Williams Fans 13, Three CLE Homers Bury Toronto 6-1

Gavin Williams threw 7.0 innings of two-hit, zero-run ball with 13 strikeouts, and Cleveland's lineup backed him with three home runs to put Toronto away 6-1. The story of the night was a complete team performance that made the final score feel inevitable from the fifth inning on.

Toronto actually drew first blood in the fifth on a wild pitch that scored Kazuma Okamoto, giving the Blue Jays a 1-0 lead. It was the only moment all night Cleveland looked even slightly vulnerable — and it lasted about as long as it took Patrick Bailey to get to the plate. Bailey crushed a 407-foot homer to center that scored Martínez and flipped the game to 2-1 Cleveland. That swing moved Cleveland's win probability from 45% to 75%, a 30-point lurch that effectively ended the competitive portion of the evening.

From there, the Angels of the lineup — both of them — took over. In the seventh, Angel Genao launched a 426-foot shot to left that scored Martínez again, pushing the lead to 4-1. Then in the eighth, Angel Martínez himself went deep to right center at 384 feet, scoring Halpin and making it 6-1. Three home runs, three different hitters, three different innings — Cleveland's offense looks like it found a rhythm at exactly the right time of year.

But the real headline is Williams. Thirteen strikeouts over seven innings, allowing just two hits and one walk, with zero earned runs — that is a dominant outing by any measure. Spencer Arrighetti lasted only 3.2 innings for Toronto, giving up 2 hits, 2 earned runs, and striking out just 2, which appears to be the moment the game slipped away from the Blue Jays before it ever really got started. Jo Adell went 2-for-4 to pace the Cleveland lineup on the offensive side, while Alejandro Kirk's 1-for-4 night was representative of a Toronto offense that could not get anything going against Williams. Hunter Gaddis added a clean inning of relief to close it out. Cleveland wins 6-1, and it wasn't particularly close.