BOSTON — Edwin Encarnacion has already set a Blue Jays record for multi-homer games in a month, with four.
There are still 10 games left in the month.
After hitting two home runs Tuesday night, the first baseman smashed two more on Wednesday, his sixth and seventh in the last six games.
He has 11 homers in May, driving in 23 runs so far this month.
Wednesday night, he did his damage against Boston right-hander Clay Buchholz. Doesn’t sound like much? Well, Encarnacion was 1-for-21 against Buchholz coming into the game.
“The last time we played them in Toronto, we gave Edwin the day off when Buchholz pitched, for that reason,” Toronto manager John Gibbons said after Encarnacion continued his May onslaught. “But he was so hot … you can’t figure some things out, why it happened like that.
“He erased all that tonight.”
Encarnacion is the second Blue Jays slugger with back-to-back multi-homer games. He has seven homers in the last six games, five in the last three.