According to oddsmakers from online sports book Bovada.lv, the Blue Jays are -119 money line favorites versus the Yankees, who have odds of +109 to pull off the small upset in Toronto.
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The better news is the clubs will meet each other another 10 times in 2016. The Jays hammered the Yankees 7-0.
The bottom of the 7th proved decisive, as Joe Girardi opted not to use any of his shutdown troika, and the Blue Jay bats responded by ding something they haven’t done almost as much they should this year in tacking on runs. Michael Saunders followed that with an RBI double off the right-field wall before Justin Smoak delivered the dagger with a two-run single.
“The first time I faced him was in NY, and he made me look pretty stupid, ” Barney said of Betances. “We looked at some video and tried to get back to that guy”, Barney said.
“It becomes more glaring when it’s more than one guy”, Girardi said of the offensive struggles. “Trying to regain form and feel, I don’t want to say it as an alibi or an excuse but I think it’s a reason”.
Darwin Barney took a step toward establishing himself as a useful part of the Blue Jays roster both in the field and at the plate. Tanaka lasted five innings, giving up three hits and two runs with four walks and six strikeouts. “They’re really, really good at what they do but they’re not going to be ideal”.
“I’m not a soap-box guy where I have to rah-rah and give an unbelievable speech in front of a podium”, he said.
Jason Grilli could make his Toronto debut after being acquired Tuesday from Atlanta. The results were hardly surprising, though, despite Nova’s recent solid work in the rotation: he entered the game allowing an average exit velocity of 97.0 miles per hour on line drives and fly balls, the worst mark among Major League Baseball pitchers this season (min. 100 balls in play).
“It’s grown over time”, Grilli said of the inscriptions he makes every time he enters a game to pitch. His father, Steve Grilli, made one appearance for the Jays in 1979, and the two joined John Mayberry and John Mayberry Jr.as the only father/son duos to play for the Jays in the team’s history.
“To have that kind of adrenalin rush again, I live and thrive off that”, Grilli said. “[Sabathia] pitched a great game, he’s been awesome all year”.
“There is an energy here I have craved for a while”.
If you have watched the Yankees not hit the past four games, it’s impossible to invest faith in what you have seen.
In 2015, Ratcliffe went 2-2 with a 3.60 ERA and a 30/16 strikeout-to-walk ratio.
The Blue Jays scored five runs in a bat-around seventh against Kirby Yates and Nick Goody.
Josh Donaldson bobbled and barehanded a ball before making an acrobatic throw to get Alex Rodriguez out in the second inning. That’s because the offense ranked 13th in the league in runs scored, managing two-or-fewer runs in 10 games last month.
He doubled on the first pitch of Tuesday’s game, hit a three-run homer off Patrick Corbin (2-5) in the second inning and added a run-scoring single off the left-hander in the fourth. Tanaka struck out two and walked one. Back then the Jays had sunk four games below.500 after losing five straight.
The Jays have Thursday off before starting a six-game trip on Friday in Boston against the Red Sox.
Apparently, Barney was good offensively throughout the entire series.
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“No one in here really doubted we were a well-rounded team”. When he got there, starting pitcher Marcus Stroman made a show of dusting off his uniform. “We’ve got to keep it up, keep the pressure on our division”. He started his post-game news conference with some words for revered Sun baseball columnist Bob Elliott, who is retiring.
