According to oddsmakers from online sports book Bovada.lv, the Blue Jays are -130 money line favorites over the White Sox, who have odds of +120 to pull off the upset.
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No wonder the Jays made a decision to put him into the bullpen.
Avisail Garcia struck out, but Navarro tripled to center on a 2-2 pitch to give the White Sox at 2-0 lead.
I guess we just have to wait and see what happens. Shut out for the first time this season. Strikeouts aided Quintana tonight, as he struck out ten Blue Jays hitters in six innings of work.
Hill (3-2), a journeyman left-hander on his seventh major league team, allowed just four singles and didn’t issue a walk while striking out eight.
Perhaps more concerning is that Estrada, who began the season on the shelf due to a back injury, was favouring and rubbing his right shoulder quite a bit during the game, and in the dugout.
When Dioner Navarro broke the cardinal rule of “only throw the ball when your teammate is looking at you”, he tried to deflect blame to the fans. The Oakland Athletics smashed the Detroit Tigers 5-1, the Chicago Cubs beat the Milwaukee Brewers 4-3 for win number 15 of the season, while the Minnesota Twins edged the Cleveland Indians 6-5.
Wednesday’s shut-out marked the first time the Jays have gone scoreless since September 13 against the Yankees.
“It was a great matchup”, White Sox manager Robin Ventura said.
Navarro’s hit drove in Melky Cabrera and Brett Lawrie – both former Blue Jays themselves – to give Chicago a 2-0 lead. “It’s tough. I’ve got to find a way to arrest those big innings”. “I filled up that zero. I got the ball exactly where I wanted it and he just hit it. He’s a good hitter”.
Jesse Chavez relieved, and Austin Jackson tripled. It was the first ejection of the season for Gibbons, who came out and continued arguing with Tumpane and crew chief Dan Iassogna. 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. Besides the strikeouts they have been particularly dismal with runners on base and in scoring position, an area in which they led the majors last season. In all, 42 of their 82 runs have come after the sixth inning, more than any other AL team. He is 6-for-14 (.429) on his current streak. Donaldson returned to third base after starting at DH the previous two days.
Navarro is with the Chicago White Sox this season. His opponent will be RHP Tyler Wilson (1-0, 2.77).
The knuckleballer is winless in his last four outings and dropped to 2-6 in 12 career games against Chicago.
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Stephen Piscotty had four hits and two RBIs and Matt Carpenter and Matt Holliday had two RBIs apiece to help Wainwright (1-3) to his first victory since April 29, 2015. Sanchez allowed six runs in his last start, three more than he gave up in his three previous starts combined.
