Blue Jays rally late to best Angels, extend win streak to 4 games | CBC Sports

Matt Chapman hit a go-ahead two-run double during Toronto’s three-run eighth inning and the Blue Jays rallied for the second straight night to defeat the Los Angeles Angels 6-5 on Saturday in Anaheim, Calif.

Mike Trout homered and Matt Duffy tied a career high with four hits for the Angels, who have dropped four straight.

Los Angeles trailed 6-4 going into the bottom of the ninth, but Brandon Marsh’s RBI single with two outs scored Duffy to get them within a run. AL saves leader Jordan Romano walked pinch-hitter Taylor Ward to load the bases.

Adam Cimber (5-2) got the win and Kyle Barraclough (0-1) was charged with the loss.

Toronto, currently on a four-game win streak, goes for its first four-game road sweep against the Angels on Sunday to wrap up a six-game trip.

Trailing 4-3, Toronto had runners on first and second with one out in the eighth when Chapman lined a ball into right field that Juan Lagares tried to make a play on. But the ball went off his glove as Vladimir Guerrero Jr. scored the tying run and Teoscar Hernandez the go-ahead run.

After getting the ball and bobbling it, Lagares made the relay throw, but second baseman Luis Rengifo booted it, allowing Chapman to get to third base. Rengifo was charged with an error.

Lagares has been playing in right because Taylor Ward has been dealing with a neck stinger for a week after making a catch and hitting the outfield wall.

The Blue Jays added another run in the eighth when Chapman scored on Raimel Tapia’s double.

Duffy, who got the start at third base after Anthony Rendon went on the injured list, had the fifth four-hit game of his career and his first since 2019 when he was with Tampa Bay.

Duffy’s RBI double to left-centre off Yusei Kikuchi tied it at 1 in the fifth inning before Trout scored on Jared Walsh’s grounder.

Toronto scored for the third time in the last four games in the first inning when Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s ground-rule double down the left-field line drove in Bo Bichette.

The Blue Jays got four hits the first two innings before Lorenzen allowed only one baserunner the next four innings. Toronto broke through for a pair in the seventh on Cavan Biggio’s RBI ground-rule double and pinch-hitter Alejandro Kirk’s base hit to drive in Biggio.