Gonzalez Hits Two Homers As Blue Jays Pummel Oakland 10-2 To Close Out April
Posted April 30, 2010 10:53 pm.
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Alex Gonzalez hit two home runs for four RBIs and Vernon Wells hit his 200th career home run as the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Oakland Athletics 10-2 on Friday to end April with a 12-12 record.
Brandon Morrow (2-2) struck out nine and allowed two runs on seven hits and two walks over six innings before a crowd of 12,722 at the Rogers Centre as the Blue Jays won their second in a row after ending a five-game losing streak on Thursday. The Athletics also finished April 12-12.
Trevor Cahill (0-1), who was called up from Triple-A for the start, took the loss, allowing eight runs (six earned) on seven hits – including three home runs – over five innings.
After Kevin Kouzmanoff singled to score Cliff Pennington in the first inning, Gonzalez hit a three-run home run in the second for a 3-1 Toronto lead. The shortstop also led off the sixth with his seventh homer of the season.
Gonzalez’s seven home runs set a club record for home runs by a shortstop in April. Marco Scutaro, now with the Boston Red Sox, hit five last April.
John Buck, who became the first major-league catcher in six years to have a three-homer game on Thursday, singled in two unearned runs in the bottom of the fourth, scoring Overbay and Jose Bautista.
Wells hit his eighth homer of the season after Adam Lind singled in the fifth to put the Blue Jays ahead 7-2. The two RBIs gave Wells 741 for his career, passing George Bell to move into second on the Blue Jays’ all-time list. Carlos Delgado leads with 1,058.
Aaron Hill doubled in two runs in the sixth against Chad Gaudin after Gonzalez’s leadoff homer chased Cahill.
