AROUND THE HORN

Blue Jays:

Teoscar Hernández hit his 100th career home run, José Berríos took a no-hitter into the fifth inning and the Blue Jays survived a late scare to beat the Athletics 10-8 Saturday, Toronto’s sixth win in seven games. Breyvic Valera hit a two-run homer while Danny Jansen and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. each had solo shots as the Blue Jays boosted their home run total to 204. San Francisco had 201 home runs entering play Saturday. Oakland pitchers allowed at least three home runs for the fifth straight game, extending a dubious franchise record. Mark Canha hit a three-run homer for Oakland and finished with four RBIs. Sean Murphy added a two-run blast and Matt Chapman hit a solo shot. The A’s scored five runs in the ninth but still lost for the third time in four games.

Rockies: Rockies lefthander Austin Gomber will miss the rest of the season after team doctors discovered a stress fracture in his lower back. Gomber, acquired by Colorado in the offseason as part of the trade that sent star third baseman Nolan Arenado to St. Louis, was placed on the 60-day injured list with a condition know as pars defect. It refers to stress fractures of small bones in the lower spine, typically caused by overuse. The 27-year-old Gomber is expected to recover with rest. “It’s going to keep him out for the rest of the season,” manager Bud Black said. “He’ll be fine in a month or two. It won’t impact his offseason. It won’t impact next season.” Gomber, who was 9-9 with a 4.53 ERA, had been dealing with back pain for the last couple of weeks, Black said. Gomber didn’t make it through the fifth inning in either of his last two starts, both losses. Team doctors conducted further tests and discovered the stress reaction condition. withstood a video review, handing the Pirates their fifth straight loss.

Mets: Francisco Lindor hit a two-run homer in the ninth inning and the Mets, after blowing a nine-run lead, extended their winning streak to six by beating the Nationals 11-9 Saturday to open a split doubleheader on Saturday. Ahead 9-0 in the fourth, the Mets saw the Nationals force extra innings on Andrew Stevenson’s two-out, two-run homer in the seventh that made it 9-all. Mets reliever Trevor May (7-2) escaped a basesloaded, one-out jam in the eighth. Lindor then led off the ninth with his 12th homer, connecting against closer Kyle Finnegan (4-6) to also score the automatic runner from second. Heath Hembree pitched the ninth to record his ninth save. Washington lost its seventh in a row. The Mets have never blown a lead of more than eight runs in a loss, and barely avoided doing it this time. “There’s not a comfortable lead at the big league level,” Mets manager Luis Rojas said. “There’s not. We’ve got to be aware of that.”

Rays: Yandy Díaz hit one of Tampa Bay’s franchise record-tying six homers and drove in four runs, Wander Franco extended his on-base streak to 34 games and the AL East-leading Rays beat the Twins 11-4 on Saturday. Díaz had an RBI single in the first inning and a three-run homer off Andrew Albers during a five-run second as the Rays went up 7-0. Franco broke a tie with Hall of Famers Mel Ott and Arky Vaughan for the third-longest streak by a player under 21 on his first-inning RBI single. The 20-year-old Franco played after clearing MLB concussion protocols