Former Blue Jay Riley Adams leads Washington to blowout win over Toronto
Nationals snap 7-game losing streak with the victory
Riley Adams homered and drove in three in his first game against his former team, Erick Fedde won for the first time in more than two months and the Washington Nationals snapped a season-high, seven-game losing streak Tuesday night with a 12-6 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays.
Adams, acquired last month from Toronto for reliever Brad Hand, had a career-high three hits. He delivered a two-run double in the eighth to provide some insurance after the Blue Jays trimmed a seven-run deficit to 8-6. The catcher also homered in the fourth.
"It was fun to see those guys and it's definitely fun competing against them and trying to do my best out there," said Adams, who played in 12 games this year with Toronto. "When I saw I was catching Game 1 [of the series] tonight, there was definitely a little bit more excitement given the circumstances."
Teoscar Hernandez homered for the third consecutive game for Toronto, which has lost four of five since reaching a season-high 11 games over .500 on Wednesday.
💣 <a href="https://twitter.com/TeoscarH?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TeoscarH</a> has homered in THREE straight games. <br><br>He's hitting .433 in August 🤯 <a href="https://t.co/qbnIk3QBDC">pic.twitter.com/qbnIk3QBDC</a>
—@BlueJays"We just didn't pitch good today," Toronto manager Charlie Montoyo said. "We didn't pitch good, and when you don't pitch good, you lose."
Fedde (5-8) was 0-4 with a 6.32 ERA in his previous 10 starts, and he needed 94 pitches to get through five innings against the Blue Jays. He allowed three runs on five hits — including Hernandez's two-run shot in the fifth — while striking out four.
"What I loved about tonight is that he battled back," Washington manager Dave Martinez said. "First inning, he threw a lot of pitches. He came back out and threw a lot of pitches. But he kept battling and kept us in the ballgame."
Two batters after Alcides Escobar's two-run double, Hernandez's bases-loaded single sent home two more runs. Manoah's errant pickoff attempt allowed Josh Bell to score, and Hernandez came around on Carter Kieboom's sacrifice fly to make it 7-1.
It was Washington's first six-run inning since doing so twice in an 18-1 rout of Miami on July 19. The Nationals' 12 runs were also their most since then.
Manoah allowed seven runs in three innings, the shortest of his 12 starts with the Blue Jays.
