Bichette's longball propels surging Blue Jays past Angels for season-high 8th straight win

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Bo Bichette homered and scored the deciding tally arsenic the Toronto Blue Jays continued their winning ways with a 3-2 triumph against the Los Angeles Angels connected Sunday.

American League East-leading Toronto completes bid expanse implicit Los Angeles

Tim Wharnsby · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jul 06, 2025 4:57 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

Bo Bichette homered and scored the deciding tally arsenic the Toronto Blue Jays continued their winning ways with a 3-2 triumph against the Los Angeles Angels connected Sunday.

Davis Schneider knocked successful Bichette successful the sixth inning with a azygous down the left-field enactment for a bid expanse and Toronto's (52-38) season-high eighth triumph successful a enactment earlier 40,114 astatine Rogers Centre.

Mike Trout smacked a solo changeable for his 14th homer of the twelvemonth for the Angels (43-46) with 2 retired successful the opening inning.

The American League East-leading Blue Jays drew adjacent with Bichette's leadoff agelong shot successful the 4th inning. His 12th made up for his mistake successful the apical of the inning that loaded the bases for the Angels.

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Toronto went up aboriginal successful the 4th connected a two-out azygous from Joey Loperfido, who made his play debut.

Blue Jays starter Kevin Gausman struck retired 9 successful his 107 pitches successful 5 2/3 innings, giving up 2 runs connected 7 hits and 3 walks.

Tyler Anderson (2-6) yielded 3 runs connected 8 hits with 2 walks and 2 strikeouts successful five-plus innings.

Reliever Ryan Burr (1-0) notched the triumph successful his archetypal outing of the play aft dealing a right-shoulder injury. Jeff Hoffman picked up his 22nd save.

Kirk named to 2nd all-star game

Alejandro Kirk volition beryllium joining Toronto Blue Jays teammate Vladimir Guerrero Jr. astatine Major League Baseball's all-star game.

Kirk was named to his 2nd all-star squad connected Sunday.

This year's all-star crippled volition beryllium held connected July 15 astatine Truist Park successful Atlanta.

The Blue Jays catcher is batting .301 with 7 homers and 41 runs batted successful this season.

Kirk's mean is 11th successful Major League Baseball and 2nd among catchers down Will Smith (.332) of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

His archetypal all-star quality was successful 2022 erstwhile helium finished the play with a .285 mean and 14 homers.

The 26-year-old Kirk has a .270 vocation mean with a full of 43 homers implicit six seasons, each with Toronto.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Tim has covered the hockey scenery and different sports successful Canada for 3 decades for The Canadian Press, CBC Sports, the Globe and Mail and Toronto Sun. He has been to 3 Winter Olympics, 11 Stanley Cups, a satellite title arsenic good arsenic 17 satellite inferior championships, 13 Memorial Cups and 13 University Cups. The autochthonal of Waterloo, Ont., ever has his oculus retired for an underdog story.

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