Blue Jays avoid sweep with comeback win over Twins

Toronto Blue Jays starter Kevin Gausman cracked a couple of superstitious cold ones and found himself off the hook for an uncommonly sloppy outing on Sunday.

Toronto Blue Jays starter Kevin Gausman cracked a couple of superstitious cold ones and found himself off the hook for an uncommonly sloppy outing on Sunday.

After Gausman left his teammates with a five-run deficit, Cavan Biggio’s three-run homer in the eighth inning completed a 7-6 comeback win for the Toronto Blue Jays against the Minnesota Twins before 41,673 at Rogers Centre.

The tide began to turn when Gausman retired to the trainer’s room inside the Blue Jays clubhouse and opened a beer.

“There were some nervous sips, but we kept going, so I opened another one,” Gausman confessed.

“It’s rally beers, and sometimes this happens. Like I said, it’s superstition.”

The Twins roughed up Gausman with a four-run first inning and two more in the fifth inning.

But Matt Chapman’s two-run homer in a three-run fifth inning ignited the Blue Jays’ comeback.

“A lot of pitches, too many walks and too many three and two counts,” Gausman said. “Obviously, I wasn’t very sharp.”