Justin Morneau homers twice, Delmon Young also goes deep as Twins beat Blue Jays 8-3

Morneau homers twice, Twins beat Blue Jays 8-3

TORONTO — Justin Morneau homered twice, Delmon Young also went deep and the Minnesota Twins beat the Toronto Blue Jays 8-3 on Monday night.

Morneau went 3 for 4 with a walk and four RBIs. He hit a solo homer off Rommie Lewis in the sixth inning and added a two-run drive off Shawn Camp in the eighth, his first multihomer game this season and the 13th of his career. Morneau also homered Sunday at Yankee Stadium and has hit safely in 10 straight games.

Jose Bautista homered for the fourth time in three games for the Blue Jays, his team-leading 11th, but Toronto’s four-game winning streak ended.

Kevin Slowey (5-3) earned his first win in five career starts against the Blue Jays as the Twins won for just the fourth time in 14 games at Toronto.

Slowey allowed three runs and eight hits in five innings, walked none and struck out two.

Alex Burnett pitched two innings, Matt Guerrier worked the eighth and Jesse Crain finished.

Young opened the scoring with a leadoff homer in the second, his fourth, off Blue Jays left-hander Dana Eveland (3-3), who lost consecutive starts for the first time this season.

Eveland allowed five runs, three earned, and nine hits in four-plus innings. He walked four and struck out two.

Bautista briefly put the Blue Jays on top with a two-run homer off Slowey in the second, but the Twins took the lead for good with a four-run fourth, doing all the damage with two outs and taking advantage of some sloppy play by Toronto first baseman Lyle Overbay.

Hudson hit an RBI single, went to third on a base hit by Joe Mauer and scored on Morneau’s single up the middle, with Mauer going to third. Michael Cuddyer followed with a grounder to third, but Overbay couldn’t handle Bautista’s throw and was charged with an error as Mauer scored. Overbay tried to get Morneau at third but his throw sailed down the line for another error, allowing Morneau to score.

Overbay, who earlier failed to come up with balls hit by Brendan Harris, Jason Kubel and Denard Span, was jeered by the crowd of 13,892 after his two errors, and again in his final two at-bats. The errors were his second and third.

Vernon Wells made it 5-3 with an RBI single in the fifth but Morneau homered twice in the next three innings, both times with two outs, to keep the Twins in control.

NOTES: Toronto placed OF Travis Snider (right wrist) on the 15-day disabled list and sent him to Florida for an MRI on Tuesday. 3B Edwin Encarnacion will be activated from the DL in time for Tuesday’s game. Encarnacion has been out since April 15 with a sore right shoulder. … Slowey has not lost back-to-back starts this season. … Blue Jays C John Buck made a sliding pickup on a slow roller by Span and threw to first from a seated position for an out in the eighth.