“We have not had much success against Marco Estrada. they’re so risky and they wear down pitchers”.
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“This year, last year, the year before that”. He went 7 for 12 with four walks.
Alex Cobb went five solid innings during his first start in two years and Logan Morrison hit a go-ahead two-run homer for Tampa Bay.
But Troy Tulowitzki started a one-out rally in the seventh by poking a single through the open right side to knock a strong Chris Archer out of the game.
In other games, the Los Angeles Angels trounced the Seattle Mariners 10-3, the Baltimore Orioles defeated the New York Yankees 2-0, the Minnesota Twins toppled the Chicago White Sox 11-3, and the Arizona Diamondbacks were 9-4 winners against the Colorado Rockies. Dermody got his first major league strikeout and allowed two hits and no runs. However, the Blue Jays can not expect to remain atop the American League East if they lose two out of three games to the Rays, something they did at home about a week-and-a-half ago against another last place team, the Los Angeles Angels. He was forced to depart after being hit in the foot on a line drive back to the mound.
Hoberg had rung Martin up on a pitch the catcher felt was not a strike and the two men argued briefly at home plate. Devin Travis drove in two runs in the ninth with a single. With two outs, Jose Bautista and Josh Donaldson reached base, putting the risky Encarnacion at the plate.
Erasmo Ramirez came into the game with the Rays holding a 5-1 lead. After four innings, Estrada had used just 48 pitches and was making his 1-0 lead look insurmountable. This on the heels of working a flawless ninth inning on Friday night on just ten pitches.
Forsythe had three of the Rays’ 13 hits and scored twice. He’s now reached base in 16 of his past 25 plate appearances.
Tampa Bay Rays center fielder Kevin Kiermaier, right, high-fives shortstop Matt Duffy after the Rays defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 7-5 during a baseball game Saturday, Sept. 3, 2016, in St. Petersburg, Fla. Tampa Bay 3B Evan Longoria is two homers shy of his career high of 33, set in 2009, but is just 1-for-15 in his last four games. 2.
Kevin Kiermaier had a pair of hits and finished the night 2-for-5 including hitting his eighth home run on the season.
The Rays had a two-run lead Sunday and were eight outs away from completing a three-game sweep of the first-place Blue Jays when the bullpen imploded. It was the longest streak for any reliever with that many innings pitched this season. Toronto of course scores 4.90 runs per game on average, but their kryptonite has been revealed. The Rays are 7-7 in their last 14 games against AL playoff contenders after Friday’s triumph and do not play a team with a sub-.500 record until meeting the Chicago White Sox from September 26-29.
DIAMONDBACKS 8, ROCKIES 5: Socrates Brito snapped a seventh-inning tie with a three-run homer for visiting Arizona.
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For a while, 17-game loser Chris Archer was in position to beat 17-game victor J.A. Happ.
