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Toronto Blue Jays’ Brandon Valenzuela (59) hits a two-run home run against the Minnesota Twins during the fourth inning.Chris Young\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Rookie Brandon Valenzuela belted his first career homer, a two-run shot that concluded a five-run fourth inning to help the Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> overcome a four-run deficit and defeat the Minnesota Twins 10-4 on Friday.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old Valenzuela\u2019s blast to right field off Minnesota starter Simeon Woods Richardson (0-2) came in his 10th career at-bat. Valenzuela scored Andres Gimenez, who pulled the home side to within 4-3 after a hard-hit single to left field that scored Davis Schneider.<\/p>\n

The Blue Jays (6-7) have now won back-to-back games after six straight losses. The Twins (7-7) saw their four-game win streak snapped before 40,721 at Rogers Centre.<\/p>\n

Daulton Varsho slammed a solo shot in the fifth, and Ernie Clement\u2019s double scored Schneider in the sixth inning. Clement scored the eighth run on George Springer\u2019s double to left.<\/p>\n

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had three hits and an RBI, while Schneider went 2 for 3 with two RBI in Toronto\u2019s 14-hit attack.<\/p>\n

Lefty Patrick Corbin, 36, went four innings in his Blue Jays debut. He hit two batters, gave up four runs on six hits with three strikeouts, a walk and homers to Ryan Jeffers in the first inning and Brooks Lee in the fourth.<\/p>\n

Woods Richardson, who was traded by the Blue Jays five years ago in the deal that landed Jose Berrios, was good for four innings. He gave up five runs on six hits with a walk and two strikeouts.<\/p>\n

Takeaways<\/p>\n

Blue Jays: Relievers Tommy Nance, Joe Mantiply (1-0), Louis Varland and Braydon Fisher combined for five shutout innings and nine strikeouts.<\/p>\n

Twins: Catcher Ryan Jeffers managed a 3 for 3 game, including a three-run blast into the left-field seats for his first homer in 2026. He reached base a fourth time when he was hit by Fisher in the eighth.<\/p>\n

Key moment<\/p>\n

Valenzuela\u2019s two-out, two-run game-winning homer in the fourth inning.<\/p>\n

Key statCorbin was the eighth left-handed starter the Twins have faced in 14 outings this season. They have dropped five of those games.Up next<\/p>\n

Toronto lefty Eric Lauer (1-1) will face Minnesota\u2019s Joe Ryan (1-1) in the middle outing of the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Toronto Blue Jays’ Brandon Valenzuela (59) hits a two-run home run against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[7508,7493,5,7509,377,2554,5965,5961,7510,1465,7488,7499,7500,7495,7489,7487,6589,7506,7504,7498,7492,7521,7490,7491,7497,7494,5826,1358,7511,4,5755,7516,7517,7519,7514,7518,7512,7515,5719,7502,7503,1239,7501,7513,317,7505,282,70,2553,7507,7496,4750,6984,7520],"class_list":{"0":"post-673160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-alberta","9":"tag-arts-news","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-bc","12":"tag-blue-jays","13":"tag-bluejays","14":"tag-breaking-news","15":"tag-breaking-news-video","16":"tag-british-columbia","17":"tag-canada","18":"tag-canada-news","19":"tag-canada-sports","20":"tag-canada-sports-news","21":"tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","22":"tag-canadian-breaking-news","23":"tag-canadian-news","24":"tag-economy","25":"tag-education","26":"tag-environment","27":"tag-federal-government","28":"tag-foreign-news","29":"tag-globe-and-mail","30":"tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","31":"tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","32":"tag-government","33":"tag-life-news","34":"tag-lifestyle","35":"tag-local-news","36":"tag-manitoba","37":"tag-mlb","38":"tag-national-news","39":"tag-new-brunswick","40":"tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","41":"tag-northwest-territories","42":"tag-nova-scotia","43":"tag-nunavut","44":"tag-ontario","45":"tag-pei","46":"tag-photos","47":"tag-political-news","48":"tag-political-opinion","49":"tag-politics","50":"tag-politics-news","51":"tag-quebec","52":"tag-sports-news","53":"tag-technology","54":"tag-toronto","55":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","56":"tag-torontobluejays","57":"tag-travel","58":"tag-trudeau","59":"tag-us-news","60":"tag-world-news","61":"tag-yukon"},"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\/673160","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=673160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}