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TORONTO (AP) -- It was time for Mike Piazza to unload.
|  | | Mike Piazza is hitting .348 after going 1-for-5 with a grand slam on Tuesday. |
Piazza hit a grand slam, breaking a lightbulb on a SkyDome
clock, and the New York Mets defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 11-7
Tuesday night.
After Chris Carpenter (7-9) loaded the bases by walking Lenny
Harris, Derek Bell and Edgardo Alfonzo in the fifth inning, Piazza
crushed a ball over the Windows restaurant in left-center field.
"The ball was still going up when it hit," manager Bobby
Valentine said.
Piazza has four homers in his last five games and 27 this
season. He tied a club record with his third slam of the season,
and has 12 in his career.
"I hit it pretty hard," Piazza said. "I was just so relaxed
and tension free. It was the only good swing I had all night."
Toronto's Shannon Stewart tied a major league record with four
doubles.
Stewart went 4-for-5 for the Blue Jays, who had a season-high 11
extra-base hits, including eight doubles.
Carpenter, projected to be Toronto's No. 2 starter, has allowed
36 earned runs in his last 23 1/3 innings. The 25-year-old
right-hander gave up seven runs on five hits, and six walks in
four-plus innings.
"Sometimes he shows he wants to fight through it, and other
times he just hangs his head," Blue Jays manager Jim Fregosi said.
"I can understand a ball getting hit out of the park. It's the
walks that bother me."
Carpenter, who underwent elbow surgery last September, said he's
healthy.
"I'm fine," he said. "This is frustrating on Fregosi as it is
for me. It's frustrating because he's seen me pitch well."
Bobby J. Jones (4-4) gave up five runs on 10 hits, including
seven doubles and nine extra-base hits in six innings.
"I made some mistakes, but I thought I made a lot of good
pitches," Jones said.
Harris, replacing the injured Robin Ventura at third, led off
the game with a homer. Harris, who went 3-for-4 on Monday night,
also hit an RBI double in the eighth.
Consecutive doubles by Stewart and Craig Grebeck tied it at 1 in
the bottom half. After Darrin Fletcher doubled in the second,
Stewart doubled again to give Toronto a 2-1 lead.
Alfonzo's RBI single in the third tied it.
Tony Batista's run-scoring single in the bottom half gave
Toronto the lead again, but Joe McEwing's RBI grounder in the
fourth tied it. Piazza gave the Mets a 7-3 lead an inning later.
"Piazza got him," Fletcher said. "He hits them hard
consistently."
Brad Fullmer homered for Toronto in the fifth.
Consecutive doubles by Bell and Alfonzo made it 8-4 in the
sixth.
Raul Mondesi's seventh-inning homer, his 24th, off a SkyDome
restaurant in left field, cut it to 8-5.
Bell's two-run homer in the eighth made it 11-5.
Game
notes
The Mets won two straight after losing nine of 12. ...
Harris homered leading off a game two other times. ... Ventura is
on the 15-day disabled list with a bruise in his right rotator
cuff. ... Toronto right-hander Leo Estrella, making his major
league debut, gave up one run on five hits in three innings. The
former Mets' prospect was called up from Triple-A Syracuse before
the game. The Blue Jays demoted right-hander Pasquel Coco, who gave
up four runs in four-plus innings in his debut on Monday. ... The
Mets and Blue Jays finished 9-9 in interleague play. ... Damaso
Garcia had four doubles for Toronto in 1986. ... John Milner in
1976 and Ventura last year also hit three grand slams for the Mets.
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