{"rendered":"Bichette, Barger hit back-to-back homers in 9th as Blue Jays rally past Diamondbacks 5-4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Bo Bichette and Addison Barger hit back-to-back home runs off Shelby Miller in the ninth inning and the Toronto Blue Jays rallied to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-4 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Hoffman (6-2) pitched one inning for the win as Toronto snapped a three-game skid.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Toronto trailed 4-3 heading to the final frame before Bichette tied it with a one-out drive to left, his ninth of the season. Barger followed with a game-winning shot to right, his eighth.<\/p>\n<p>For Miller (3-2), the blown save was his fourth in 11 chances.<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit his ninth homer of the season and drove in three runs for the Blue Jays, who were swept at Philadelphia over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Diamondbacks came in having won five of six. Arizona failed to hit a home run for the first time in 11 games.<\/p>\n<p>Key moment<\/p>\n<p>Naylor gave Arizona a 3-2 lead with an RBI double off Chris Bassitt in the fifth, but was upset to see former Cleveland teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/blue-jays-jonatan-clase-myles-straw-8af0474d479f6b928ebce988280abaaa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Myles Straw injured after crashing into the center field wall;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Myles Straw injured after crashing into the center field wall<\/a> trying to make the catch. Naylor walked all the way out to check on Straw, who exited because of a sprained right ankle.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Key stat<\/p>\n<p>Guerrero\u2019s 448-foot homer in the third inning was his longest of the season. The second-deck drive had an exit velocity of 112 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>LHP Eric Lauer (2-1, 2.37 ERA) is scheduled to start for the Blue Jays on Wednesday against Diamondbacks LHP Eduardo Rodriguez (2-3, 6.27).<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Bo Bichette and Addison Barger hit back-to-back home runs off Shelby Miller in the ninth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[6081,146,22,4314,8677,5,88,82,135,38,756,1497,380,4,6082,1086,144,849,70,93],"class_list":{"0":"post-111974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-diamondbacks","8":"tag-addison-barger","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","11":"tag-arizonadiamondbacks","12":"tag-barger","13":"tag-baseball","14":"tag-bo-bichette","15":"tag-chris-bassitt","16":"tag-cleveland","17":"tag-diamondbacks","18":"tag-eduardo-rodriguez","19":"tag-eric-lauer","20":"tag-jeff-hoffman","21":"tag-mlb","22":"tag-myles-straw","23":"tag-ninth-inning","24":"tag-philadelphia","25":"tag-shelby-miller","26":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","27":"tag-vladimir-guerrero-jr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114702027847928969","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}