Twins beat Blue Jays with 5-homer outburst

Kyle Garlick and Jose Miranda each hit two home runs, Byron Buxton also went deep and the visiting Twins beat the Blue Jays 9-3 Friday night, snapping Toronto’s winning streak at eight.

Jharel Cotton (1-1) and four fellow relievers combined for six no-hit innings after taking over for Chi Chi Gonzalez as the Twins ended a threegame slump. Minnesota had lost seven of its previous 10.

George Springer and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. both hit solo homers but the Blue Jays lost for the fourth time in 16 games.

Garlick hit a two-run homer in the first inning and added a solo drive in the third, both off Yusei Kikuchi (2-2). Garlick has six home runs this season and two career multihomer games.

Miranda hit a solo homer off Kikuchi in the second and had a tworun drive off Trevor Richards in the sixth. Miranda has four homers this year after the first multihomer game of his career.

Buxton hit a two-run homer off Jeremy Beasley in the ninth, his 12th.

Down 2-0 after Garlick’s first homer, the Blue Jays answered quickly. Back in the lineup after sitting out the past two games with a non-COVID illness, Springer hit his 49th career leadoff homer. Bo Bichette followed with a double and scored the tying run on Teoscar Hernandez’s single.

Miranda’s first home run and Garclik’s second made it 4-2, but Guerrero cut it to 4-3 with a solo homer in the bottom half, his 11th. Guerrero’s 421foot homer had an exit velocity of 114.4 mph.

Yankees 13, Tigers 0:

Gerrit Cole pitched perfectly into the seventh inning a night after teammate Jameson Taillon lost his bid in the eighth, Aaron Judge homered and had four hits on his bobblehead night, and New York thumped visiting Detroit.

Phillies 10, Angels 0:

Bryce Harper and Kyle Schwarber each homered twice and host Philadelphia sent Los Angeles to its ninth straight defeat.

Rays 6, White Sox 3:

Ji-Man Choi drove in three runs and host Tampa Bay beat Chicago.

Guardians 6, Orioles 3:

Shane Bieber held host Baltimore without a hit until the sixth inning and Owen Miller drove in four runs in his first two plate appearances as

Cleveland rolled.

Cleveland hasn’t had a no-hitter since Len Barker threw a perfect game against Toronto on May 15, 1981.

Cardinals 14, Cubs 5:

Paul Goldschmidt homered to extend his hitting streak to 25 games, Corey Dickerson went deep twice and St. Louis routed host Chicago.

D’backs 8, Pirates 6:

Rookie Alek Thomas hit two of Arizona’s five home runs and the Diamondbacks opened a long road trip by beating Pittsburgh.

Nationals 8, Reds 5:

Lane Thomas had a three-homer game for the first time in his career, and Nelson Cruz and Juan Soto also went deep, leading visiting Washington over Cincinnati.

Girardi fired:

With the Phillies buried deep in the NL East standings, Joe Girardi became the first major-league manager to lose his job this season after failing to turn a team with a record payroll into a playoff contender.

Bench coach Rob Thomson was named interim manager.

The Phillies were 22-29 and 12 games behind the first-place Mets as of Friday morning.