TORONTO _ Chris Paddack Day got postponed, and Marcus Stroman made sure the Padres' next big game would be back in the United States.
The Blue Jays' veteran right-hander, who had pitched far better than his record, on Sunday went just five innings in earning his third victory of the season, as a couple of Toronto's top prospects had big days of their own in a 10-1 victory at Rogers Centre.
Shortly after the Padres beat the Jays 19-4 on Saturday, manager Andy Green was looking ahead to the challenge of Stroman and the "battle at-bats" it would require.
Stroman was 2-6 entering the game _ but with a 2.81 ERA. The difficulty in facing him lies in his vast array of pitches, including a biting slider.
He had to throw 89 pitches in his short outing. But Wil Myers' home run in the fifth inning, just the fifth off Stroman in his 69 innings this season, was the visitors' only run, as they had a winning streak ended at five games.
With a stiff neck keeping Paddack from making his scheduled Sunday start _ he will instead pitch Wednesday at Yankee Stadium _ the Padres went with a "bullpen game" started by Robbie Erlin.
The left-hander got through a scoreless first inning before Lourdes Gurriel Jr. led off the second with a single and later scored on a groundout by Brandon Drury.
Gurriel, who was called up from Triple-A on Friday, pushed the lead to 2-0 in the fourth inning with his third home run of the series. Cavan Biggio, the player who drove him to Toronto from Buffalo, followed with his first career homer.
Biggio, whose father, Hall of Famer Craig Biggio was in the stands, made his major league debut Friday.
Both of those homers came off Matt Wisler.
Luis Perdomo relieved Wisler in the fifth and promptly allowed four runs, two of them on Justin Smoak's home run, another on a Gurriel double and the last on a single by Biggio.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr., whose father is also in the Hall of Fame, went 3-for-5. He scored a run in the ninth when Smoak hit his second homer of the game, this one off Adam Warren.
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