“We definitely took a punch this weekend”, Rodriguez said.
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The best player on the team has been Josh Donaldson, who is third in the majors with 31 home runs. And those Yankees, who just a few weeks ago had a commanding seven-game lead in the AL East, now lead by just 1.5 games, their smallest lead since July 7. “It seems more attainable”. I said one day I was going to put it back when I played there professionally. The Jays have scored 597 runs, which is nearly 70 more than the New York Yankees, who are second with 529. Around now is the ideal time, with momentum building as we near the postseason. However, the biggest nightmare of the Blue Jays’ lineup is someone who hasn’t been mentioned yet, and he has clearly been their MVP so far this season. He’s an optimist. He sees the Yankees in first place and says they control their own destiny.
But now we’re into the month of August, and three games against a team like Toronto can be a legitimate difference maker.
But this day was no fun at all.
After Sunday’s 2-0 shutout of the Yankees, in fact, the Jays are 11-1 since acquiring Tulowitzki.
But heaving back home run balls hit by opposing players is a time-honoured convention, rooted in Chicago, where Cubs fans have done it for decades. I don’t see why not.
Marco Estrada (10-6) threw 6 1/3 scoreless innings and lowered his ERA to 3.21. Working on four days rest, Tanaka also surrendered a single but no walks, while striking out five. The right-hander next pitches at home against Washington. “It’s been a tough spot for us”.
“We’re just on a nice little roll right now“, said Toronto manager John Gibbons, understating the obvious. Price, in his 15 innings, allowed just one earned run, six hits, and five walks while fanning 18 batters.
Toronto Blue Jays reliever Aaron Sanchez was suspended for three games after throwing a pitch at Kansas City Royals infielder Alcides Escobar on Sunday.
Yankees manager Joe Girardi, however, was not happy with the incident.
Will that become the norm?
Here is the statement that needs to be made: Not good enough!
Tanaka said through a translator he was “good to go”. His debut was the Jays’ most expensive home game of the season. Then in the top of the fourth, Bautista homered to left. The only Yankees run was scored by first baseman, Mark Teixeira in a controversial homerun to left field.
What this means is that the Blue Jays have been right there in nearly every single game.
Hawkins intends to retire at the end of this season, but his trade to the Blue Jays is turning out to be a nice going-away present. He aggravated it on a swing Saturday. However, their hot start to the second half plus the mediocrity of the AL East masked those inconsistencies and catapulted the Yankees to the top of the division. He said right now he expects it to be someone currently on the staff, making RHPs Bryan Mitchell and Adam Warren the most likely candidates. But while Andrews admitted Stroman is defying all the medical odds in his speedy recovery – he suffered major knee ligament damage in spring training – the Jays would be taking a huge risk in allowing him to pitch again this season.
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Baseball statheads have long known that a team’s run differential is generally a better predictor of future wins and losses than its record.
