It will be the third straight year the Blue Jays have ended their pre-season with games in Montreal.
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Dickey still has confidence in Osuna and Sanchez despite their struggles against the potent Red Sox lineup.
That involved moving shortstop Ryan Goins into shallow right field with third baseman Josh Donaldson sliding over toward the shortstop’s spot.
Toronto Blue Jays’ catcher Dioner Navarro reacts after striking out… But Xander Bogaerts led off the fourth with a single, and induced a throw when he tried to go first-to-third on David Ortiz’ ground out. The Jays are sending fast-paced lefty Mark Buehrle to the mound.
This means the Yankees won’t leave the New York area until the wee hours of Monday morning with a 7:05 p.m. on tap at the Rogers Centre that night.
The Blue Jays lead the New York Yankees, who did not play Thursday, by 3½ games in the AL East. Toronto won two of three games for their first series win over the Braves since 2008.
Ortiz’s first-inning, two-run homer off Erasmo Ramirez put Boston ahead and gave him 36 homers and 101 RBIs this year. “But he’s motivated to come back, he’s a great competitor and he’s got great stuff”.
In the eighth, Pablo Sandoval came home on Bradley’s sacrifice fly after reaching on a fielding error by reliever Brett Cecil. “It’s important to him and, really, it’s just as important to me because, well, how many guys have done that?”
“Any time that they’re winning games it makes it a lot easier to watch”. “But they can’t all do it if we get in”.
“We’ll be all right, man”, he said.
The Red Sox and the Blue Jays faced off for the final time in 2016. Boston rallied from an early 3-0 deficit in the wrap-up.
Hill was given an opportunity to start last Sunday against the Tampa Bay Rays on the road.
Hill gave up three runs and seven hits in seven innings.
“I can’t say enough about what he did”, interim manager Torey Luvullo said.
When Boston Red Sox pitcher Rich Hill (W, 1-0) found himself working out with his former Babe Ruth baseball team while awaiting a call from an MLB franchise this past spring, it’s doubtful that he expected to become an ace of sorts down the stretch for his hometown franchise.
Bradley homered into the first row of Monster seats in a three-run sixth.
“What was outlined to him was that until he can play on both sides of the ball, he wasn’t going to be activated, so that was part of the progression that was talked about inside of that first meeting”, Lovullo said.
Once again, Shelby Miller (5-15, 3.00 ERA) aims to stop his long winless streak when he pitches for the Braves against the NL East-leading Mets at Citi Field. Mark Lowe came in to pitch and Sandoval took second on a groundout and then moved to third on Sandy Leon’s single.
Sandoval tagged up and Pillar’s throw one-hopped Navarro but was there in plenty of time to get the lumbering Boston runner. Naturally. There are five guys out there and they all want to be in on it. But they can’t all do it if we get in.
He failed his first test on Saturday, pitching too carefully and walking Donaldson and Bautista before allowing the go-ahead run to score on a single by Edwin Encarnacion.
Justin Smoak drove in two runs to go over 50 for the season.
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The Los Angeles Angels ran out 11-8 winners against the Minnesota Twins with Mike Trout hitting two home runs, including a grand slam in a six-run second inning, while Taylor Featherston and Chris Iannetta also went yard.
