Correa, 60-win Astros pour it on

TORONTO — Carlos Correa, Jose Altuve and the Astros put on quite an All-Star performance.

Correa homered twice and drove in a career-high five runs, Altuve got three more hits and the Astros romped into the break by battering the Blue Jays 19-1 on Sunday.

The runaway leaders in the AL West became just the fifth team in the last 40 years to reach 60 wins before the All-Star Game, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. They joined the 1998 Yankees, 2001 Mariners, 2003 Braves and this year’s Dodgers.

At 60-29, the Astros head into the break with a 161⁄2-game lead over the Rangers and the Angels.

“We have a really good team,” Correa said. “From 1 through 9, we can do damage, and today we showed what we’re capable of.”

Even in the midst of a 14-5 run the last three weeks, manager A.J. Hinch said the break comes at a good time.

“It’s nice to say we should keep this going, but we need to rest up in the next four days,” he said.

A day after his career-high 15-game hitting streak ended, Correa had four hits. The All-Star had his fifth career multihomer game and second this season.

Fellow All-Star Altuve, Gurriel and Evan Gattis homered for the Astros.

Altuve had three hits for the fifth consecutive game. He became the ninth major-leaguer to do so in more than a century and the first since George Brett’s record-tying six-game streak for the Royals in 1976.

Gattis drove in four runs with two hits as the Astros scored at least 19 for the fourth time ever.

Ezequiel Carrera spoiled the shutout bid by homering with two out in the ninth. That denied the Astros the largest shutout win in team history, which was 15-0 at Montreal on April 26, 1998. Yuli also