Blue Jays tie season-high with five homers in 13-9 win over Reds

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• Blue Jays tie season-high with five homers in 13-9 win over Reds</p>

<p>JEFF WALLNERSeptember 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM</p>

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<p>1 / 5Blue Jays Reds BaseballToronto Blue Jays' George Springer, right, celebrates with third base coach Carlos Febles as he rounds the bases after hitting a solo home run during the third inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</p>

<p>CINCINNATI (AP) — George Springer had one of Toronto's five home runs as the Blue Jays rallied from five runs down to beat the Cincinnati Reds 13-9 on Wednesday night.</p>

<p>Daulton Varsho and Alejandro Kirk hit consecutive homers in the fourth inning, and Addison Barger and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. went back to back in the fifth. The Blue Jays tied a season-high with five home runs.</p>

<p>AL-East leading Toronto went deep 11 times and scored 29 runs in the three-game series, setting up a big weekend matchup with the second-place Yankees beginning Friday.</p>

<p>Cincinnati remained five games behind of the New York Mets for the third NL wild-card spot. The Reds and Mets begin a three-game series on Friday.</p>

<p>The Reds scored five times in the second inning against Blue Jays starter Shane Bieber. Jose Trevino had a two-run single, Matt McLain an RBI single, and Noelvi Marte added a two-run double.</p>

<p>Bieber (2-1) did not allow another run or a hit over his final four innings and the Blue Jays took advantage of Zack Littell's tendency to allow home runs.</p>

<p>Springer's third homer in two games got the Blue Jays on the scoreboard in the third inning and Barger's two-run shot in fifth tied the score 5-5. Guerrero then put Toronto ahead against reliever Nick Martinez (10-11).</p>

<p>Littell allowed five runs and seven hits — four homers — in 4 1/3 innings. He has given up a major-league leading 34 home runs in 28 starts this season for the Rays and Reds.</p>

<p>Key moment</p>

<p>The Blue Jays were trailing 5-0 with two outs and nobody on in the third when George Springer homered to start the comeback. It was Springer's 27th of the season.</p>

<p>Key stat</p>

<p>The Blue Jays hit back to back homers twice in a game for the seventh time in franchise history, first since June 10, 2015, vs. Miami.</p>

<p>Up next</p>

<p>Reds LHP Andrew Abbott (8-5, 2.65) will start Friday's series opener against the Mets.</p>

<p>Blue Jays RHP Kevin Gausman (8-10, 3.75) will start Friday's series opener against the Yankees.</p>

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<p>AP MLB: https://www.apnews.com/hub/MLB</p>

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