Donaldson’s 3 home runs help Blue Jays beat Twins

Perdomo the main man behind San Diego Padres’ victory over the Miami Marlins

Josh Donaldson hit three home runs and Troy Tulowitzki added another one as the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Minnesota Twins 9-6 on Sunday afternoon to complete a sweep of the three-game series.

Donaldson’s second homer of the game was a two-run shot that put Toronto into a 6-5 lead during the four-run seventh. His home run in the eighth gave him the first threehomer game of his career.

It was the 10th loss in a row for the Twins, while the Blue Jays remain at the top of the American League East.

Toronto reliever Scott Feldman pitched two-thirds of an inning to pick up the win and Twins reliever Pat Light allowed three hits and three runs over 1 1/3 innings to take the loss.

Luis Perdomo induced six double-play balls and Luis Sardinas had the go-ahead RBI

Results from the MLB games on Sunday (home team in CAPS)

Baltimore 5 TORONTO 9 LA Angels 5 Philadelphia 5 San Diego 3 Colorado 5 Pittsburgh 3 WHITE SOX 4 Tampa Bay 10 Oakland 7 TEXAS 2 S. FRANCISCO 13 LA DODGERS 1 ARIZONA 11 Kansas City 10 NY YANKEES Minnesota DETROIT NY METS MIAMI WASHINGTON MILWAUKEE Seattle HOUSTON ST. LOUIS Cleveland Atlanta Chicago Cubs Cincinnati BOSTON 0 6 0 1 1 3 1 1 4 4 1 4 0 2 4 double as San Diego defeated Miami 3-1 at Marlins Park.

The six double plays are a Marlins record. It is also a record for the Padres in a nine-inning game. It was the first complete game in the career of Perdomo, who threw 99 pitches. Perdomo, a 23-year-old rookie who had never pitched above Class A before this season, has the best ground-ball rate (59 per cent) of any NL pitcher with at least 100 innings this year.