However the Red Sox did not fold easily, and were right in the contest until the final pitch.
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The idea that this increased the velocity on his four-seamer isn’t necessarily true.
After struggling for much of September, the Blue Jays offence came alive in in the third inning. Among qualified starters, only Bartolo Colon and teammate Aaron Sanchez threw a higher rate of fastballs.
The players woke up to a gloomy morning in Texas but the forecast called for the rain to disappear in time for the 12:08 local time start. The Jays knocked around former World Series MVP, Cole Hamels, to give themselves the 1-0 series lead. The veteran shortstop has already driven in five runs in the series.
The singer’s tribute was tweeted by fans and the Blue Jays themselves as she belted out her song Rolling in the Deep in an encore performance.
“It’s a great thing for me”. In the Rangers’ playoff history, no two pitchers had combined to allow as many runs in the first two games of a series as Hamels and Darvish did. Sometimes when you hit the ball soft it works out too.
The enigmatic Bauer, who began the season in the bullpen, was in trouble in the first inning but emerged from a two-on, none-out situation only down 1-0. He was also Mr.
Of course, the Jays were in the same position as the Rangers last season after dropping their first two games at home and they still came back to win the series in five.
The Red Sox were to try to rebound in Game 2 yesterday. On Bautista’s career, that’s his worst average against any pitcher he has faced at least 15 times.
The long ball barrage chased Darvish. But with two outs in the third inning, everything fell apart. Bautista hit.175 with a.288 slugging percentage against outside pitches this season.
Osuna, who left Tuesday’s wild-card win over the Baltimore Orioles in the 10th inning complaining of shoulder discomfort, has been feeling better, Gibbons says, but there is still some concern surrounding the closer’s availability, enough that the Jays went with eight relievers on the ALDS roster.
He’s a key reason Toronto made the postseason, and now he’ll be pitching in the postseason for the first time since he was pitching for Philadelphia in 2009.
A leadoff home run in the fourth inning by Melvin Upton made it 6-0 Jays.
Bautista had that emphatic bat flip after his tiebreaking homer in the ALDS Game 5 clincher last October against the Rangers, and got punched the last time the Blue Jays played in Texas in May.
Yu Darvish (7-5) will take the mound trying to pull the Rangers even while Toronto turns to J.A. Happ (20-5) to take control. Will that pressure help or hurt Darvish? “We’re going to get a win today!”
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Marco Estrada was brilliant, the slumbering bats awoke en masse, and the Blue Jays now turn the ball over to their unlikely 20-game victor in hoped of bringing a 2-0 series lead home to the Rogers Centre.
