With the Toronto Blue Jays bullpen still reeling from a Canada Day marathon, the club needed another deep outing on Sunday from their starter.
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Carlos Santana also homered for Cleveland (49-31).
So the Blue Jays can continue their homestand Monday night against the Kansas City Royals feeling a little more comfortable than they did when the Indians hit town at the start of the holiday weekend.
The right-hander battled through the injury for five innings on Saturday afternoon, surrendering three earned runs on five hits, while striking out seven in the Blue Jays’ 9-6 American League baseball win over the Cleveland Indians.
Jason Grilli (1-0) worked a clean eighth inning for the victory while Dan Otero (2-1) shouldered the loss. “The explanation they gave us was that his arm got in there before I tagged him”, Gimenez said. And we caught a break.
The Rays had held the Tigers to four hits entering the ninth before reliever Ryan Garton then gave up four singles without recording an out, and Erasmo Ramirez (7-7) gave up two more hits, then a bases-loaded walk to tie the game. Josh Donaldson matched his season high with four hits on Sunday.
Zach McAllister, who pitched one inning of relief Friday, started for Cleveland.
REDS 9, NATIONALS 4: Tucker Barnhart singled home the tiebreaking run in the 10th inning to lead Cincinnati to a victory over Washington, snapping the Reds’ five-game losing streak. He’s made three starts since then, but his back got progressively worse, culminating in Saturday’s hard outing.
“I definitely thought I had him in the leg”, Gimenez said.
“These guys are exhausted but [still] showing up, playing defence with a lot of energy. I feel good about doing my part, but everybody else today did theirs, too”.
METS 4, CUBS 3: Jake Arrieta lost a regular-season road start for the first time in 14 months when Neil Walker hit a two-run homer and Travis d’Arnaud blooped a two-run single that pushed NY to its third straight win over the Cubs.
“The biggest challenge, long innings like that, was just staying loose”, Happ said. Wherever you want them.
Quintana (6-8) allowed two hits and one run while fanning four for his first win since May 8. Michael Saunders added a two-run double off Tommy Hunter before Roberto Osuna came on for his 16th save. Since coming from the Colorado Rockies nearly a year ago he has been troubled by injuries.
Far more important to Tulowitzki was continuing to deliver at the plate.
Miami’s J.T. Realmuto homered and drove in two runs as the Marlins beat Atlanta 5-2 in a game played at a U.S. Army post where the ballpark was built from scratch in less than four months.
“[Donaldson] was talking to me in the dugout, saying, ‘How did you do that?”
Taijuan Walker made a triumphant return to the mound, and Seattle teammate Seth Smith hit a two-run homer as the Mariners ended Baltimore’s seven-game winning streak. “It makes it fun”.
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Major League Baseball has suspended Toronto Blue Jays star Edwin Encarnacion for making contact with umpire Vic Carapazza during an argument Friday. In the eighth, Gimenez allowed an RBI double to Encarnacion, who drove in three run in the game, an RBI single to Martin and a two-run homer to Smoak, his ninth of the season.Left-hander Aaron Loup pitched a ideal ninth for Toronto.NOTES: Indians 3B Juan Uribe (right hand) was scratched from the lineup Sunday and replaced by INF/OF Jose Ramirez.
