Manager John Gibbons said Dickey was “fantastic” after giving up a two-run homer to Angels rookie Nick Buss in the second.
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Two starts ago in Cleveland, Skaggs gave up 10 hits and seven runs because too many of his pitches were in the zone.
The Blue Jays are now 70-54 and tied atop the American League East division with the Boston Red Sox.
Martin entered the L.A. series as the team’s most risky hitter of late, and on his best run of the season, having homered in five of his past seven contests. “He’s certainly not overmatched”. “Whether it’s a release point issue, whether it’s a mechanical adjustment or whatever it is, he’s a hair off right now and he’s not able to make the pitches he needs to”.
The Angels have lost 11 straight road games, the most since they lost 14 road games in a row April 29-June 8, 1969.
“Then he kind of put it in cruise control, ” Gibbons said. A troy Tulowitzki double in the fifth brought home another run before a Melvin Upton Jr. sac fly extended the league to four with Martin hustling home. Skaggs (1-2, 5.19 ERA, 1.577 WHIP, 9.3 K/9) is just returning from UCL replacement surgery that took him out of action since 2014. Los Angeles amassed 17 hits and six walks with Mike Trout going solo and scoring twice with Albert Pujols going 4-4 with a homer and three RBI’s while CJ Cron knocked in two. “He looks like he belongs here”.
OF Jose Bautista (left knee) was cleared to come off the DL on Thursday after participating in a simulated game at Toronto’s spring training facility in Dunedin, Florida.
Toronto Blue Jays president Mark Shapiro continued to clean house on Monday, firing minor league pitching coordinator Sal Fasano, according to Shi Davidi of Sportsnet.
“He’ll get his fair share of DH (designated hitter), no doubt about it, but he won’t strictly be limited to that but we’ll guard him”, Gibbons said.
The Los Angeles Angels are struggling to get their arms and bats on the same page and that makes wins hard to come by.
Josh Donaldson was caught stealing in the fifth, snapping a streak of 23 consecutive successful attempts.
TORONTO-This past weekend, the Toronto Blue Jays, who now sit tied atop the American League East with the Boston Red Sox, and the Cleveland Indians, who lead the Detroit Tigers by 7.5 games in the American League Central, played three closely contested games at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio in what could be very well be a preview of a potential 2016 American League playoff matchup.
Right-handed pitcher Ryan Tepera was optioned to triple-A Buffalo in a corresponding move. He had allowed more than three earned runs in just two of his first 20 starts of the season. Marco Estrada (7-5, 3.20 ERA) is due to start Wednesday night for Toronto.
Angels: RHP Matt Shoemaker (7-13, 4.14) is 1-1 with an 8.38 ERA in two career games against Toronto.
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“We’ve been waiting a long time for that guy to break out”, second baseman Darwin Barney said.
