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Series Recap: Blue Jays sweep Angels to sweep the seven-game home stand
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Ryley Delaney
Jul 7, 2025, 14:00 EDTUpdated: Jul 7, 2025, 15:20 EDT
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The Toronto Blue Jays are in the midst of an eight-game winning streak.
After taking the final game of the series against the Boston Red Sox, the Blue Jays were able to sweep the New York Yankees in a four-game series. This was the first four-game sweep of the Yankees in Toronto. They followed that with a three-game sweep of the Los Angeles Angels.
Friday’s game didn’t feature a hit until the bottom of the fourth and didn’t feature a run until the bottom of the sixth. It was the Blue Jays who got on the board first, as Andrés Giménez and Bo Bichette each hit an RBI single, followed by an error on a fielder’s choice to make it 3-0. The Angels answered right back in the top of the seventh, as Jo Adell hit a three-run blast. With runners on first and second and no outs in the bottom of the 10th, Ernie Clement laid down a sacrifice bunt, and a throwing error walked it off.
Saturday was another 4-3 walkoff. The Angels scored in the top of the first, and the Blue Jays scored their own run in the bottom of the first. In the top of the third, the Angels scored a run, and the Blue Jays scored two thanks to George Springer’s 16th home run of the season. The Angels tied it in the top of the seventh, but the Jays were able to walk it off as Addison Barger hit a bases-loaded single in the bottom of the 11th.
It was another one-run game on Sunday. In the top of the first, the Angels took a one-run lead, but Bo Bichette hit a home run in the bottom of the second, followed by a Joey Loperfido base hit, giving the Jays the lead. The Angels tied it in the top of the fifth, but Davis Schneider hit a 3-0 pitch to left field to give Toronto the 3-2 lead, which they never relinquished.
Unlike the Yankees series, the bats were cold in the weekend series against the Angels. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. slashed .444/.500/.556 with no home runs in 10 plate appearances for an 186 wRC+. The only other regulars with a wRC+ above 100 in this series were Springer (117), Bichette (107), and Lukes (102), that’s with Springer and Bichette each hitting a home run.
Myles Straw had five plate appearances, finishing with an 181 wRC+. Giménez and Joey Loperfido each finished with three plate appearances, hitting a single for an 88 wRC+. Alejandro Kirk, Ernie Clement, and Addison Barger finished with a wRC+ below 60. Schenider didn’t have a great series (-49 wRC+), but his single on Sunday was the game-winning RBI.
The weekend series was one of the best for starting pitching in a while. Eric Lauer went 6+ innings pitched on Friday, leaving with two runners on in the top of the seventh, who were both cashed in to give him a 3 ERA. Max Scherzer pitched just four innings, giving up two earned runs for a 4.50 ERA, while Kevin Gausman went five and two-thirds innings with two earned runs allowed for a 3.18 ERA.
Their relievers also had a great weekend series. Sandlin gave up a three-run home run with two of Lauer’s baserunners on the bases, giving him a 4.50 ERA in the two innings he pitched. Lazaro Estrada pitched his first four innings, striking out four and giving up an earned run. Chad Green, Jeff Hoffman, Ryan Burr, Brendon Little, Braydon Fisher, and Yariel Rodríguez all pitched scoreless outings.
The Jays have a chance to keep the good times rolling, as they head to Chicago to face the White Sox for a three-game series. If they are to sweep them, the Jays would match their longest win streak in a decade, as the 2015 season featured an 11-game win streak.
Ryley Delaney is a Nation Network writer for Blue Jays Nation, Oilersnation, and FlamesNation. She can be followed on Twitter @Ryley__Delaney.

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