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Giants Muscle Up With Four Homers, Edge Blue Jays

TORONTO (AP) Pablo Sandoval went 3-for-4 and homered for the first time this year, one of a season-high four home runs for San Francisco, and the offensively challenged Giants outlasted the Toronto Blue Jays 7-6 on Tuesday night.

Joe Panik homered and drove in three runs, and Evan Longoria and Brandon Belt also went deep for the Giants, who came in 29th in the majors in batting and ahead of just one team in home runs. It was San Francisco's first four-homer game since July 4, 2018, against Arizona.

Rowdy Tellez hit his first career grand slam for the Blue Jays, whose four-game winning streak was snapped.

San Francisco's Kevin Pillar drove in the opening run in his first game against the team that traded him away on April 2.

Jeff Samardzija (2-1) allowed two earned runs in 5 1/3 innings, improving to 3-0 in four starts against the Blue Jays. He allowed five hits, walked one and struck out four. Will Smith worked a perfect ninth for his sixth save.

Toronto's Trent Thornton (0-3) lasted five innings in his fifth major league start, giving up four earned runs off of six hits, striking out five.

The Blue Jays trailed 7-2 before Tellez's one-out, bases-loaded bash in the eighth off Tony Watson, who stayed on and finished the inning.

Belt's home run off Thomas Pannone, which hit the facade of the third deck in right field, was his fifth of the season, and it broke an 0-for-15 run against left-handed pitching.

Panik's solo shot in the fifth inning was his first of the year, and he doubled in two runs in the third. Sandoval slugged one over the center-field fence in the eighth.

Samardzija had retired 10 straight batters before Eric Sogard took him deep to lead off the sixth. He was pulled with two runners on after throwing 85 pitches, and Mark Melancon worked out of the jam.

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