“Even though we played a long one yesterday, guys were out there playing with energy”, Davis said. Rajai Davis hit for the cycle for the Indians (49-31).
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Cron and Perez each homered during an 11-run seventh inning. Hunter came on to face Donaldson, who hit a single into shallow center.
Shuck’s two-out single drove in Avisail Garcia. First baseman Justin Smoak hit his ninth home run, outfielder Michael Saunders hit two doubles and third baseman Josh Donaldson had four hits.
Francona was not convinced about the result of the review.
Man! Was I ever frustrated as the game went on for nearly six or seven hours. “But I’ll take that problem, if you want to call it a problem”.
“They are the ones that control the decision”, Encarnacion said of the league office, “but they know I am not that type of person”.
The only possible way Carrera could have been safe was if Gimenez missed the tag, but the replay explanation contained no mention of Gimenez missing the tag and none of the replay angles I saw showed any space between Gimenez’s glove and Carrera’s right ankle. “As of now, from what I’ve seen, I don’t know how they did that”.
“I think it was a combination: locating the fastball, it’s always where you start and throwing off-speed, off of that”, he said. “It hasn’t really bothered me”.
The popular right-hander set a major-league record with 12 consecutive starts of six or more innings and five or less hits, but began experiencing pain two starts ago while swinging a bat during an inter-league series in Philadelphia.
Wainwright (7-5) allowed seven hits, struck out five and walked two. A cortisone shot fixed a similar problem for Estrada during the spring and he’s hopeful another shot can help him now, though he underwent an MRI today to check for any damage.
Throughout the argument with Carapazza, Encarnacion held both of his hands behind his back to avoid said contact, but unfortunately for him, “contact with an umpire” has very little room for interpretation. “I didn’t command it all day and that makes everything else tough to throw for strikes as well”. “He left tied, five innings were definitely what we needed”. Starting pitcher Stephen Strasburg left the game with a no-hitter still intact after 6.2 innings. As for Sunday, well, let’s just say momentum has a big head start on Kluber and his teammates. I feel it while I’m getting loose, then once I warm up it kind of goes away, and then once the game gets going, the later it gets the more it starts to lock up again. Not only was it the Blue Jays’ largest margin of victory this season, the 17 runs were a season high and the eight runs scored in the sixth inning were the most in a single inning this season.
Padres 2, Yankees 1: Melvin Upton Jr. homered on the first pitch of the ninth to give San Diego a walk-off win.
Pittsburgh’s Adam Frazier tripled in the tying run in the sixth and then scored on Erik Kratz’s infield single to lift the Pirates to a 6-3 victory at Oakland. It was the third game-ending homer of the year for Upton, who homered into the second balcony on the Western Metal Supply Co. “I could never hit a home run on my bobblehead day, ‘” Tulowitzki added.
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Joe Biagini hit Jose Uribe with a pitch with the bases loaded to trim Toronto’s lead to 5-4.
