“I just pitch. It’s out of my control”. “Hey, (it’s) one of those days where everybody gets caught”.
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For the most part, Miley did that.
Pirates 7, Phillies 4 – At Pittsburgh: Gregory Polanco and David Freese hit two-run singles during a five-run fifth inning to rally and Pittsburgh beat Philadelphia after top Pirates prospect Tyler Glasnow was removed with shoulder discomfort. “I’m moving in the right direction. I felt I wasn’t quiet as sharp as I was in my last outing (against the White Sox), but I was able to make some pitches and get out of most of the jams”.
“Neither one of them had pitched in a while”, Gibbons said. The right-hander is a free agent after the season, and was expected to be a significant addition to the back of the Jays’ bullpen.
None of this worked out for the Mariners. “I hit two guys with it. It took off inside to a couple lefties”.
The big left-hander’s record record improved to 13-3.
In the next inning, Encarnacion made a nice play on a hard Leonys Martin grounder to save a base hit.
Nelson Cruz struck out swinging on a full-count fastball that appeared outside.
“It’s going to be starting pitching that allows us to get on a streak and they have done it”, Mariners manager Scott Servais said. Seager chased Chavez with a homer to center, his 19th.
“I’m beating myself up a little bit less over poor performances”, he said. “I was trying to go up and away, and I fell down”.
The only Blue Jays pitchers not charged with a run were Pedro Morales, who came in to replace Dickey in the fourth, Bo Schultz, who relieved Chavez in the sixth, and Joe Biagini, who pitched a clean ninth.
Thole led off the inning with a double and advanced to third on a fielder’s choice, sliding under the tag of Mariners third baseman Seager.
In the sixth, Josh Donaldson grounded into a double-play but it brought home Josh Thole from third base to put Toronto ahead 2-0.
Cruz erased an early one-run deficit with a grand slam in the third inning against Toronto knuckleballer R.A. Dickey. “Whether it was the zone or our guys not seeing it well, but that’s more than what we usually see”.
Blue Jays: RHP Aaron Sanchez (10-1, 2.87) starts the opener of a three-game series against San Diego on Monday.
Zunino was thrown out easily.
“It was a ball in the dirt”, Zunino said, “and I thought it was a good count for a breaking ball”. That was the Mariners’ only hit of the game.
Happ battled all afternoon – three times in the first four innings he allowed the lead off runner on base only to shut down the Mariners offence the rest of the way.
Every Mariner in the starting lineup had at least one hit. “Hopefully, that was the wake-up call we need”, said Cruz, who is 10-for-22 in his last six games and has 25 home runs this season.
Evan Gattis, Astros: “El Oso Blanco” connected on two home runs, good for four RBIs in a 7-2 win over the Angels. Nelson Cruz in 2011. Cecil picked up two strike outs and got Martin to ground out to first to end the seventh.
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He lasted just three-plus innings, giving up six runs on seven hits, paving the way for a blowout win for the Seattle Mariners over the Toronto Blue Jays 14-5.
