Tulowitzki gave the Blue Jays a 2-0 lead with a solo shot over the left-field wall in the third inning.
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They added to both columns Wednesday night.
Jose Bautista hit a grand slam, Edwin Encarnacion and Josh Donaldson also homered and the Blue Jays beat the Minnesota Twins 9-7 for their fourth straight victory. He allowed six runs and five hits, including two home runs, and two walks.
Toronto’s baseball team, winners of five in a row and eight of nine after general manager Alex Anthopoulos pulled off a trade deadline week for the ages, is a going concern.
“He’s a guy that puts the ball in play and when he does get on base, he’s a pain in the ass because he can steal bases, he’s going to go first to third”.
“We’ve got a big series coming up, that’s not a secret, I don’t think it makes or breaks our season”, Buehrle said. Somehow, we’re going to find a way to win this game, ‘ and we do.
Left-hander Mark Buehrle barely broke a sweat on the mound, allowing three runs on five hits in seven innings.
Hughes said after the loss that the early home runs by Donaldson and Tulowitzki “kind of took me off my game a little bit”.
But the 29-year-old lefty bore down, dialled up his fastball to 97 m.p.h. and – with the sold-out crowd on its feet – gutted his way through the next three batters to strand the runners and keep the game tied.
In Arlington, Texas, Chris Gimenez hit the deciding home run and the Rangers held on to complete a three-game sweep of AL West-leading Houston. Earning his 12th win of the season, Buehrle is now 12-5 in 2015 with a 3.34 ERA and 72 strikeouts. Toronto, despite its recent good play, is just 22-31 on the road. “We’ve been the team doing the chasing the last couple of years and we know what the difference is”. The Twins will decide Thursday whether to give him another start.
1 run, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. The second-deck drive traveled an estimated 462 feet.
Price has surrendered 16 runs in 4 1/3 innings in his last two starts against the Yankees. And on August 27, 2014, Price coughed up eight runs in two innings vs. New York. Gibbons already had been ejected in the seventh inning. Dickey has won his last three starts, but two of those came against light-hitting Oakland and Philadelphia.
Donaldson’s miscue notwithstanding, the Twins hit Hutchison hard that inning.
After entering the series with a one-game edge in the second wild-card race, the Twins head to Cleveland three games behind the Jays and having slid behind the Baltimore Orioles and Texas Rangers as well. Sanchez has pitched in four of the past six games and was likely to be rested Wednesday and Thursday, Gibbons said. He became the 13th pitcher with a save against every major league team.
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Once Sanchez is back, the Blue Jays could look to shed a reliever and go back to the more traditional seven-man bullpen. – Twins OF Byron Buxton (sprained left thumb) will begin a rehab assignment with Class AAA Rochester today. It’s been years since the excitement around this ball club has even been close to what it is right now, and it’s all about to culminate on one of baseball’s greatest stages: Yankee Stadium.
