Rangers hammer Jays 11-2
Posted August 19, 2012 4:11 pm.
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Michael Young homered and drove in five runs and Matt Harrison allowed two hits in eight innings as the Texas Rangers defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 11-2 on Sunday.
The injury depleted Blue Jays finished their 10-game home stand with a 3-7 record after losing the rubber match of the three-game series with the American League West leaders.
The Rangers outhit the Blue Jays 19-2 on Sunday and won the final two games of the series.
Toronto starter Henderson Alvarez (7-11) allowed 12 hits, three walks and eight runs in 4 1/3 innings. He left in the five-run fifth that included a three-run homer by Young.
David Murphy hit his 11th homer of the season against Chad Jenkins in the ninth.
Texas lefty Harrison (14-7) held the Blue Jays to two runs with Mike McCoy driving in both, one with a groundout and the other with a home run.
The Blue Jays (56-65) scored first in the second when McCoy’s infield bouncer scored Yunel Escobar from third base.
But the Rangers (70-50) struck back in the third. Murphy led off with a double and slid home safely on a single by Geovany Soto, who took second on the throw home.
Mitch Moreland singled to make it 2-1 and he took third when Ian Kinsler ended a 0-for-21 drought with a double. But Alvarez avoided further damage in the inning by striking out Elvis Andrus and Josh Hamilton and retiring Adrian Beltre on a grounder to third.
The Rangers scored once in the fourth when Young singled and scored on a double by Murphy, who was thrown out trying for third.
Texas broke the game open in the fifth.
Andrus, who made a superb play at shortstop on Edwin Encarnacion’s grounder into the hole in the fourth, singled with one out in the fifth and scored on a double by Hamilton.
Beltre walked and Nelson Cruz singled to score Hamilton. Young followed with his fourth homer of the season and his first homer since May 7 at Baltimore, a span of 88 games.
McCoy hit his first homer of the season in the fifth but the Rangers came back with two more in the sixth on a double by Young.
