Ridgway Record

Berríos ties career-high with 13 Ks, Jays beat Phillies 4-3

- By Ian Harrison Associated Press

TORONTO (AP) — José Berríos matched his career high by striking out 13 over six innings, Lourdes Gurriel Jr. had four hits, including a go-ahead double in the sixth inning, and the Toronto Blue Jays snapped a four-game losing streak by beating the Philadelph­ia Phillies 4-3 Tuesday night.

Berríos (7-4) allowed three runs and six hits, improving to 5-0 in eight home starts. He struck out five in a row at one stretch, and fanned the final two batters he faced. He also struck out 13 in a seven-inning start against Minnesota, his former team, on June 4.

Tim Mayza worked the seventh, Yimi Garcia pitched the eighth, and Jordan Romano finished for his 19th save in 22 chances as Toronto opened a sixgame homestand with a win after losing six of seven on a West Coast trip to Oakland and Seattle.

Gurriel singled in the second, doubled and scored in the third, doubled home the go-ahead run in the sixth, and singled in the eighth.

Toronto is 20-14 in one-run games.

Bryson Stott hit a solo home run for the Phillies, who have lost three straight. Jeurys Familia (1-1) allowed one run and four hits in 1 1/3 innings.

Toronto's Teoscar Hernández hit a tworun double off Phillies opener Andrew Bellatti in the first, but was thrown out trying to stretch his hit into a triple.

Odúbel Herrera halved the deficit with an RBI single in the second and Stott tied it with a two-out drive in the fourth, his fifth, ending Berríos' streak of five straight strikeouts.

Gurriel and Matt Chapman restored Toronto's lead with back-to-back doubles off Mark Appel in the fourth before Nick Castellano­s tied it at 3 with a two-out RBI single in the fifth.

Gurriel gave the Blue Jays the lead for good with a groundrule double to left off Familia in the sixth, scoring Alejandro Kirk.

The Phillies were without J.T. Realmuto, Alec Bohm, Aaron Nola and Kyle Gibson for the opener of the two-game series due to Canadian restrictio­ns on unvaccinat­ed travelers. Nola started on the mound for Philadelph­ia's game Monday night at St. Louis and was not scheduled to pitch against the Blue Jays. Bohm came out of Monday's game with a dislocated left ring finger.

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