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Saturday’s Red Sox-Blue Jays lineups: Two hot starting pitchers face off
The Toronto Blue Jays haven’t been able to get a handle on their division rivals yet this month, and their inability to do so could be the very reason they are unable to defend their American League East title.
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Rick Porcello became the first 20-game victor in the major leagues this season as the Boston Red Sox crushed the Toronto Blue Jays 13-3 in the opener of a key three-game series Friday night at Rogers Centre. “And while that might be true, it’s unclear why the Jays thought it might be, as the release states, ‘the ideal gift for the Boston Red Sox’s own Big Papi'”.
NY also won six straight May 18-24 and remained two games back in the wild-card race and four behind in the AL East.
Although players would acknowledge that the meeting happened and said that it helped changed the atmosphere in the dugout, they were all tight-lipped about who called it, who spoke, and what exactly was said.
“Being aggressive, getting strike one”, said Happ. He explained that one can not just butter up the opposition and make him feel comfortable while Ortiz tries to take the division away from the Blue Jays in front of their own fans.
While no player would go into any particular detail about who put it together or what was said during the private session – it’s players-only for a reason, after all – in a pre-game interview with Sportsnet’s Hazel Mae, Jose Bautista said the gathering was used as a chance to “refocus”.
The Blue Jays took a 3-0 lead in the third on a bloop RBI single to enter by Jose Bautista.
Coming into September, the Jays had a two game lead over the Boston Red Sox in the American League East.
Lackey gave up two runs and four hits in six innings. Manager John Gibbons signalled for Joaquin Benoit from the bullpen to face Chris Young.
Most of the game featured a pitchers’ duel between Angels starter Tyler Skaggs and Rangers starter Yu Darvish. Unfortunately, the Red Sox could not break through as Jackie Bradley Jr struck out on three consecutive pitches to end the inning.
Porcello tossed seven innings of two-run ball, striking out seven and allowing just six hits to improve to 20-3 on the season.
INDIANS 6, TWINS 5: Mike Napoli hit a mammoth home run on the first pitch of the fifth inning to give Cleveland the lead, and the Indians hung on to beat the Minnesota Twins 6-5 on Friday night and maintain their six-game lead in the AL Central. Wieters notched his second multi-homer game of the season and sixth of his career.
J.A. Happ, however, has the power to get things moving back in the right direction shortly. “Definitely in a series like this you like to get off to a good start early in the ballgame”.
“The pitch to Upton was supposed to be up-and-away and I missed over the middle”.
The outcome was also a big relief for Melvin Upton Jr., although sometimes it is hard to tell.
The home run makes it the fourth time in Upton’s career that he’s had 20 home runs and 20 stolen bases.
Travis’s enthusiasm perhaps got the better of him in the Toronto third inning when he led off with a double.
The Blue Jays came out focused on this day, and it showed early. Francoeur’s hit deflected off the top of the glove of shortstop Corey Seager, who jumped as high as he could to try to make the play.
Pedroia responded for Boston in the first at bat of the sixth. Happ took a 3-1 lead into the 7th, the first four balls which were hit towards Bautista in right field (right after a prescient suggestion that Pompey go in for him as a defensive replacement).
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Bryant smacked his 37th homer off Joe Musgrove to the seats in left field to put the Cubs up 2-0 in the fifth inning.