OAKLAND, Calif. _ Ryon Healy picked up where he left off against the Washington Nationals Monday night, providing all the offense that Sean Manaea needed to record his fourth-consecutive win.
After tying a franchise record with four extra base hits Saturday, Healy launched two more home runs against the Toronto Blue Jays, driving in all of the Oakland A's (25-32) runs in a 5-3 win at the Oakland Coliseum.
With Khris Davis and Yonder Alonso aboard in the second, Healy blasted a change-up from Blue Jays starter J.A. Happ (0-4) over the left field wall on a rope. He went yard again in the fourth, crushing a 94 mph fastball to the deepest part of the ballpark in center after Davis reached base with his second walk of the game.
Healy went 6 for 12 with four RBI against the Nationals over the weekend, smacking two home runs and two doubles in the A's 10-4 win Saturday afternoon. With two more homers Monday night, the 25-year-old sophomore, who went 2 for 3 with a career-high five RBI, now has 26 home runs in just 128 Major League games.
Healy's offensive outburst gave Manaea (5-3) all the support he needed to earn his fourth win in four starts even though he didn't have his best stuff, giving up four hits and walking three while throwing a career-high 111 pitches in his six innings of work.
Manaea allowed the leadoff man to reach base in four of six innings and it cost him in the first and fifth.
The Blue Jays opened the scoring in the first after Kevin Pillar walked and Josh Donaldson brought him in with a double to left. Pillar drove in the Jays second run in the fifth, scoring Ezequiel Carrera from first with a line drive down the left field line.
But third baseman Trevor Plouffe picked up Manaea later in the inning, throwing out Pillar at the plate when he tried to score from third on a Jose Bautista ground ball.
Manaea left the game with seven strikeouts; he's posted a 1.80 ERA during his four-game winning streak.
After surrendering eight earned runs in two innings Sunday, the A's bullpen bounced back by shutting the door on the Blue Jays Monday as John Axford, Liam Hendriks and Santiago Casilla gave up just one run over three innings. The bullpen's lone blemish was a two-out home run surrendered by Hendriks to Justin Smoak in the eighth.
