With their pitching staffs depleted by Friday’s 19-inning marathon, the Cleveland Indians and Toronto Blue Jays both made roster moves before Saturday’s game.
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“All day it was just a fight for him”, Indians manager Terry Francona said. “As of now, from what I’ve seen, I don’t know how they did that”.
Josh Donaldson provided a game-tying solo homer in the seventh inning and drove in Ezequiel Carrera with the go-ahead run in the eighth. Saunders is becoming a doubles machine and added two more to bring his team-leading total to 23… Jason Grilli (2-2) pitched one inning for the win.
Davis became the eighth player in Cleveland history to hit for the cycle.
“That was very impressive”, said Francona.
Carlos Santana also homered for Cleveland, which lost for the first time since a 9-4 defeat at Kansas City on June 15. Tommy Hunter came on to face Donaldson, who hit a single into shallow center. Toronto challenged the call and Carrera was ruled safe after the review. “I mean I knew something was going to happen because supposedly I bumped into him so I don’t know what’s going to happen”. “We liked what we saw but you never know for sure”.
The bullpen and Stroman were absolutely fantastic today and I give all the credit in the world to Goins and Barney, but seriously are you trying to lose that game?
Happ (11-3) won his fifth straight start, striking out a season-high 11 while allowing one run and five hits in seven innings. He and Realmuto had run-scoring singles during a two-run fifth. Rajai Davis hit for the cycle for the Indians (49-31).
Kluber (8-8, 3.79) was on fire coming into the start.
Gimenez allowed four runs on four hits in two innings.
Clay Buchholz (3-9) gave up six runs – three earned – in 4 1-3 innings.
The Royals, who beat the Blue Jays in six games in the ALCS before winning the World Series over the New York Mets in five games, are third in the AL Central with a 43-38 record after losing 7-2 to the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday.
NY set season highs for runs and hits (22).
Chase Headley scored on a passed ball with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, giving NY a 2-1 victory over the Texas Rangers.
White Sox 7, Astros 6 • Dioner Navarro drove in four runs and Chris Sale settled down after a shaky start to become this season’s first 14-game victor as Chicago won on the road.
Former A’s outfielder Nick Swisher says he is stepping away from the game to spend time with his wife and two daughters. LHP Daniel Norris (1-0) starts for the Tigers.
In fact, it seems the entire weekend series is not going Toronto’s way.
BRAVES 9, MARLINS 1: Freddie Freeman homered to help Atlanta hand Miami ace Jose Fernandez one of the worst starts of his career.
Houston starter Doug Fister (8-4) allowed nine hits and five runs in 4 2-3 innings for his second straight loss.
The Jays had the bases loaded quite a few times and didn’t get the winning run across the plate. Verlander (8-6) struck out eight and walked one. Martinez played in 32 games for Cleveland, batting.
The loss was only the seventh by the Indians in their last 30 games.
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Bartolo Colon (7-4) outpitched the NL Cy Young Award victor, who struggled with his control in a 35-pitch first inning, when he went to 3-2 counts on his first four batters.
