Pulling fast ones: Jays pounce on Yu’s heat

ARLINGTON — Four fastballs, four home runs. For Yu Darvish, the damage was swift. And for his Rangers, those four blasts were too much to overcome as the Blue Jays held on for a 5-3 win in Friday afternoon’s Game 2 of the American League Division Series and now head to Toronto with a firm 2-0 grip on the best-of-five battle.

Darvish had allowed three home runs in a game only twice in his Major League career, but the Blue Jays equaled that feat in the fifth inning alone on a damp afternoon at Globe Life Park, where they made the most of their six hits on the day.

“Four unexecuted pitches is what it boils down to,” said Rangers manager Jeff Banister. “Four home runs and four unexecuted pitches.”

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Darvish became the first pitcher to allow four homers in a postseason game since the Twins’ Rick Reed in 2002, tying a Major League record that has occurred eight times in playoff history.

“In baseball, these kind of things can happen,” said Darvish.

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