{"id":679750,"date":"2026-04-20T12:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/679750\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:51:19","slug":"blue-jays-tie-franchise-record-with-eight-runs-in-first-inning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/679750\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays tie franchise record with eight runs in first inning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coming into Sunday’s contest against the Arizona Diamondbacks amidst a major slump, the Blue Jays’ bats woke up in a big way.<\/p>\n

Toronto tied a franchise record with eight first-inning runs, sending 12 batters to the plate, collecting eight hits and walking once.<\/p>\n

The Blue Jays had previously scored eight runs in the first inning twice.<\/p>\n

They reached the mark against the Baltimore Orioles on Sept. 26, 2007, and against the New York Yankees on July 14, 2011.<\/p>\n

The Blue Jays opened the game with seven straight hits off Arizona starter Ryne Nelson, with the big blow coming off the bat of Kazuma Okamoto<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Coming to the plate with the bases loaded, Okamoto lined a double off the left-field wall, plating two runs. It marked the first Blue Jays extra-base hit of the season and snapped a 1-for-20 stretch with the bases juiced.<\/p>\n

The seven straight hits before recording an out also tied Toronto’s franchise record to begin a game.<\/p>\n

While Okamoto’s double put the Blue Jays up five, the lineup kept working against Nelson.<\/p>\n

After the Diamondbacks righty finally struck out nine-hole hitter Brandon Valenzuela for his first out, Nathan Lukes<\/a> followed Okamoto’s big swing with a bases-loaded double of his own. It was Lukes’s second knock of the inning and marked the end of Nelson’s afternoon.<\/p>\n

Arizona turned to reliever Andrew Hoffmann, who was able to stop the bleeding by getting Ernie Clement to pop out and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to strike out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coming into Sunday’s contest against the Arizona Diamondbacks amidst a major slump, the Blue Jays’ bats woke up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[5,377,2554,4,282,70,2553],"class_list":{"0":"post-679750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-blue-jays","10":"tag-bluejays","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-toronto","13":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","14":"tag-torontobluejays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116437128540714650","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679750","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=679750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}