Rangers 5, Royals 3 – At Arlington, Texas: Mitch Moreland homered for the fifth time in his last five starts and Lucas Harrell (3-2) won in his Texas as the Rangers finished a four-game sweep of the World Series champions. Happ allowed three hits and walked three.
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Kevin Pillar had two hits and drove in four runs to match his career high. Major league RBI leader Edwin Encarnacion drove in his 89th run.
Jones’ three-run homer came off Jesse Chavez and also helped the Orioles (59-45) avoid a three-game sweep.
“That was the best effort we could muster up and it wasn’t much”, Trumbo said.
Tulowitzki hit his 18th home run of the season on Tillman’s first pitch in the Toronto fourth, a drive off the facing of the fourth deck at the Rogers Centre.
“We’re starting to play some good baseball, and that’s really what it comes down to, playing good baseball at the right time”, said Pillar.
Troy Tulowitzki suffered a chip fracture to the middle part of his right thumb after getting hit by a 93 miles per hour Chris Tillman fastball Sunday, leaving his status uncertain and the Toronto Blue Jays in a roster bind. Gibbons said Donaldson had tightness in his hamstring.
“We’ll see how he feels tomorrow and the next couple days”, manager John Gibbons said.
Alvarez connected on an 0-2 pitch with two out in the second, his 13th. Baltimore pitchers then walked four of the next five batters, including an intentional walk to Michael Saunders.
“If I was able to go, I definitely would have been in there”, he said.
The first jam Sanchez experienced came in the fifth when he walked Wieters with two out and then gave up a single to Schoop.
“I don’t know, you’d have to ask them”, Tulowitzki said when asked if the Orioles were pitching him up and in because of the homer. They spoil a lot of pitches and make you work.
The loss was the first for Yovani Gallardo (3-3) versus the Blue Jays, who had been 4-0 with a 1.78 earned-run average heading into the game.
JONES HITS 20: Jones joined Mark Trumbo, Chris Davis and Manny Machado with at least 20 home runs.
“We came here in first place, we’re going to try to maintain it. It’s going to be tough”.
METS 6, ROCKIES 4: Neil Walker hit a go-ahead, three-run homer in the seventh inning that rallied NY past Colorado and prevented a season sweep, in NY.
Wade Miley (7-8) took a no-hit bid into the seventh inning before allowing Kris Bryant’s single. On a 1-1 count, Martin ripped the left-hander’s third pitch to left-center field to score Shawn O’Malley and Nori Aoki.
GIANTS 3, NATIONALS 1 (at San Francisco) – Matt Cain threw five hitless innings for his 100th career victory and San Francisco held Washington to three hits.
A walk and a double put runners at second and third with nobody out, and while the O’s didn’t deliver a hit, they made do with a pair of productive outs.
San Francisco loaded the bases against former Giants reliever Yusmeiro Petit (3-2) with one out in the seventh to bring up Panik. The Birds needed to beat Toronto in their ballpark, setting up the remaining six games against these bad birds.
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In addition, the 33-year old has pitched 131.0 innings (16th in the AL), thrown 110 strikeouts (tied for 17th in AL) and has a whip of 1.16 (10th in the AL).
