Baseball: Okamoto homers in 3rd straight game as Jays comeback falls short

Kazuma Okamoto hit a home run for the third game in a row and his ninth of the season as the Toronto Blue Jays lost 4-3 to the Minnesota Twins on Sunday.The rookie slugged a 1-0 sweeper from Justin Topa to left center with one out in the ninth inning at Target Field, his two-run shot scoring the final runs of the game as he went deep off the right-hander in the second straight game."We were losing and I wanted to keep the line moving in any positive way possible," said Okamoto, who was batting second for the first time in his entire professional career."Regardless of where I am in the batti…READ FULL ARTICLE