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 Jose Bautista added a solo shot and Dioner Navarro hit a pair of
run-scoring doubles for the Blue Jays, who improved to 2-2 at the
Rogers Centre. Buehrle (2-0) scattered eight hits while walking one
and striking out three, and Sergio Santos struck out the side in the
ninth to secure his third save.
Brett Oberholtzer (0-2) was charged with three runs on three hits
over 5 1/3 frames, walking three and striking out three. Jose Altuve
went 3-for-5 with an RBI while Chris Carter added a pair of hits and
scored a run.
Bautista kicked things off in the first inning with a towering blast
over the wall in left-center field for his fourth home run of the
season. The Astros drew even in the second on a Matt Dominguez
sacrifice fly to center, but Toronto restored its one-run lead in
the fourth after Edwin Encarnacion drew a one-out walk and came
around to score on Navarro's short-hop double that bounced over the
head of left fielder Robbie Grossman.
Navarro extended the lead in the sixth with a double to the wall in
left-center that scored Encarnacion from first. Houston responded in
the seventh on an Altuve groundout that plated Jonathan Villar, but
Cabrera made it 5-2 in the bottom half with a shot to left that
cashed in Jonathan Diaz ahead of him.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Cabrera's four home runs surpasses his tally for the
entire 2013 season, spanning 344 at-bats. He has also hit safely in
every game this season. ... Blue Jays manager John Gibbons took the
odd step of hitting DH Adam Lind second against the left-handed
Oberholtzer. Lind, who came into the game batting .220 for his
career against lefties, went 0-for-3 with a strikeout versus
Oberholtzer. ... The teams combined to hit 0-for-20 with runners in
scoring position.
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