He took worm burner line drive off his left foot in the sixth inning off the bat of Calhoun that went for a hit and loaded the bases for L.A. with nobody out.
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Pujols leads the Angels with 99 RBI.
“You win games by scoring more runs than the other team and my on-base percentage, RBI’s and runs scored per games played are not bad at all and I just want to finish off strong”, Bautista said in the dugout before Thursday’s game. “If that ball doesn’t hit off my foot there, (that’s a) potential double play and that inning looks a whole lot different”.
I can’t recall when the Blue Jays first took up their cause against me, but I can remember some of the particular bumps and bruises along the way.
Trout was 3 for 4 and drove in four total runs as the Angels (54-73) won the three-game series.
The Los Angeles Angels are not going anywhere this season, but Albert Pujols keeps moving up. Unfortunately for the Jays and their impressive left-hander, J.A. Happ, the streak that moves forward intact involves his inability to beat the Angels, having lost all five of his career starts with a 7.83 ERA over 23 innings. He allowed four runs and six hits in five innings. It was the first time since June 28 that he failed to pitch past the fifth inning, and first time since June 6 that he shouldered a loss.
The Toronto Blue Jays are among the remaining major league clubs that can still say team goals are the priority and really mean it. “I think the big thing was walking Petit, that kind of opened up some things”.
“But I thought he was good, his stuff was good tonight”.
Josh Donaldson homered for the Blue Jays, who missed an opportunity to open a one-game lead over Boston in the AL East.
“It sure seemed like it the last two nights they were finding holes and we were making good contact but hitting it right at them”, Happ said. “I hate saying the phrase but that’s baseball. That is baseball. We’ve got to turn the page and get back at them and do something to turn the energy back up”. Gibbons sounded like he preferred that as a precautionary measure for at least the next little while to allow Bautista to ease back into the lineup without putting too much wear and tear on the knee injury that necessitated a disabled list stint in the first place.
Estrada was pitching on seven days’ rest with the Blue Jays employing a six-man rotation and due to days off in the schedule.
CINCINNATI – Yu Darvish hit only the second homer by a Rangers pitcher and Adrian Beltre hit a tiebreaking double in the eighth inning for a win over Cincinnati.
The Angels put the game away with two more in the seventh as the previously red-hot Joe Biagini put a pair of Angels on with a single and a beautifully executed bunt single. Jose Valdez came on in relief and got a ground-ball out from Darwin Barney.
“There’s no doubt we have cooled off”, Gibbons said.
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NOTES: Bautista had been out of the lineup with a knee injury since August 10. “Got two of the best hitters on one team and made good pitches to them, and they hit them out”. He became just the fifth player ever to have 100 RBIs in 13 seasons, joining an elite class that includes Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, and Alex Rodriguez.
