Julks hits 1st slam, surging Astros homer 4 occasions in 11-4 win over Blue Jays

TORONTO — Corey Julks hit his first profession grand slam, Brandon Bielak matched his profession excessive by pitching 6 2/3 innings and the Houston Astros used a season-high 19 hits to beat the Toronto Blue Jays 11-4 Monday evening.

Yordan Alvarez and Kyle Tucker hit solo homers and Jake Meyers added a two-run blast because the Astros received for the eighth time in 11 video games. Houston has received 19 of 25.

Meyers and Astros catcher Yainer Diaz every had 4 hits.

Bielak (3-2) allowed three runs and 10 hits in profitable for the third time in 4 begins. He walked one and struck out two.

“Bielak took us deep into the game,” Astros supervisor Dusty Baker stated. “We were trying to get him into the seventh so we didn’t have to go through too much of our bullpen.”

Alejandro Kirk and Daulton Varsho hit solo house runs as Toronto had its four-game profitable streak halted.

PHOTOS: Julks hits 1st slam, surging Astros homer 4 occasions in 11-4 win over Blue Jays

After RBI singles by Alvarez and Tucker, Julks capped a six-run first inning together with his first-pitch drive off struggling Blue Jays right-hander Alek Manoah. The homer was Julks’ fifth.

“Knowing that the bases were loaded, he didn’t have anywhere to put me so I was trying to be aggressive,” Julks stated.

Manoah (1-7) didn’t get out of the primary in his seventh straight shedding choice, retiring simply one of many 9 batters he confronted.

“That was really fun to jump on them early,” stated Meyers, whose hit chased Manoah.

Some within the crowd of 23,982 booed Manoah, an All-Star and AL Cy Young Award finalist final season.

“A lot of things I’ve been working on, I didn’t really have a chance to go out there and use that,” Manoah stated. “Just got to show up tomorrow and get ready for the next one.”

Blue Jays supervisor John Schneider was requested whether or not he anticipated Manoah to make his subsequent scheduled begin.

“I think so,” Schneider stated. “When I say that everything is on the table, yeah, everything is. We’re just trying to help him get back to the caliber of pitcher that he was.”

Manoah allowed six runs on seven hits and walked one. His ERA rose from 5.46 to six.36.

“Manoah wasn’t himself,” Baker stated. “That helped us a lot.”

Facing left-hander Tim Mayza, Julks batted with the bases loaded once more within the eighth, however grounded into an inning-ending fielder’s alternative.

Alvarez and Tucker linked off Trevor Richards within the fourth. Alvarez’s homer, his sixteenth, was a 452-foot drive into the middle area get together deck. Tucker went deep for the eighth time.

Meyers joined Julks and Tucker and have become the third Astros outfielder to homer, hitting a two-run blast off Anthony Bass within the fifth, his sixth of the season.

Bielak left after Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s double made it 10-3. Seth Martinez got here on and struck out pinch-hitter Nathan Lukes to strand two runners.

Kirk homered within the second, his third of the season. Varsho linked off Martinez within the eighth, his tenth.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Astros: 2B Jose Altuve missed his third straight recreation due to a sore proper indirect, which he tweaked on an ungainly swing Friday. Baker stated Altuve is feeling higher and will return Tuesday or Wednesday.

Blue Jays: RHP Zach Pop (proper hamstring) returned to Toronto to be reevaluated after experiencing discomfort in a current rehab outing with Class A Dunedin.

ROSTER MOVES

The Astros chosen INF Grae Kessinger from Triple-A Sugar Land. Houston optioned C César Salazar to Triple-A and transferred RHP Luis Garcia to the 60-day injured listing. Kessinger performed all 4 infield positions at Triple-A this season, hitting .284 with six house runs and 32 RBI in 52 video games.

WHOOSH AND PUSH

Houston’s second hit of the sport was Jeremy Peña’s bunt down the third final analysis. Manoah acquired down on his palms and knees and tried to blow the ball foul, main plate umpire Scott Barry to right away rule it truthful.

BASS BOOED

Blue Jays RHP Anthony Bass was booed when he got here on within the fifth. Bass apologized final week for expressing help on social media for anti-LGBTQ+ boycotts of Target and Bud Light.

UP NEXT

Blue Jays RHP KevIn Gausman (4-3, 2.76) faces Astros RHP Hunter Brown (5-2, 3.61) Tuesday evening. Gausman allowed a season-high eight runs in an April 17 loss at Houston.