TORONTO - Josh Reddick snapped out of his season-long slump with a bang. Three of them, to be precise.
Reddick homered in three consecutive at-bats, Jed Lowrie and Yoenis Cespedes also connected and the Oakland Athletics beat the Toronto Blue Jays 14-6 Friday night.
"Fantastic," Reddick said. "Finally got something to go my way. You hit it over there, they can't catch it."
Reddick was hitless in his previous 20 at-bats before connecting off Esmil Rogers with a solo blast in the second inning that hit the facing of the second deck in right. He hit another solo homer in the fifth, an opposite-field shot to left off reliever Neil Wagner, and then smacked a three-run drive off Juan Perez in the sixth.
"That was a breakthrough," Oakland manager Bob Melvin said. "Long time coming for him."
The home runs were the sixth, seventh and eighth of the season for Reddick, who has three career multihomer games. All three homers came with two outs.
The power-packed performance proved a tough act to follow for Oakland DH Seth Smith, who watched all three homers from the on-deck circle.
"I was like "Aw man, how am I going to follow that?'" Smith joked.