TORONTO (Interstat) — Jesús Sánchez hit a grand slam in the sixth inning and the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Miami Marlins 8-1 on Tuesday night at Rogers Centre in front of 42,815 fans in a game that lasted 2 hours, 35 minutes.

The victory evened the season series between the two clubs at one game apiece after Miami won 8-2 on Monday in the opener of this three-game set. Toronto moved to 26-29 on the season while Miami dropped to 26-30.

Sánchez, the Blue Jays’ right fielder, finished 2 for 4 with the grand slam, his sixth home run of the season, and four runs batted in. He also was hit by a pitch and struck out twice. The grand slam came in the bottom of the sixth inning with Toronto already leading 4-1 and turned the game into a rout.

Spencer Miles earned his first win of the season for Toronto. The right-hander pitched 4 1/3 innings, allowing three hits and one earned run while striking out three. Miles did not walk a batter and threw 68 pitches, 43 for strikes.

Sandy Alcantara took the loss for Miami, falling to 3-4 on the season. Alcantara lasted 5 2/3 innings, surrendering eight runs seven earned on 10 hits and one walk while striking out five. He hit three batters and threw 98 pitches.

The Blue Jays outhit Miami 12-5 and did not commit an error. The Marlins committed one error that did not lead to a run.

The game was scoreless through the first inning. Miami had a brief opportunity in the top of the first when Otto Lopez reached on a throwing error by third baseman Kazuma Okamoto after singling, but he was stranded at second when Kyle Stowers flied out to left to end the inning.

Toronto put the first run on the board in the bottom of the second when second baseman Ernie Clement hit a solo home run to left-center field, his fifth of the season. The ball traveled an estimated 410 feet and gave the Blue Jays a 1-0 lead.

The Marlins answered in the top of the third inning. With one out, Daulton Varsho singled to center off Alcantara. Jesús Sánchez followed with a double to center field, putting runners at second and third. Kazuma Okamoto then grounded a single to left field that was deflected by third baseman Javier Sanoja, scoring Varsho and sending Sánchez to third. Yohendrick Piñango grounded into a double play to end the inning, but Toronto had taken a 2-1 lead.

Miami tied the game in the top of the fifth. Jakob Marsee led off with a single to left field off Miles. Heriberto Hernández followed with a single to shortstop that allowed Marsee to advance to second. Marsee scored when Hernández’s ground ball was fielded by shortstop Andrés Giménez, whose throw to second was late, allowing Marsee to score from third. The run tied the game 2-2.

The Blue Jays broke the tie in the bottom of the sixth. Piñango led off with a home run to center field, his second of the season, giving Toronto a 3-2 lead. After Ernie Clement flied out and Andrés Giménez grounded out, Brandon Valenzuela singled to right field. Lenyn Sosa was hit by a pitch, putting runners at first and second. George Springer then singled to left field, scoring Valenzuela and sending Sosa to third. Daulton Varsho walked to load the bases.

Sánchez then stepped to the plate and launched a 1-2 pitch from Alcantara over the right-field wall for a grand slam that cleared the bases and extended Toronto’s lead to 8-2. The home run was Sánchez’s sixth of the season and his second in as many days. He had hit a solo home run in Monday’s loss.

The five-run outburst was the pivotal moment of the game. Sánchez’s grand slam marked the Blue Jays’ only extra-base hit of the night aside from Clement’s home run, but it broke the game open and allowed Toronto to cruise through the final three innings.

Cade Gibson pitched 2 1/3 scoreless innings for Miami, allowing two hits and striking out two. Gibson entered the game in the sixth inning after Alcantara’s departure and worked into the eighth, preventing any further damage.

Tanner Andrews pitched two innings in relief for Toronto, allowing one hit and striking out one. Adam Macko pitched 2/3 of an inning, Braydon Fisher pitched one inning and Yariel Rodríguez pitched one inning, combining to allow one hit and no runs while striking out one.

Springer led all hitters with three hits in four at-bats, including a run-scoring single in the sixth. He also was hit by a pitch. Varsho had two hits and a walk but did not score. Clement and Piñango each hit solo home runs. Okamoto had one hit and one run batted in. Valenzuela had two hits.

For Miami, Marsee had one hit and scored the team’s only run. Hernández had one hit and one run batted in. Lopez had one hit but was caught stealing in the first inning on an error. Sanoja had two hits for the Marlins.

The only other scoring threat for Miami came in the top of the ninth. Kyle Stowers walked with one out, and Jakob Marsee walked with two outs, but Heriberto Hernández struck out swinging to end the game.

The loss snapped a three-game winning streak for the Marlins, who had swept the New York Mets at home over the weekend before dropping the series opener to Toronto. Miami had won four of five before Tuesday.

Toronto snapped a four-game losing streak with the victory. The Blue Jays had lost three in a row to the Pittsburgh Pirates and the opener against Miami.

The two teams will play the rubber match of the three-game series on Wednesday afternoon at Rogers Centre. Miami will send a pitcher to be determined to the mound against Toronto’s right-hander Kevin Gausman.

Interstat’s game simulator projected a final score of Toronto 5, Miami 4. Interstat’s ELO system gave Toronto a 60.60 percent probability to win. Toronto was installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of minus 1.5. The total score of 9 went under the over-under line of 8.