Edwin Encarnacion is congratulated by Jose Bautista after hitting a grand slam home run in the first inning during MLB game action against the Texas Rangers on June 26, 2015 at Rogers Centre.Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images
And the hits just keep on coming.
This was an old promotional line for top-40 AM radio stations back in the day, and it certainly applies to the Toronto Blue Jays and their rock-'em, sock-'em brand of baseball this season.
Down 1-0 to the Texas Rangers Friday night after stocky Prince Fielder unloaded on Toronto pitcher Mark Buehrle for a solo home run in the top of the first inning? No problem.
In almost typical, ho-hum fashion for the home side this season, the run-hungry Blue Jays proceeded to load the bases in their half of the first for Edwin Encarnacion.
Encarnacion then proved this plan of attack was a good idea, hammering a 1-1 offering from Nick Martinez into the centre-field cheap seats, one of two home runs he swatted on the night.
The grand slam quickly erased the Texans' lead and the Blue Jays never looked back, rolling to a 12-2 victory in the first of a three-game weekend series against the Rangers at Rogers Centre.
In improving to 40-35 on the year, the Blue Jays won for the third time in their past four outings while continuing to pad some pretty impressive offensive statistics in the process.
Toronto entered the day as baseball's most dangerous offensive unit by a long shot, with a league-leading 405 runs scored – a whopping 55 more than the next best team, the New York Yankees.
The game against Texas marked the 13th time in 75 games this season that the Blue Jays have scored 10 or more runs. The only accomplished that feat on 10 occasions in all of last season's 162 games.
With Friday's night's four-run outburst in the first inning, the Blue Jays have now scored at least that many runs in an inning 29 times this season, a major-league best.
The Blue Jays welcomed back Devon Travis, their spark-plug rookie, into the fold for the game after more than a month on the sidelines with a collarbone/shoulder injury. Munenori Kawasaki was dispatched to Triple-A to make room on the roster.
Travis was immediately inserted into second base in place of Ryan Goins, who did a great job filling in during the absence. Travis went 1-for-4 on the night.
Fielder's home run was his 300th of his career and he is moving close to the total amassed by his father, Cecil, who stroked 319 during his big-league career. Bobby (332) and Barry Bonds (762) are the only other father-and-son tandem to have both knocked at least 300 home runs apiece in the history of the game.
That milestone hardly had a chance to register before Encarnacion went to work, taking Martinez deep for his seventh career grand slam, his 15th home run of the season. He added No. 16 on the year in the seventh, a less obtrusive solo shot.
Russell Martin also went deep for the Blue Jays, his 11th on the year, in the third inning.
It all added up to an enjoyable excursion for Buehrle, who was on cruise control to improve to 8-4 on the year, allowing two Texas runs off five hits over seven innings.
Things were so rough on the Rangers that they needed infielder Adam Rosales to pitch in the eighth, and he surrendered Toronto's fourth home run of the night off the bat of Danny Valencia.
After the game, the Blue Jays announced that lefthander Matt Boyd is being called up from Triple-A to make his MLB pitching debut on Saturday against the Rangers.