These numbers attribute to why Saturday afternoon’s wild 5-run comeback victory over the Minnesota Twins was only the seventh win of 2016 when the Blue Jays trail in the seventh inning or after.
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Bautista led off with bottom of the seventh with a single against Light, his third hit of the game, and Donaldson hit his second homer of the game to center to give Toronto the lead.
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“That’s one part of our team we don’t have a whole lot of, is team speed”, Gibbons said. “He’s capable of that, we have a few guys who are capable of doing something like that, it’s a rare feat”.
Dozens of fans tossed hats onto the field to celebrate the home run hat trick after Donaldson, the AL MVP in 2015, hit a solo shot off Alex Wimmers in the eighth.
Twins reliever Pat Light (0-1) allowed three hits and three runs over 1 1/3 innings to take the loss. That kind of brought it into reality a little bit there.
The three home runs give Donaldson 74 since the beginning of last season, fourth in baseball and just one behind his teammate Edwin Encarnacion.
How we all feel after that come-from-behind win! “It was a team effort all around and Josh had a special day today, it was neat to sit back and watch him to do his thing”.
Blue Jays: RHP Marcus Stroman (9-5, 4.47) is 1-1 with a 2.10 ERA in four August starts, allowing six runs in 25 2-3 innings.
Some call it a Little League home run others would simply call it an inside-the-park home run; but regardless, the Twins lost in heartbreaking fashion on Saturday to the Toronto Blue Jays. Tulowitzki hit a leadoff homer, his 22nd, and Kevin Pillar doubled and scored on a base hit by Devon Travis. Troy Tulowitzki also went deep and Scott Feldman picked up the win.
Twins outfielders Robbie Grossman and Danny Santana collided while chasing a high fly by leadoff batter Bautista in the first. The sellout crowd of 47,485 at Rogers Centre roared as the burly Encarnacion – not known for his speed – bore down on home plate as he rounded third.
In the third, Rosario came around to score on a fielder’s choice RBI by Max Kepler.
Showing that he still has speed to burn at age 32, Upton took advantage of a couple of misplays by Twins’ right-fielder Max Kepler.
Donaldson made up for his ninth error of the season nearly immediately, smoking a Gibson offering into the second deck in left in the bottom half.
DIAMONDBACKS 11, REDS 2: Yasmany Tomas homered, Welington Castillo drove in four runs and Archie Bradley earned his first win in more than a month and Arizona romped at home over Cincinnati.
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Dickey ran into trouble in the fifth giving up a one-out single to Rosario, followed by walking Dozier and Joe Mauer to load up the bases for Kepler once again. He has now reached base in 23 of his last 24 starts and ranks second in the American League with 85 walks (Mike Trout had 90 prior to Sunday’s games).
