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Santiago Casilla’s disastrous night costs Blackburn, Melvin wins

TORONTO - TORONTO - Were it not for Santiago Casilla, Paul Blackburn would have his second big-league win tucked away and Bob Melvin his 1,000th.

Casilla, the A’s closer, inherited a two-run lead in the ninth and promptly turned it right over, failing to get an out in Toronto’s 3-2 victory Wednesday at Rogers Center.

Casilla walked Josh Donaldson to open the ninth, Justin Smoak clobbered a two-run homer to right, and Kendrys Morales followed by doing the same. Casilla threw 11 pitches in blowing his sixth save in 22 chances and his fourth in 16 games.