The Blue Jays opened the scoring on Josh Donaldson’s RBI single in the fifth.
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The New York Yankees wasted another strong outing by one of their starting pitchers as they lost 4-1 to the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday night. Jose Bautista is 4-for-34 with 10 strikeouts versus Sabathia.Happ outdueled Sabathia and halted a two-start skid with seven superb innings, giving up one run on three hits to improve to 5-2 in 11 career starts against the Yankees.
But it wasn’t until Tanaka was in the Yankees’ dugout that the Jays offence really broke through, tagging unheralded relievers Kirby Yates and Nick Goody for five runs on four hits and two walks. Those seasons, of course, both ended with the team winning the championship.
“The first time I faced him was in NY, and he made me look pretty stupid”, Barney said of Betances. The Blue Jays finished the sweep with a 7-0 rout of the Yankees at Rogers Centre on Wednesday night. Sabathia faced the Jays two starts in a row and came away having allowed just two earned runs.
The Yankees, who stranded a runner at third in the second when Chase Headley struck out, stranded two in the third. Michael Saunders has 50 hits of his own with 25 runs and 18 RBI. “I still don’t think we’ve hit our stride yet”.
The elder Grilli, also a pitcher, played the grand total of one game at the Major League Baseball level for the Blue Jays back in 1979 when he logged 2.1 innings in a game against the Boston Red Sox. Darwin Barney’s grounder took a big hop at the lip of the infield dirt, seemingly sailing over the charging Gregorius’s head, but the NY infielder snapped the ball out of the air and fired it to first, easily getting the out. He allowed two hits and no walks while striking out four. He made an error on a pick-off attempt that sailed wide of second base before throwing his first pitch, but got a fly ball from Beltran to end the frame. He yielded two unearned runs and a pair of base knocks in seven innings of a 3-1 defeat to Toronto almost a week ago and boasts a 0.45 ERA across the past three starts.
Grilli, acquired in a trade with Atlanta on Tuesday, made his Blue Jays debut with two on and two out in the top of the seventh inning.
Yankees: INF Dustin Ackley will have season-ending surgery this week to fix a torn labrum in his right shoulder, Girardi said.
The Blue Jays will look to bring out the brooms at home on Wednesday evening as they close out their series with the Yankees at 6:07 p.m. local time.
With the calendar turning to June, John Gibbons was asked before the game to what extent he is paying attention to the standings and the Toronto manager answered how one might have thought he would.
DH Alex Rodriguez, 0-for-14 against Toronto LHP J.A. Happ, was not in the lineup for the second straight game.
Sabathia struck out four, moving Chuck Finley into sole possession of 23rd place on strikeouts list with 2,614. The Blue Jays hadn’t hit all year.
The Atlanta Braves held on to beat the San Francisco Giants 5-3, a five-run eighth saw the Los Angeles Angels beat the Detroit Tigers 5-1 and the Kansas City Royals were 6-2 victors against the Tampa Bay Rays.
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Meanwhile, New York will send ace Masahiro Tanaka (3-0, 2.89) to the mound looking to win for the fifth time in as many starts.
