LHP J.A. Happ allowed three hits, three walks and one run in seven-plus innings Saturday in the 9-1 win over the Baltimore Orioles. Jonathan Schoop delivered the Birds’ first hit with a man in scoring position, ripping an RBI single to plate Alvarez from second. Dietrich then hit a drive into the left-field gap.
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The Cubs snapped a scoreless tie in the seventh inning. With two on and none out, Alvarez scored Davis by grounding out to second and Wieters hit a sacrifice fly to left field to score Trumbo.
As is customary, the back end of the Jays’ season is loaded with games within the AL East, so they will have ample opportunity to either catch Baltimore or Boston – or, if they pull ahead, create some distance from them.
RANGERS 5, ROYALS 3: Mitch Moreland homered for the fifth time in his last five starts and Lucas Harrell won in his Texas debut as the Rangers beat Kansas City to finish a sweep of the four-game series.
J.A. Happ and the Toronto Blue Jays owe a lot to Ray Searage and the Pittsburgh Pirates, for turning his game around.
METS 6, ROCKIES 4: Neil Walker hit a go-ahead, three-run homer in the seventh inning that rallied NY past Colorado and prevented a season sweep, in NY.
In St. Petersburg, Florida, rookie left-hander Blake Snell (3-4) struck out nine over 5⅓ innings, Luke Maile had a key two-run single against Michael Pineda (5-10) and Tampa Bay completed a three-game sweep.
Ryan Goins is also healthy and playing with the triple-A Buffalo Bisons, where he’s batting 10-for-20 in his last six games with a pair of walks and two RBI.
The Cubs led 1-0 in the eighth inning when Chapman entered the game with runners on second and third base and two outs.
Reds 3, Padres 2: Homer Bailey (1-0) ) returned from forearm and elbow surgeries and allowed two runs, four hits and three walks in 52/3 innings. “It was a good mix of his two-seamer and his four-seamer”.
Walker hit a go-ahead, three-run homer that rallied the Mets past the Rockies 6-4 on Sunday and prevented a season sweep.
Claiming big wins were the Detroit Tigers (11-0 over the Houston Astros), Cleveland Indians (8-0 over the Oakland Athletics) and Los Angeles Dodgers (14-3 over the Arizona Diamondbacks). Tim Beckman made it 6-2 on a two-run shot in the seventh. Lester, a pitcher with an.051 career batting average, bunted on a 2-2 count with a runner at third base and one out. In the bottom of the fourth inning Troy Tulowitzki would demolish a 433 foot home run to left off of the front of the fifth deck.
“But the thing I like about this team is the consistency of our starting pitching”. Many managers are hesitant to bring in their closer in a tie game on the road, instead preferring to hold them back until their team takes the lead and a save opportunity arises.
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The Blue Jays are 4-7 in extra inning games. He would become the sixth pitcher in San Francisco history to win 100 in a Giants uniform, joining Hall of Famers Juan Marichal (238) and Gaylord Perry (134), Tim Lincecum (108), Kirk Rueter (105) and Mike McCormick (104). In his next at-bat he was hit by Tillman, raising the question if the Orioles starter pitched him high and up on goal.
