Sure, Oakland’s lead was still 6-1, but the Jays had Josh Donaldson, Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion coming up.
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He responded with his best season previous year batting.321 with 15 home runs and 54 RBIs in 101 games with the Blue Jays. The A’s are averaging 5.2 runs over their six-game win streak, compared to 2.6 over their first 11 games. It was just the second time in 15 career starts that Sanchez has allowed more than three earned runs in a game.
Tyler Ladendorf is back with the A’s, getting called up as expected Friday when Valencia went on the D.L. Ladendorf can play both infield and outfield, but the A’s prime need is in the infield with Valencia out. It was Davis’ ninth-inning hit that, with the help of an error, led to the final two runs. He gave up nine hits in five innings, including two homers. “They came out swinging, they’re a good fastball-hitting team”.
Oakland, outhit 13-7 on the day, scored runs in the first, fourth and seventh.
“We definitely needed that today”, manager John Gibbons said after a morale-lifting 9-3 win over the Oakland Athletics. Now with a record of 8-10, the vaunted Jays offence has topped five runs just twice this season and there wasn’t enough to overcome the early hole they slipped into on Friday.
The Athletics (10-8) could only manage to score two other runs, snapping their six game winning streak and losing their first game to a team in the American League East this season.
“When you’re clicking on all cylinders, good things happen”, Vogt said. Gray went seven complete, allowing three runs on six Jays hits.
Still, Toronto fought back gamely, scoring singles in the sixth and seventh before Kevin Pillar found a hole through the left side on a seeing-eye ground ball with the bases loaded that scored two and cut the score to 8-5. He also made a pair of diving catches in left, one on Chris Coghlan in the fifth and another on Khris Davis in the ninth.
With one out in the first, Chris Coghlan was hit by a pitch for the A’s first baserunner and moved to second on a base hit by Josh Reddick. However, he was given very little opportunity at the major-league level by the Mariners, who gave him just 17 plate appearances in 2014 and 116 in 2015, the latter of which he did very little with.
“One of my best games”, Carrera said by way of summary through an interpreter. Sonny Gray did a great job yesterday.
Blue Jays first baseman Chris Colabello was suspended Friday for 80 games without pay after testing positive for the same anabolic steroid that caused Philadelphia pitcher Daniel Stumpf to be disciplined last week.
The Mariners tweeted that Hisashi Iwakuma (0-2, 4.50 ERA) will start in Hernandez’s place. The Jays are on a stretch of 16 consecutive games with no off days, ending April 28. He got two quick outs, but a walk and a single led manager Bob Melvin to replace him with Sean Doolittle, and the lefty also had control issues. Athletics relievers had stranded a major league-best 28 inherited runners to begin the season.
Carrera was one of several changes to a Jays lineup without Colabello, Michael Saunders (hamstring) and Troy Tulowitzki (hip).
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Chavez, 32, spent parts of the past four seasons with the A’s, including the entirety of the last two years in the starting rotation.
