Dioner Navarro had plenty of reasons to smile after the White Sox beat the Blue Jays on Wednesday. Texas scored only five runs during its four-game skid. Chicago’s three-game sweep was the first by a visitor at Toronto since the Los Angeles Angels from September 10-12, 2013. Like Chris Sale on Tuesday, Quintana held the Jays to just four hits, while striking out 10.
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Jesse Chavez relieved, and Austin Jackson tripled.
The Blue Jays have struck out 217 times this season, the second-highest tally in the majors, trailing only the Houston Astros, who have fanned 224 times.
Meanwhile the White Sox were even more confused and confounded by Estrada’s command of his fastball and cutter, often punctuated by that world-class changeup.
NEW YORK – Pinch-hitter Yoenis Cespedes tied the score with a three-run homer on the first pitch he saw in four days and David Wright laced the go-ahead RBI single three batters later as New York stormed back in the seventh inning to beat Cincinnati at Citi Field. They simply ran into a hot team in the White Sox, who are pitching better than nearly anybody at the moment. He also lined a three-run homer off reliever Christian Bergman in the sixth. Victor Martinez reached base four times.
Game 2 sees lefty J.A. Happ (3-0, 2.42) square off against the struggling Chris Archer (1-4, 5.47), while Marcus Stroman (3-0, 4.37) closes out the series against Jake Odorizzi (0-1, 3.58). Tulowitzki had played 59 games at shortstop and had gone 258 total chances without committing an error.
Arrieta and Jungmann will instead face off Thursday afternoon. A makeup date was not announced.
Indians 6, Twins 5 • Francisco Lindor drove in three runs and Cleveland spoiled the big league debut of Jose Berrios for host Minnesota.
The little catcher with the egg-shaped body drilled his old partner for a two-run triple that sent the Chicago White Sox on their way to a 4-0 victory and a sweep of this three-game series. Brett Lawrie walked.Avisail Garcia struck out, but Navarro, Estrada’s Toronto battery mate last season, tripled to center on a 2-2 count to give the White Sox at 2-0 lead. In his last start against Toronto on July 7, Quintana went eight innings but was done in by Josh Donaldson’s fourth-inning homer that was the difference in a 2-1 loss. 3-0 Sox headed to the bottom of the 7 inning. They have carried 13 pitchers for most of that period.Colabello tested positive for dehydrochlormethyltestosterone, with the Blue Jays player putting an emphasis on the small amount found.Garcia hit his third home run, a drive that smacked the facing of the second level beyond the center-field wall.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Tampa Bay is back at. However, that had to do with the Chicago Cubs, losers in the NLCS last season.
“Navarro knows us pretty well”, said Estrada.
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The Pittsburgh Pirates blew an early seven-run lead but salvaged a 9-8 win over the Colorado Rockies in 12 innings Wednesday night on Jordy Mercer’s two-out double. Frazier delivered his second hit – and Chicago’s second hit – to lead off. Melky Cabrera then stroked a slow bouncer to short that the Jays failed to turn into a double play, getting only the lead runner.
