Khris Davis powers A’s to 5-4 win over Blue Jays

OAKLAND - Khris Davis hit two home runs, Ryon Healy hit his first career homer and Sonny Gray snapped a 12-game winless streak as the Athletics defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 on Saturday.

Davis was 2 for 4 in his ninth career multi-homer game, three of which have come this season.

The A’s have homered six times in two games, three of them by Davis.

The Blue Jays, who’d won eight of nine games going into the All-Star break, lost to Oakland for a second straight day to start the second half.

The A’s are 12-10 since a dreadful stretch from May 1 to June 19 in which they lost 29 of 44.

Gray (4-8) ended a career-worst seven-game skid. He was 0-7 with a 6.16 ERA over his previous 12 starts. He allowed three runs on six hits and four walks in six innings Saturday.

The 24-year-old Healy, playing in his second game since being called up from Triple-A Sacramento for the first time on Friday, crushed a 66-mph pitch off knuckleballer R.A. Dickey (7-10) for his first major league hit.

Dickey, who’d won five of his previous eight starts, allowed five runs on five hits, including three homers, and three walks in six innings.

Justin Smoak hit a solo homer, his 10th, off A’s closer Ryan Madson, who pitched the ninth for his 19th save.

A’s Notes

C Josh Phegley, on the disabled list since July 2 with a strained right knee, could resume baseball activities within a week.

LHP Sean Doolittle, out since June 26 with a left shoulder strain, could start throwing within a week.

No timetable has been established for RHPs Henderson Alvarez (right shoulder surgery) and Fernando Rodriguez (right shoulder strain), out since March 25 and July 4, respectively.