Take a look around the league with Big League Stew’s daily wrap up. We’ll monitor him and see how he feels in Baltimore. However, acquiring All-Stars David Price and Troy Tulowitzki has bolstered the squad. But they have already squandered their cushion, and with the Blue Jays winning again Thursday-their 11th win in a row-the Yankees were guaranteed to spend another day out of first place.
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[Play a Daily Fantasy contest for cash today!]. Recently named Triple-A player of the week, Bird torched Triple-A pitching in 2015, his first year playing above Double-A.
Charles LeClaire/USA Today Sports Jacoby Ellsbury gets two hits and scores a run in the game. Buehrle kept the A’s off the board until the eighth, when he finally appeared to lose some steam. He is 6-11 with a 3.73 ERA.
The best outcome was Gardner was not hurt although he had a small bump on his head and the fact the Yankees could joke about the weird incident.
The seventh-inning song about our beloved boys in blue has been a staple at every Jays game since the 80s, but did you know it wasn’t the original anthem?
The usual suspects, surprisingly, didn’t get it done on offense.
Thursday night against the Indians at Progressive Field, the Yankees showed signs of exiting the funk in time for a pressure-packed, three-game series against the sizzling Blue Jays in Toronto that opens Friday evening.
The win has the club sitting at the top of the AL East division with rivals New York Yankees (61-51) sitting one game back. That talk has seemed to quiet down as the Blue Jays began their winning streak.
Hutchison’s 11-2 record this season is a bizzarro world version of Nolan Ryan’s 1987 season and serves equally well as an exemplification of the limitations of the win-loss assessment.
The Cubs were led by their youngsters during the game.
The A’s are 21-40 in games decided by two runs or fewer.
In Minneapolis, Mitch Moreland drove in four runs on a career-high four hits, including a two-run homer to spark Texas.
Jorge Soler and Anthony Rizzo also got involved.
The Cubs jumped ahead in the fifth when Fowler homered to right.
With the win, Chicago improved to 65-48. “This is their time to shine, and I hope it happens this year”.
Amazingly, the Royals couldn’t hold on. We had one bad inning, we just didn’t put up any support for him. He failed to record an out. Oddly enough, FIP figures that Hutchison’s performance (3.93) might actually be better than that of Mark Buehrle (4.24).
The Washington Nationals better get things together soon. The veteran lefty stretched his unbeaten streak to five starts after allowing three runs in a solid seven inning stint in a victory versus Minnesota in his last time out.
“The rest of my body parts are healing up from getting worn out so I figured I needed to hang out with the trainers a little more and get some treatment”. He also has five HRs, 19 RBIs while hitting.245. Anthony Rendon, Ryan Zimmerman, Jayson Werth and Ian Desmond went a combined 0 for 13 at the plate.
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They went into Yankee Stadium last weekend and poked the bear with a very sharp stick. “We wanted to at least wait until this morning to see how he felt but we had a pretty good idea last night he was not going to be able to start”. Check out our scoreboard.
