Batting a collective.228, the unit was dealt another blow when first baseman Chris Colabello was suspended 80 games Friday for testing positive for an anabolic steroid. The Athletics added two runs in the top of the ninth, though, to put the game out of reach and extend their winning streak to six games.
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“It just felt they were taking good swings on everything”, Sanchez said. I have a lot of confidence that we’re going to make the adjustments that are necessary. Chris Coghlan hit a three-run home run and Stephen Vogt had three hits as Oakland won their sixth straight.
During the last 10 games, they averaged 0.0 runs per game, above their 0.0 season average.
“I was just trying to not get him extended, trying to run it in and ran it in too far”, Hendriks said.
“There’s no excuse for an outing like that…”
Oakland had to settle for runs in the first, fourth and seventh.
Oakland jumped ahead 1-0 in the second inning as left fielder Khris Davis to Hutchison yard to right centre to give the A’s a 1-0 lead.
Blue Jays: SS Troy Tulowitzki (hip) and OF Michael Saunders (hamstring) got the day off…. Catcher Russell Martin returned, shrugging off a sore neck that cut his Friday night early.
“This is obviously an unfortunate situation that we are in with Chris”, Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins said in a statement. “But our thoughts are with him”.
“You never know”, shrugged Tulowitzki, who had been struggling mightily at the dish, entering the game with 19 whiffs on two-strike counts over 38 at-bats.
“I didn’t have my fastball all day long”, Bassitt said. It wasn’t anything that was alarming. “I hope that before anyone passes judgement on me they can take a look at the man that I am, and everything that I have done to get to where I am in my career”.
The biggest beneficiary is Justin Smoak, who moves from a timeshare to being the everyday first baseman.
Bassitt held Kansas City to two runs through seven innings in Oakland’s 3-2 win Sunday.
Snell permitted one run and two hits in five innings, striking out six and walking one. Then Oakland retaliated. Toronto finally capitulated. “That’s what we envisioned to be the strength of our offense, the length of it”.
Oakland got to Sanchez early with one run in the first and three in the second thanks to Coghlan’s second homer in as many nights.
J.A. Happ allowed three runs and seven hits in seven innings to win his third straight start.
The 25-year-old was recalled from Triple-A Buffalo to make a spot start and give Toronto’s starters an extra day of rest, and he received tons of praise for his effort.
Happ (3-0) gave up three runs on seven hits in seven innings, with one strikeout and one walk in his 200th career appearance.
Jesse Chavez and Brett Cecil each got two outs, Drew Storen worked the eighth and Roberto Osuna finished for his sixth save.
“For him to try to go out on the field what was going on was hard”, Pillar said.
In the game Duck Hunt, which came out in 1985, the player attempts to shoot ducks out of the sky while their trusty basset hound would fetch anything they successfully shot. “I kind of tried to challenge them”, Gray said.
Toronto loaded the bases twice against Gray in the sixth but managed just a sacrifice fly by Bautista.
Darwin Barney’s RBI single off Gray in the seventh marked the first time in six games that Oakland had allowed three earned runs. The Jays lost a video replay in the ninth with Carrera ruled not to have beaten the throw at first.
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Toronto, which led the league last season with 891 runs (5.5 per game), has scored 70 in 18 games (3.9 per game) this year. It also means Colabello will fall short of the service time required to become eligible for salary arbitration next winter.
