Blue Jays get homer happy, hitting five in rout of the Reds

Where the heck has this been all season?
The Blue Jays had their biggest offensive outburst of the season Tuesday night, pinning back the ears of the visiting Cincinnati Reds 10-3.
They made Rogers Centre look small for the first time in years, pounding out 10 runs on 13 hits against rookie starter Carson Spiers over his 4 1/3 innings of work, and not putting a zero on the scoreboard until going down in order against reliever Jakob Junis in the sixth.
Six of the Jays’ first eight hits went for extra bases: home runs by George Springer, Alejandro Kirk and Spencer Horwitz, triples by Daulton Varsho and Joey Loperfido, and an Addison Barger double.
Springer went deep again, and his 16th home run of the season moved him out of a tie with Varsho for second place on the team behind Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (26). Leo Jimenez, back after missing two games with a sore right knee, homered as well.
The five round-trippers were a season-high for the Jays. They hadn’t hit five against the same pitcher in a game in exactly one year. The last time it happened was also against the Reds, albeit at the launching pad that is the Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati versus Hunter Greene. Springer had one of those, along with Bo Bichette, Brandon Belt (2) and Kevin Kiermaier.
The spigot closed once Spiers left the game, though, as the last 11 Jays to come to the plate were retired in order.
Incredibly, the final six were set down by the Reds’ backup catcher, former Jay Luke Maile, making his ninth career appearance on the mound.
The most effective pitcher of the night for either side, Maile needed 28 pitches to throw two perfect innings, breaking 70 miles per hour only three times. His final delivery of the evening was an old-school eephus pitch, flipped in to Davis Schneider at 41.3 m.p.h. It was grounded to third baseman Noelvi Marte.
The beneficiary of all the early offence was José Berríos, who allowed two runs on six hits over seven innings while striking out seven and picking up his team-leading 12th win of the season against nine losses.