Toronto Blue Jays' Myles Straw, right, puts on a jacket for Bo Bichette as he returns to the dugout after hitting a three-run home run off Colorado Rockies relief pitcher Carson Palmquist in the seventh inning of a baseball game Monday, Aug. 4, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Bichette has 2 HRs and 6 RBIs, Blue Jays get 25 hits in 15-1 victory over Rockies

DENVER (AP) — Bo Bichette homered twice and drove in six runs, Ernie Clement had a career-best five of Toronto’s season-high 25 hits and the Blue Jays beat the Colorado Rockies 15-1 on Monday night.

Eric Lauer (7-2) allowed a run in six innings, giving up seven hits with a walk and four strikeouts.

Clement capped the scoring with an RBI single in the ninth and finished with three runs scored. Bichette, Nathan Lukes and Joey Loperfido had three hits apiece and Daulton Varsho had four RBIs.

Lukes hit the first pitch of the game into center field for a double and scored when Bichette singled two pitches later. Clement singled, advanced to second on a wild pitch by Rockies starter Tanner Gordon (2-4) and scored when Davis Schneider singled to make it 2-0 in the second.

Toronto (66-48) is tied with Detroit for the best record in the American League.

Tyler Freeman doubled with two outs in the fifth and scored when Ezequiel Tovar singled.

Lukes singled to drive in Clement, Bichette hit a three-run shot and Varsho added an RBI single in the seventh to make it 14-1.

Key moment

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Addison Barger led off the third with back-to-back singles before Varsho hit a three-run homer. Ernie Clement tripled and scored when Loperfido singled before Davis Schneider hit a run-scoring double, Lukes walked and Bichette added a two-run home run that capped Toronto’s seven-run inning and made it 9-0.

Key stat

The Blue Jays also set season highs for at-bats (50), total bases (39), runs scored (15) and RBIs (15).

Up next

Toronto’s José Berríos (7-4, 3.84 ERA) is set to take the mound Tuesday against Kyle Freeland (2-11, 5.26) in the second of a three-game set.

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Toronto Blue Jays’ Bo Bichette heads up the first base line after hitting a three-run home run off Colorado Rockies relief pitcher Carson Palmquist in the seventh inning of a baseball game Monday, Aug. 4, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
As the setting sun colors the sky above Coors Field, Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. heads back to his position in the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Toronto Blue Jays right fielder Nathan Lukes, right, pulls in a fly ball off the bat of Colorado Rockies’ Thairo Estrada to end the fourth inning of a baseball game Monday, Aug. 4, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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