Keegan Matheson at FanSided called Gibbons’ words “lazy and insensitive language”.
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Girardi said the Yankees chose not to follow up on a protest because baseball’s rule book states the play falls under an umpire’s judgment. Last season, the veteran slugger recorded 41 long balls and 123 RBI en route to becoming the American League’s Most Valuable Player.
Seemingly satisfied, Goins then made his way around the infield, paying particular attention to the landscape around second base, where he usually sets up his office during games. The over is 5-1-3 in Toronto last 9 home games and Toronto are 45-20 in their last 65 home games while going 31-15 in their last 46 games on astroturf. “And underneath here is concrete, so yeah it’s going to be a little rougher on the body diving here, but this is what we got and this is what we’re going to play on and that’s really all I’m concerned about”. Per the rule, umpires ruled both Bautista and batter-runner Edwin Encarnacion out for a game-ending double play. He’s hit safely in 14 straight games against the Blue Jays, and is batting.330 with 16 RBIs in his last 21 meetings.
“It was meant as a little humor”, he told reporters in his office before Wednesday’s game. “They know me”, Gibbons said.
It was the second night in a row in which the Rays came from behind to beat the Jays with an eighth-inning homer against the bullpen.
“He was just suggesting we might want to get the top coat of the new surface a little bit thinner in the area around second”, Farrell later said during an interview. In the process a great outing by JA Happ went by the wayside with two runs allowed through six innings of work with Gavin Floyd giving up a pair while Arnold Leon gave up one. “The louder that place is the better we feel our chances are to win, so we can’t wait to get out there”. “I tried to go three or four innings with it”.
Blue Jays manager John Gibbons exemplified the wrong way Tuesday night, after his team dropped a 3-2 decision to the Rays on a replay review that showed Jose Bautista, attempting to break up a double play, came off second base and grabbed the foot of Rays second baseman Logan Forsythe.
Donaldson, who hit.333 with four homers and 11 RBIs in 19 games against Boston (1-1) in 2015, dealt with the same injury last season and again during spring training.
Pillar, who was a AL Gold Glove finalist a year ago, said diving on turf does punish the body more than grass.
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Toronto Blue Jays’ Jose Bautista hits a triple off Tampa Bay Rays starting pitcher Jake Odorizzi during the fourth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, April 5, 2016, in St. Petersburg, Fla.
