Adam Lind, right, celebrates Monday with teammate Vernon Wells in a 6-3 Blue Jays win. (Matt Slocum/Associated Press)The Texas Rangers lead the major leagues with 89 home runs, yet Adam Lind got the better of them not once but twice.
Lind hit a pair of two-run home runs off previously unbeaten Scott Feldman to power the Toronto Blue Jays past Texas 6-3 at Rangers Ballpark on Monday night.
Lind homered to right field off Feldman in the second inning and to left field in the fourth and already has equalled his career high with 11 home runs this season.
Feldman (5-1) was charged with four runs and seven hits with two walks and two strikeouts over seven innings.
The right-hander had earned the win in his last three starts, and Texas had won the last six games he had pitched.
Marco Scutaro had three hits and one run batted in while Aaron Hill counted the other RBI for the Blue Jays (33-27).
Scott Rolen also had three hits, and Vernon Wells reached base three times and scored twice.
Toronto starter Casey Janssen pitched 5 1/3 innings, permitting three runs вЂ" one unearned вЂ" on six hits and two walks with six strikeouts.
Janssen (2-2), a crafty right-hander with five pitches in his repertoire, took the mound with an 0-2 mark in five career appearances versus the Rangers.
Jason Frasor and Brandon League combined for 2 1/3 innings of scoreless relief before closer Scott Downs recorded the final four outs for his eighth save.
Marlon Byrd and Jarrod Saltalamacchia had a run batted in apiece for the Rangers (33-24).
Toronto took a 4-0 lead on Lind's home runs, but Texas trimmed the deficit with three runs in the bottom of the sixth inning.
Hank Blalock walked, Nelson Cruz singled and David Murphy reached safely on Hill's fielding error to load the bases for Byrd, who singled off Scutaro's glove to cash in a run.
Cruz then scored on a wild pitch from Janssen, who was replaced by Frasor at that point.
Saltalamacchia promptly stroked Frasor's first offering into right field for an RBI single that sliced it to 4-3.
But in the top of the ninth inning, the Blue Jays loaded the bases off reliever Jason Jennings on a double by Rolen, a walk to Lyle Overbay and a single from Kevin Millar.
That brought Darren O'Day to the mound, and he surrendered an RBI single to Scutaro and a run-scoring sacrifice fly to Hill.
With files from The Canadian Press