For the second consecutive season, Blue Jays reliever Brett Cecil is struggling out of the gates.
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RHP Nathan Eovaldi will make his second start of the season Thursday in the finale of a three-game series against the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre. Beltran grounded out, pitcher Aa.Sanchez to first baseman Colabello, B.McCann to second. “You can’t expect to be good when you’re ball, strike, ball, strike, that’s what it comes down to”, he said.
The game plan was in place and despite Sanchez’s wild curveball and the frustration of another loss – the Jays are 3-5 – there was a lot to like about his execution. “We are curious to see what he has left and go from there”.
NATIONALS 3, BRAVES 0: Tanner Roark pitched seven innings, Stephen Drew and Jayson Werth hit fourth-inning home runs and host Washington defeated winless Atlanta for its fourth straight victory. “We had some hard-hit balls and just couldn’t string enough together, couldn’t get enough guys on base and get any kind of momentum”.
The Blue Jays agreed to a two-year extension of their affiliation with Triple-A Buffalo.
“I thought he threw the ball pretty well tonight”, Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. He has allowed two or fewer earned runs and pitched at least six innings in five of his six starts against Toronto as a Yankee.
I think I speak for all Yankees fans when I say I hope this offensive outburst continues into the latter portion of the season. He gave up six hits in that outing and struck out seven batters while walking no one. “We believe we have a great team offensively, overall I feel like we have a great team”.
Due to the rain delay against the Detroit Tigers on Sunday night, Masahiro Tanaka will pitch the first game of the series, and he’s doing so on six days rest.
After the runners advanced on a sacrifice bunt, Jacoby Ellsbury then knocked a weak single to score what would hold up to be the winning run from third base in a 3-2 NY win.
Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images Michael Pineda pitches better his second time out but still takes a loss.
MARINERS 4, RANGERS 2: Dae-Ho Lee had a pinch-hit two-run homer with two outs in the 10th inning, and Seattle finally won at home after starting 0-5 at Safeco Field.
McCann was only 3 for 19 against Happ, who has given other Yankees issues as well. This is third game between these two AL East clubs, and they will meet again next month in NY. Venditte had to declare which hand he’d throw with (left) before switch-hitter Chase Headley batted. Aaron Hicks’ RBI groundout tied the game, but Happ limited the damage to the one run. Smoak scored and Goins took third when Torreyes was charged with a throwing error on Kevin Pillar’s grounder to the shortstop.
His biggest mistake of the game was in the sixth: It was a full count, two-seam fastball to McCann, who hit a game-tying solo home run to erase a 2-1 Jays lead.
“He’s going to be fine”, Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said of the lefty reliever. RHP Arnold Leon was designated for assignment to make room on the roster.
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Ryan Goins #17 of the Toronto Blue Jays hits an RBI double in the second inning during Major League Baseball game action against the New York Yankees on April 13, 2016 at Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
