TORONTO -- Brett Anderson took on his former team for his second straight start, and he became the latest victim of the Blue Jays’ bats, as the A’s fell to the American League East squad a fifth consecutive time, losing Saturday’s affair, 7-1.

The left-hander lasted 4 1/3 innings, allowing six runs on 10 hits with two walks and two strikeouts.

“My velocity was the best it’s been all year,” Anderson said. “Arm-wise and body-wise, I felt good, [it was] just my command, especially early in the count, and getting ahead of hitters wasn’t there like it normally is. It seemed like, for the most part, if I got ahead of a guy, I got him out, but that was kind of few and far between.

“It was a battle from the get-go. If I had a couple plays go my way, keep us in the ballgame, could have been a different story. But you’ve got to overcome some of those things and get the people out, regardless. I’m going to put this one behind me.”

Anderson allowed two runs in each of the first, second and fifth innings before making his exit. The first-inning damage came when an inning-ending double play was overturned by review after umpires had ruled that Randal Grichuk committed an illegal slide while disrupting Jurickson Profar’s throw, which sailed wide of first and allowed the Blue Jays to take an early 2-0 lead.

“I saw what I thought was sliding in and coming up and then kind of rolling over the bag,” A’s manager Bob Melvin said. “Whether or not he’s in proximity of the bag, he didn’t change his angle, and that’s what Larry [Vanover, second-base umpire] was saying, the same as I was, but went to New York and they overturned it.”

As Oakland awaited the ruling of the review, Profar was checked on by trainers, but he remained in the game.

“My fingers went numb a little bit, but they came around after,” Profar said. “[There was] a lot [of impact] because before I threw, he was already on me. So I went to throw around him and I threw it wide, and then he hit me. He had an impact because he doesn’t slide early. He came all the way in standing, and then he slid.”

The A’s scored their only run of the game on a similar play, one that was also challenged by the Blue Jays, after Profar slid into second in the fifth inning. Consistent with the ruling from New York on the first-inning play, it was determined there was no interference at second.

Oakland’s offense couldn’t put much together, mustering only four hits against a team that has outscored the A’s 27-7 in their first five meetings.

“They’ve just played better than we have, unfortunately,” Melvin said. “So we have to come out with a little different mojo tomorrow. They just outplayed us.”

Anderson was coming off his shortest start of the season, when he allowed two runs over 2 2/3 innings against the Blue Jays on Sunday in Oakland, exiting early after spraining his left ankle. The southpaw has struggled in his career at Rogers Centre, entering Saturday’s matchup with a 1-2 record and a 7.07 ERA in four starts.

“Felt a little rusty coming out of the last start and stuff, but I battled,” Anderson said. “But my command wasn’t very good, first-pitch strikes were terrible. I was behind in the count a lot. … They put some good swings on balls. It seems like they found a hole in the shift or there was some soft contact, some hard contact, and it was just a grind from pitch 3, essentially.”

The 31-year-old Oklahoma native made seven starts for the Blue Jays during the 2017 season, going 2-2 with a 5.13 ERA before rejoining the A’s the following spring.

“Just didn’t really settle in, from the very beginning,” Melvin said of Anderson. “And then he did settle in a couple innings, and a leadoff walk in the fifth, and he was just pitching around a lot of traffic today. At times, had decent stuff and for the most part was just a little inconsistent.”

Anderson became the first pitcher to face Vladimir Guerrero Jr. after also matching up against his father. Vladimir Guerrero Sr. went 1-for-5 with a single and an RBI against the southpaw, while the 20-year-old Blue Jays infielder was 0-for-2 with a walk and a strikeout vs. Anderson on Saturday.

“I got up when I was fairly young, and [learning that fact] just made me feel old,” Anderson said.