The home run in the seventh inning was his 33rd of the season, and he leads the American League with 97 RBIs.
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“We hit some home runs”, Gibbons said, when asked what the difference was between this win and other recent games. He took Will Harris deep in the ninth inning for his 32nd home run of the season. The Orioles entered play Sunday with 174.
For Osuna, it was his 26th save of the year and the 46th of his career, tying the Major League Baseball record for most saves before a player’s 22nd birthday, matching Terry Forster’s mark.
Toronto put up another three spot in the eighth, increasing its lead to seven.
“He didn’t quite have the finish on his pitches”, manager A.J. Hinch said. The eight strikeouts were Stroman’s third-highest total this season, but perhaps more importantly, he did not walk a batter for only the third time all year (though he did drill Marwin Gonzalez on the knee early on, forcing him to leave the game).
Tulowitkzi went 3 for 4 with three RBI. Carlos Correa is sitting on 117 hits with 58 runs and 82 RBI with 18 homers. “Me and (Russell Martin) were connecting pretty well”. “It felt good for sure”.
Fiers has faced Toronto once this season, taking the loss August 4 after allowing five hits and two runs while striking out seven in six innings.
Altuve has reached safely in 43 straight road games. As soon as I saw (Teoscar Hernadez) running back, it didn’t look like he was going to catch it that was good enough. They eventually loaded the bases before Josh Donaldson walked with the bases loaded, and Encarnacion followed with another RBI sacrifice fly, to make it 9-2. He doubled and scored in the fifth, then homered in the seventh.
At Kansas City last Saturday, he permitted the Royals nine hits, one walk and four runs in six innings while striking out three.
Fiers has surrendered five home runs in his past two outings.
“They made me pay in that one inning”, Fiers said. “A couple of swings and the game is changed”.
According to oddsmakers from online sports book BetDSI, the Blue Jays are -153 money line favorites versus the Astros, who have odds of +138 to pull off the upset. Dave Stieb and former Cy Young award winners Pat Hentgen and Roy Halladay all threw out ceremonial first pitches.
Martin and Michael Saunders (20) are the second pair of Canadian teammates to hit 10 or more home runs in a season. Corey Koskie (25) and Justin Morneau (19) did it in 2004 for the Minnesota Twins.
The Astros also will probably again be without outfielder Jake Marisnick who missed his third straight game with a right groin strain. Houston is off Monday.
Astros: LHP Dallas Keuchel (7-11, 4.56) faces Cardinals LHP Jamie Garcia (9-8, 3.93) on Tuesday.
TIGERS 7, RANGERS 0: Michael Fulmer pitched a four-hitter in Detroit’s second straight shutout of Texas in Detroit.
Blue Jays: Toronto opens a three-game series in NY against the Yankees on Monday. RHP R.A Dickey (8-12, 4.61) starts against RHP Chad Green (1-2, 4.94).
Houston had tied the game an inning later on a Stroman throwing mistake, his third error over his past two starts, and Mike Fiers struck out the side in the bottom of that frame and had an easy third, before some less than stellar Astros defence gave the Jays a 2-1 lead in the fourth that the team only increased from there. Martin, the Blue Jays catcher, made a spectacular catch by reaching over the Astros’ dugout barrier on a foul by Alex Bregman for the second out.
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The 24-year-old displayed that he still has plenty of spring in his step, mostly foiling the Astros over seven strong innings to help pace the Blue Jays (66-51) to a 4-2 comeback victory over the Astros before another soldout crowd of over 47,000.
