TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Troy Johnston hit a two-run homer, Ezequiel Tovar had three hits and three RBIs, and the Colorado Rockies won for the first time this season by routing the Toronto Blue Jays 14-5 on Monday night.<\/p>\n
After losing three straight one-run games in a weekend sweep at Miami, Colorado thumped the previously undefeated Blue Jays to avoid the first 0-4 start in team history. The Rockies are 2-11 all-time in Toronto.<\/p>\n
Braxton Fulford also homered as Colorado finished with 17 hits. The Rockies had 19 hits in three games at Miami.<\/p>\n
George Springer, Kazuma Okamota and Andr\u00e9s Gim\u00e9nez each hit a solo homer for the AL champion Blue Jays. Davis Schneider added a two-run drive.<\/p>\n
Toronto pitcher Cody Ponce was carted off the field in the third inning of his first big league appearance since 2021.<\/p>\n
Ponce injured his right knee when he stumbled and fell while trying to make a play on Jake McCarthy\u2019s grounder, allowing Kyle Karros to score the first run of the game.<\/p>\n
Ponce allowed one run and one hit in 2 1\/3 innings. He walked one and struck out two.<\/p>\n
Louis Varland (0-1) replaced Ponce and permitted one run in 1 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
Blue Jays pitchers struck out 10 batters, giving them a major league-record 60 strikeouts through the first four games. The 2000 Cincinnati Reds struck out 59 in their first four games.<\/p>\n
Chase Dollander (1-0) pitched the final four innings for Colorado.<\/p>\n
After Springer’s second homer of the season tied it in the third, Tovar broke the tie by scoring on Ernie Clement’s fielding error at second base in the fourth.<\/p>\n
The Rockies pulled away with a seven-run sixth, sending 11 batters to the plate, then used six straight hits to score four more against position player Tyler Heineman in the eighth.<\/p>\n
RHP Max Scherzer is expected to start for the Blue Jays on Tuesday against Rockies RHP Ryan Feltner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Troy Johnston hit a two-run homer, Ezequiel Tovar had three hits and three RBIs, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[2043,5,54086,167,52,4316,13860,6130,869,311,3917,83633,39318,6438,381,4,9500,9501,9496,9497,83038,168,83632,282,22739,15820],"class_list":["post-653905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-colorado-rockies","tag-andres-gimenez","tag-baseball","tag-cody-ponce","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-coloradorockies","tag-davis-schneider","tag-ernie-clement","tag-ezequiel-tovar","tag-george-springer","tag-jake-mccarthy","tag-kazuma-okamota","tag-kyle-karros","tag-louis-varland","tag-max-scherzer","tag-mlb","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40777-ap-colorado-sports-only","tag-rockies","tag-rockies-blue-jays-score","tag-toronto","tag-troy-johnston","tag-tyler-heineman"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653905","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=653905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}