BREWERS 6, NATIONALS 5: Chris Carter hit a three-run homer, Matt Garza pitched six innings for this first win of the season and host Milwaukee beat Washington. “But it’s a war of attrition, and thankfully we won it”. Lawrie is the first White Sox player to hit an inside-the-park home run since Scott Podsednik in 2009.
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Dioner Navarro, J.B. Shuck, Tim Anderson, Alex Avila and Adam Eaton all went deep for the White Sox, who matched the club record set at the Kansas City Athletics on April 23, 1955.
How often has a team hit seven home runs in a loss, you ask?
For weeks, Chicago White Sox fans have waited for the 2016 offense to show up. Five Jays recorded multiple hits, including Ezequiel Carrera who is filling in for the injured Jose Bautista in right field.
“You don’t want to think when you’re out there, but I’ve been struggling so obviously I’ve been thinking in between starts, just doing everything I can to get myself where I need to be, but for the most part when I’m out there, I’m not thinking, I’m just trying to execute my pitches and get on the same wavelength as Russ (Martin)”, said Stroman. Lawrie’s homer in the second hit the top of the left field wall and bounced back into play and was ruled an inside-the-park deal, a career first for the Canadian and the first inside the park job allowed by the Jays since Chris Singleton recorded one against Brett Cecil on August 2, 2014 in Houston.
“I’m always talking to myself out there trying to convince myself that I’m good”, Dickey said of his Bizarro World second inning.
Marlins 9, Cubs 6: Justin Bour and Giancarlo Stanton each drove in three runs for Miami, and Paul Clemens got his first big league win in more than three years. It was ruled an inside-the-park drive, though second base umpire Ted Barrett signaled for a home run while the ball was in the air.
“That was frustrating”, said Dickey.
YANKEES 2, TWINS 1: Starlin Castro drove home the tiebreaking run in the eighth with a sharp one-hopper and scored an error on shortstop Eduardo Escobar as NY edged the visiting Twins with more dominant pitching from the back end of its bullpen. “But even after the three home runs in a row, I felt great about my stuff”. He walked four and struck out four. “I threw a good cutter down and away and it hit right where I wanted it to and his bat missed it”. “I felt like I was 38 again”. But Encarnacion’s had his third hit and second double in Toronto’s two-run ninth.
First baseman Edwin Encarnacion led the offensive parade for the Jays, going 3-for-4, with two doubles and four RBI. But Encarnacion’s had his third hit and second double in Toronto’s two-run ninth.
2B Brett Lawrie homered twice Saturday against Toronto for his first career multi-home run game. Anderson homered in the seventh off Drew Storen. Eaton homered in the bottom of the inning.
“I didn’t know where he was exactly in my peripherals”, Stroman said of Saladino on the Eaton bunt. “Unfortunately, they were all solo, but we battled”.
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Blue Jays: 1B Justin Smoak was out of the lineup and scheduled to get an X-ray after taking a foul ball off his left knee Wednesday.
