“Just a tough lineup when you’re not on top of your game”. “That looked a lot like a year ago”. Hopefully we can build off that. It marked Toronto’s highest offensive output of the young season.
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“I just got my ass kicked pretty much all day, that’s all there is to it”, Surkamp said.
The last time the Oakland A’s won seven consecutive games, Josh Donaldson was a big part of it. J.A. Happ delivered another efficient outing and his defence, bolstered by the return of Tulowitzki at shortstop after a night off, turned three double plays. All he did was nonchalantly toss the ball onto the field, and that was that. His rubber game counterpart, Chris Bassitt (0-1), had his first rough appearance of the campaign being punished by the Jays. While Bassitt only walked two batters over the course of his five innings, which isn’t great but isn’t frightful, most of his missed locations occurred when the ball caught too much of the plate and was driven far. He said he felt it before the game and it got progressively worse as the evening wore on.
The Venezuelan’s performance ensures another day’s rest for Saunders’ hamstring.
“I was trying to get him to extend, and I ran it in too far”, Hendriks said. “It gives Michael a little time to heal up”. The left-hander has gone at least six innings in his four starts, living up to the US$36 million, three-year deal he signed in the off-season. After going eight of nine games without playing, Canha is 3-for-10 with two homers and four RBIs in his last three games, two of them starts.
“Coming out of spring training, we said we were going to hit”, Gray said in an appreciative bow to the offense.
The suspension means Colabello would be ineligible for postseason play should the Blue Jays reach the playoffs again this season. “Everybody loves Colabello. But I don’t think people were thinking too much about it during the game”.
“The guys you’re really concentrating on are the guys 2 through 6”.
The victory snapped Oakland’s six-game win streak while ending its ideal road record.
Colabello, 32, is batting 0.069 in 10 games this season. Donaldson’s RBI single in the eighth made it 9-3.
Oakland, outhit 13-7 on the day, scored runs in the first, fourth and seventh.
It takes between 400 and 500 milliseconds for an average big-league fastball to travel from the pitcher’s release point to the plate. He was spiked in the fourth inning when catcher Josh Phegley stepped on his foot throwing to second.
When Happ hit Davis with a pitch to lead off the seventh, the teams received a warning.
Donaldson, bemusedly, was absorbing this information whilst talking hitting with a reporter at his clubhouse cubicle. We should see enough Oakland firepower at the plate to get a victory.
Asked whether he was sending a message by hitting Davis, a guilty-looking Happ replied: “I don’t know”. Josh Donaldson added a three-run blast against his former team as the Blue Jays snapped a three-game slide and ended Oakland’s six-game winning streak. I had nothing today.
Toronto, which led the league last season with 891 runs (5.5 per game), had scored 65 in its 17 previous games (3.8 per game) this year to rank 12th in the majors.
The Players Choice Awards are presented by the Major League Baseball Players Trust, the charitable foundation of MLB players, and Donaldson’s awards came with $70,000 for him to distribute. They were second last season at.269. Sonny Gray did a great job yesterday. The bringer of rain extended his hit streak at home to nine games during the series with Oakland.
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Toronto (8-10) lost its third in a row with two hit batters, an error, wild pitch and passed ball adding to an ugly bottom line before 34,251 at the Rogers Centre. Ben Nicholson-Smith of Sportsnet.ca confirmed that left-handed pitcher Chad Girodo would take Colabello’s roster spot; pitching two scoreless innings in Friday’s loss.
