Overview

• Rookie Mickey Gasper led off the ninth with his first major-league home run to tie the game.
• Matt Wallner hit a go-ahead homer later in the inning, his 20th of the season.
• Closer Jeff Hoffman surrendered both ninth-inning homers for his seventh blown save in 35 chances.
• George Springer went 4-for-5 with two solo homers, his 23rd and 24th, after Toronto built a 4-0 lead.
• The loss cut Toronto’s division lead to four games, and Minnesota snapped a three-game skid while extending its Rogers Centre homer streak to 22 straight games.