The Toronto Blue Jays turned Hunter Greene blue with a club record five home runs to win the series on a 10-3 rout.
Greene returned from the 60-day injured list to start the rubber game of the three-game series against the Toronto Blue Jays.
His start was rocky. Bo Bichette tripled past the leaping attempt of a catch at the wall by TJ Friedl. Bichette scored on an error on a ground ball by Brandon Belt.
Hyun Jin-Ryu started for Toronto. He is also recovering from injury making his fourth start since returning. He retired the Reds in order in the first.
The Blue Jays went after Greene in the second inning. Danny Jansen doubled down the third base line with one out. Kevin Kiermaier put his sixth home run of the year into the Blue Jays bullpen in right field. Whit Merrifield doubled and after Bichette struck out Belt hit his 12th home run off the top of the right field wall. Stuart Fairchild appeared to be shaken up on the play. He was removed from the game under concussion protocol.
Spencer Steer hit an infield single to open the Reds second. Christian Encarnacion-Strand singled Steer to third. In his first big league at bat flied out to shallow left. Steer bluffed going home. Matt Chapman cutoff the throw. Encarnacion-Strand took off for second. Chapman threw the ball wide of second baseman Whit Merrifield that split the outfielders all the way to the wall in center as both runners scored.
The Blue Jays bludgeoned Greene in the fourth. Bichette hit his 18th. Belt blasted his second of the game and 13th of the season that reached the left field seats. It was his 10th career two-home run game and second of the year. Vladimir Guerrero walked and George Springer hit his 15h of the season. When Varsho walked, Greene was removed in favor of Buck Farmer. He completed the inning with no further damage.
The five home runs Greene allowed tied the Reds record for the 12th time. Greene gave up five home runs to the Milwaukee Brewers on May 5 last season. He pitched three plus innings and was charged with eight earned runs on 10 hits and three walks. He finished with four strikeouts.
"It was frustrating. It is not what I envisioned for my first game back," Greene said. "I feel good but it was really frustrating.
"I think we need a little bit of time to let it (Greene's game) sink in and maybe take a closer look, watch the video," David Bell said. "From where I was I thought his stuff was good. He had a really good fastball, slider, he tried to use his change up a little. They were seeing him really good. They were on everything. Clearly it was not a good day. Overall, he seamed healthy, the injury concerns and if everything else checks out he got the first one under his belt. He should be fine."
Guerrero Jr. injured his left middle finger on a bad swing in the fourth inning.
Ryu allowed two unearned runs on four hits in five innings. He walked four and struck out five.
Tyler Stephenson hit his ninth home run batting for Luke Maile in the seventh. The home run off Bowden Francis was his second pinch hit home run of the season.
The Reds committed four errors in the game. MaLain and Marte made one. Elly De La Cruz made two errors. The Blue Jays were charged with two errors.
Jansen singled home Varsho, who hit a double off Alex Young to close out the Blue Jays' scoring.
Francis earned his first career save.
Marte doubled in the ninth inning for his first Major League hit.
Fairchild will miss at least seven days with a concussion.
"Stuart (Fairchild) does have a concussion," Bell said. "He led off the next inning. I asked him. The trainers asked him if he was ok at that point. There was not enough time to get to the bottom of it. He went back out and had some more plays, chasing down. The combination of things brought out the symptoms a little bit after the fact. The good thing is we got him out of there to take care of him, hopefully, we'll get him back after that."
Maile was taken out of the game after he was hit flush in the mask.
"It was the same thing. It looks like he does not have concussion but had a bit of a headache," Bell said.
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