Navarro spent two seasons with the Blue Jays before signing with the White Sox prior to the 2015 season.
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If the Blue Jays defeat the Twins on Sunday it will give them a 4-2 home stand before they travel to Baltimore for a three-game series against the Orioles, who are third in the AL East.
Stroman induced a Juan Centeno groundout and then had Danny Santana pop out to centre field before Dozier struck again with a two-run double to make it 5-0 for the Twins.
Dozier’s two-run double gave him a career-best 78 RBIs.
Josh Donaldson walked with one out in the sixth and scored on Encarnacion’s 36th home run of the season, cutting the Twins’ lead to 5-3. He hadn’t connected since July 1 before his first-inning drive Friday night.
ROCKIES 9, NATIONALS 4 (11): Charlie Blackmon hit two home runs, including the go-ahead shot in the 11th inning, and visiting Colorado snapped a four-game losing streak.
“Now, I’m going to focus and try to get more than 10 – the more I can do to help my team”, Quintana said.
Starting in place of Hector Santiago (bruised left thumb), Dean allowed six runs and eight hits in three innings. “Similarly to (Pat) Light and (J.T.) Chargois, you want to get them into situations where they can get their feet wet before you put them in (big) situations, but sometimes the game doesn’t work out that way”.
The Toronto Blue Jays, who hold a one-game lead over Boston, won 8-7 over the Minnesota Twins today thanks to Melvin Upton Jr.’s “Little League HR” as the official MLB twitter account referred to it.
Sox general manager Rick Hahn said the team might not be finished making moves before the end of the month.
“I kind of knew it would be a triple once it got by him”, Upton Jr. said, “but rounding second I saw (third base coach Luis Perez) kept waving me and I kept going”. He’s been a slow mover through the Jay system, reaching AA for the first time earlier this season.
NOTES: Toronto 2B Devon Travis (sore right ring finger) returned to the lineup Saturday.
Minnesota Twins manager Paul Molitor sits in the dugout before baseball game action against the Toronto Blue Jays in Toronto, Friday, Aug. 26, 2016.
Twins 2010 first-round draft pick Alex Wimmers was in uniform Friday and poised to make his major league debut out of the bullpen.
What he did not see was Kepler kicking the ball as he made a sliding attempt to pursue it. Kevin Pillar, who had doubled, scored the tying run on Upton’s hit. The 41-year-old knuckleballer continued his recent good fortune by permitting two runs on six hits in 6 2/3 innings in a 7-2 triumph over the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday.
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Turner, 25, has gone 3-1 with a 1.33 ERA and 70 strikeouts in 54 innings of relief with three minor-league teams this season.
