Major League Baseball
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Toronto 10, Seattle 2
When: 1:07 PM ET, Sunday, May 5, 2013
Where: Rogers Centre, Toronto, Ontario
Temperature: 64°
Umpires: Home - Lance Barksdale, 1B - Cory Blaser, 2B - Jim Joyce, 3B - Ed Hickox
Attendance: 22937

Blue Jays 10, Mariners 2: Mark DeRosa and Melky Cabrera homered in a four-run fifth inning as Toronto averted a sweep at the hands of visiting Seattle.

Cabrera and Maicer Izturis both finished 3-for-4 and DeRosa added three hits for the Blue Jays, who won for just the second time in the past 10 games. Starter Brandon Morrow (1-2) threw eight strong innings, limiting his former team to two runs on three hits while striking out eight and walking a season-high five.

Mariners counterpart Joe Saunders (2-4) was torched for seven runs on nine hits over five innings. The veteran left-hander has a 9.13 ERA over his last four starts.

Toronto came into the game having scored just three runs in its previous four games, but had little trouble against Saunders. Leading 3-2, Cabrera extended the advantage with a solo shot to left - his first of the season - and DeRosa made it a rout with a three-run blast to straightaway center field.

An Edwin Encarnacion RBI groundout made it 8-2 in the sixth, and Munenori Kawasaki and Cabrera capped the rout with run-scoring singles in the seventh.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Seattle took advantage of four Morrow walks to score its only two runs in the fifth, as Robert Andino had an RBI groundout and Kyle Seager added a run-scoring sacrifice fly. ... The Blue Jays improved to 8-0 when scoring at least five runs. ... Toronto, which finished 2-4 on its six-game homestand, opens a seven-game road trip Monday against the Tampa Bay Rays. The Mariners continue their five-game trek Tuesday in Pittsburgh.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Seattle   Toronto
Joe Saunders Player Brandon Morrow
Loss W/L Win
5.0 IP 8.0
0 Strikeouts 8
9 Hits 3
12.60 ERA 2.25
Hitting
Seattle   Toronto
Kendrys Morales Player Melky Cabrera
1 Hits 3
0 RBI 2
0 HR 1
2 TB 6
.333 Avg .750
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Seattle 3 0 5 .103 10 10 2 5 0 0
Toronto 15 2 24 .417 23 1 10 4 4 0