He was dropped in the order after 12 games.
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And the Blue Jays were able to level their record (15-15) at.500, a psychological boost if anything.
Blue Jays: LHP J.A. Happ (3-0, 2.76) has worked at least six innings and allowed three runs or fewer in all five starts this season.
Encarnacion’s shot brought in three of the runs and he finished 3-for-4 with a walk, a home run and two doubles, driving in six runs.
Encarnacion also hit a double in the sixth inning against left-hander Cesar Ramos who pitched 4 1/3 scoreless innings after replacing Holland in the six-run third. Bautista drew a two-out walk and Encarnacion followed with a homer into the second deck, his fourth. I like to punish myself by seeing that.
Texas lost 3-1 in 10 innings Tuesday on Justin Smoak’s second home run of the game. The Blue Jays managed only three extra base hits against Holland.
Holland, who hadn’t surrendered more than three earned runs in a start this season, entered the night with a 2.48 ERA. And even when you start to point towards our bullpen, I wouldn’t want to break down individuals when I’m speaking of concern. “Obviously that’s uncharacteristic of him but they’ve got some good hitters over there”.
The interleague duel between two underachieving teams in the Blue Jays and Dodgers highlights a great pitching matchup between Kenta Maeda (3-1, 1.41 ERA) and Marcus Stroman (4-0, 3.77 ERA).
For Ross Atkins, the rookie Blue Jays general manager, the “it’s early” fallback has about run its course as the regular season moves into its second month. Still, for him it was about time his club broke out.
“We’ve got to find a way to dig deep and find a little resilience here”, Banister said. He allowed three earned runs, five hits and struck out seven with one walk. Old friend Russell Martin is down to.187/.253/.200, though he has consecutive multi-hit games and is 5-for-11 over the last three contests.
“We’ve been waiting on that outburst, ” manager John Gibbons said. He threw 75 pitches and didn’t strike anyone out. This normally wouldn’t be a highlight, but I’m trying to shine some light on the little bright spots. 236 but went 5 for 8 with two homers and two doubles in the final two against the Rangers.
Toronto tied the game in the ninth inning, though, and won it in the 10th inning.
Only when the game got out of hand and third baseman Adrian Beltre was given a rest did he get to play. He felt discomfort in the knee on Saturday in the first game of his rehab assignment and it was stopped.
Notes: Carlos Delgado is Toronto’s all-time home run leader with 336 homers as a Blue Jay…
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Toronto does not fill these two vacancies just for the sake of filling them because, if another option is to come along the following week, it could force them to expose a rostered player they otherwise may not have.
