It gave Toronto a 1-0 lead and broke a string of seven straight Toronto runs scored by solo home runs, going back to Sunday’s game in Toronto. “It’s the big leagues and it’s a game of adjustments – it’s not a try-hard league”.
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J.A. Happ extended an outstanding turn of the rotation with six innings of one-run ball, allowing just four hits and a walk with six strikeouts.
According to oddsmakers from online sports book Bovada.lv, the Blue Jays are -116 money line favorites versus the Astros, who have odds of +106 to pull off the upset tonight at home. In 21 starts this season with the Pirates, Liriano is 6-11 with a 5.46 ERA and a WHIP of 1.619 over 113.2 IP.
After being given a day off Wednesday, Bregman was 1 for 4 with a sixth-inning single.
The Blue Jays got the 15th win of the season Thursday from left-hander J.A. Happ in a 4-1 victory over the Houston Astros, They won three in a row from the Astros after dropping the opener of the four-game series in 14 innings. The second overall pick in the 2015 amateur draft, is hitting.056 (2 for 36) since he was brought up July 25. Joaquin Benoit, Jason Grilli and Roberto Osuna followed him to the mound without absorbing any serious wounds. The Astros life-support offense showed it’s blip of life in the sixth inning with back-to-back doubles from Marwin Gonzalez and Jose Altuve to drive in one run.
Toronto doubled the lead in the fifth when Justin Smoak swung over a curveball in the dirt for strike three and the ball hit off Gattis and bounced away for a wild pitch that allowed Russell Martin to score from third. Carlos Correa struck out on three pitches to end the inning.
Tyler White hit a run-scoring double in the bottom half for his first RBI since June 10. I said to myself I wasnt going to put the go-ahead run on and chose to let Biagini try to work out of it..
When Travis scored, it marked the first time during the series that the Blue Jays recorded a run without doing so via a solo home run.
“It feels good”, Encarnacion said about being close to 300. Luis Valbuena (right hamstring strain) is taking part in any baseball activity but continues daily treatment.
On Monday, the Blue Jays had said Sanchez would transition to the bullpen, the same day the team acquired lefty Francisco Liriano from the Pittsburgh Pirates. Toronto is one game behind first-place Baltimore in the AL East and possesses the first wild card, while Houston has dropped five of its last six contests and sits three games behind Detroit for the second wild-card spot.
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Astros: LHP Dallas Keuchel (6-11) is slated to start at home Friday against Texas.
