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The next 11 Jays hitters were retired before Alejandro Kirk led off the fifth with a walk and Anthony Santander聽鈥� batting sixth, his lowest spot in the batting order with the Jays聽鈥� belted a two-run homer to right field.

Bassitt wound up allowing four hits and walking one over six shutout innings, and the bullpen completed the Jays’ first shutout victory of the season.

Fastballs

Join the club

Daulton Varsho has some company atop the Jays’ home run leaderboard. He took the club lead with his sixth home run Friday but Guerrero joined him at the top with his first-inning blast. Sensing they’d be better off as a trio, Santander joined them with his fifth-inning homer, just his second hit in 19 at-bats.

Easy as 1-2-3

The Jays’ bullpen was nearly perfect behind Bassitt. Brendon Little gave up a single to the first batter he faced in the seventh inning, but then got Jake Cronenworth to ground into a double play and struck out pinch-hitter Brandon Lockridge to end the inning. Yariel Rodriguez followed with a perfect eighth and Jeff Hoffman needed only nine pitches to retire the Padres in order in the ninth, notching his 10th save of the season.

The most out of their hits

The Jays only had one hit other than the two homers, an Addison Barger single in the fifth that followed Santander’s big fly.

Barger stole second and was bunted to third by Ernie Clement, but got doubled up when he was caught too far off the bag as Nathan Lukes lined out, unable to get back in time even though San Diego first baseman Luis Arraez double-clutched on the throw.

Mailbag

Colautti found me @wilnerness on Bluesky to rave about Daulton Varsho. ”It is wild to think about how much more confidence Varsho’s name in the three-hole inspires confidence compared to his previous time with the team. Did you expect the type of change we’ve seen from him?”

Well, remember that you’re talking to someone who suggested that Varsho might have a 40-homer season in him back when the renovations to the Rogers Centre were first revealed, so I can feel confident in saying that, yes, I expected him to hit for a lot of power.

Varsho hit 27 home runs in his first full season with Arizona in 2022, in a division that has a lot of tough ballparks for hitters. The power potential has been there, he just hadn’t been able to make it happen in Toronto.

I will say, though, that I expected more from Varsho’s overall game at the plate. His 0-for-3 Tuesday has him hitting just .218 with a .250 on-base percentage. As nice as the six home runs in 16 games played have been, those other numbers have to get better.