Texas still leads the best-of-five series, 2-1, so Toronto still needs another road win on Monday afternoon to get the series back to Toronto. “So job well done, but he’s been doing that all year”.
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“I haven’t been swinging the bat the greatest”, Tulowitzki said. The franchise post-season record is five by Tony Fernandez in 1993.
“No stretch of the imagination did we think that this was going to be a ball club that was going to do anything other than what they did [Sunday night] – show up ready to play”, Bannister said.
What’s next: Game 4 at 4:07 p.m. on Fox Sports 1 – 40-year-old R.A. Dickey (11-11, 3.91 ERA) will bring his knuckleball to Arlington in a must-win game against Derek Holland (4-3, 4.91 ERA) and the Rangers.
Toronto cut the deficit in half in the third on Bautista’s two-out double. The previous mark was two, which happened five times. On the second hit, Jose Bautista bobbled the ball to put runners on first and second. “We know we could do anything we wanted really”.
Hitting: Blue Jays’ starter Marco Estrada the first eight batters before Hanser Alberto’s two-out double in the third.
A dozen innings before his go-ahead run, Odor came home on a short flyball to centre to score on a close play. But he answered the fans in the bottom of the inning with a fine running foul catch at the seats.
A Cardinals official said the latch froze during the latter innings of the Cardinals’ 4-0 victory Friday night. He watched intently as fellow southpaws Cole Hamels and Martin Perez started in this series, looking to pick things up in case he was called upon.
In the seventh, Keuchel stayed in the game to face Royals center fielder Lorenzo Cain, who had smacked a towering homer to lead off the fourth inning and represented the tying run in a two-run game. When Josh Donaldson tagged up from second base in the fourth inning, it set the tone for how the Blue Jays were going to attack the base paths. Perez then intentionally walked Edwin Encarnacion and unintentionally walked Chris Colabello and Troy Tulowitzki, forcing in a run.
Pillar opened the fifth by getting to second on a single and fielding error. Also, Ryan Goins and Ben Revere should not be hitting back-to-back in the ninth and leadoff spots.
Two singles to start the sixth ended Perez’s night.
That was two innings after he drew a bases-loaded walk. Encarnacion was dispatched going home as Colabello hit into yet another double play. Gonzalez looked to be out of the jam but Tulowitzki took him deep on a 3-1 pitch to make it 5-0.
That’s why it’s fitting that his first career postseason start will be in Arlington when he takes the ball for the Toronto Blue Jays. His season ERA was 3.13.
Sunday marked the 32-year-old’s first playoff start after four relief appearances for Milwaukee in 2011.
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Beltre will be reevaluated before Sunday’s game. “Good enough to go, good enough to play and tons of treatment, to be honest with you”, Tulowitzki said in the postgame press conference when asked about his health. Tulowitzki also had three hits in that game, and he already was Toronto’s igniter once this season.
