{"id":679513,"date":"2026-04-20T01:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/679513\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T01:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:10:20","slug":"blue-jays-ride-8-run-first-inning-to-a-10-4-win-over-the-diamondbacks-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/679513\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays ride 8-run first inning to a 10-4 win over the Diamondbacks | National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Kazuma Okamoto hit a solo homer and had three RBIs, Nathan Lukes added a three-run double and the Toronto Blue Jays used an eight-run first inning to cruise past the Arizona Diamondbacks for a 10-4 victory Sunday that prevented a three-game sweep.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto snapped a four-game losing streak and ended Arizona&#8217;s four-game winning streak.<\/p>\n<p>Ryne Nelson (1-2) was rocked for eight runs and got just one out. His season ERA jumped from 3.54 to 6.97.<\/p>\n<p>The first eight Blue Jays batters reached base on five singles, two doubles and a walk. Nelson finally struck out Brandon Valenzuela, but Lukes followed with a bases-clearing double for an 8-0 lead, ending Nelson&#8217;s day after only 30 pitches.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto starter Kevin Gausman (1-1) gave up two runs over six solid innings. He permitted seven hits and a walk while striking out four. Lukes \u2014 who entered the game batting .162 \u2014 finished with three hits.<\/p>\n<p>Okamoto hit his third homer of the season in the third, smacking Andrew Hoffmann&#8217;s slider 406 feet over the left-centre wall.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona&#8217;s Ildemaro Vargas has hit safety in his first 15 games this season, which extends a franchise record. He has an 18-game hitting streak dating to last season, which is the longest active run in the big leagues.<\/p>\n<p>Diamondbacks All-Star outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/diamondbacks-corbin-carroll-injury-5df0c7fcfb83a5115461d64ee123f995\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corbin Carroll left before the fifth inning because of low back tightness.<\/a> Jorge Barrosa replaced him and hit a two-run homer in the seventh.<\/p>\n<p>UP NEXT<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays continue their road trip Monday. RHP Dylan Cease (0-0, 1.74 ERA) opposes Angels LHP Reid Detmers (1-1, 3.57).<\/p>\n<p>The D-backs are off Monday before continuing their homestand Tuesday. RHP Merrill Kelly (1-0, 3.38 ERA) faces White Sox RHP Sean Burke (0-2, 4.43).<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Kazuma Okamoto hit a solo homer and had three RBIs, Nathan Lukes added a three-run&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[2309,5,2316,2313,2325,2413,2335,389,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,2327,2321,185,2350,2312],"class_list":{"0":"post-679513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-ball-and-bat-games","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-baseball-competitions","11":"tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","12":"tag-baseball-teams","13":"tag-champion-seasons-in-major-league-baseball","14":"tag-home-run","15":"tag-kevin-gausman","16":"tag-major-league-baseball","17":"tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","18":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","19":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","20":"tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","21":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams","22":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","23":"tag-mlb","24":"tag-mlb-playoffs","25":"tag-mlb-postseason","26":"tag-seasons-in-american-sport","27":"tag-seasons-in-baseball","28":"tag-sports","29":"tag-strikeout","30":"tag-turf-sports"},"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\/679513","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=679513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}