Toronto Blue Jays designated hitter Edwin Encarnacion and manager John Gibbons were ejected in the first inning on Friday afternoon of their game against the Cleveland Indians.
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The contact between Encarnacion and Carapazza was not necessarily malicious or intentional, and that is likely the argument that Encarnacion will base his upcoming appeal on.
Team president and CEO Mark Shapiro spoke to Cleveland reporters (including MLB.com’s Jordan Bastian) about a variety of topics, including his transition from the Indians to the Blue Jays, the Jose Bautista contract situation in the spring, the differences between the Cleveland and Toronto markets and more. 262 with 22 home runs through the first 82 games. He walked four and struck out four in his second shortest start of the season.
Estrada said he aggravates the injury swinging the bat, which he had to do during starts in Philadelphia and Colorado last month.
Joe Biagini hit Jose Uribe with a pitch with the bases loaded to trim Toronto’s lead to 5-4.
“It seems like he has another gear on that fastball”, Francona said of Happ. “I don’t know what else we were going to so I’m going to take the ball and give as much as I can”.
Diamondbacks 6, Giants 5: Welington Castillo’s three-run homer off Hunter Strickland (3-1) in the eighth inning rallied Arizona to end a six-game losing streak. “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”. Jason Grilli (2-2) pitched one inning for the win.
“The boys came out swinging today”, left-hander J.A. Happ said. “I could never hit a home run on my bobblehead day, ‘” Tulowitzki added.
Detroit extended its winning streak to six with a 5-1 win against Tampa Bay after Justin Upton snapped an eighth-inning tie with a two-run double.
Sale (14-2) allowed four runs in the first three innings before settling in to yield just two hits and an unearned run the rest of the way. “The explanation they gave us was his arm got in there before I tagged him”. In 2014, he threw a scoreless inning against the Angels.
Houston starter Doug Fister (8-4) allowed nine hits and five runs in 4 2-3 innings for his second straight loss.
Colon allowed two runs and four hits in six innings.
“I was humping up on them, too”, said Gimenez, whose velocity ranged from 65 to 82 miles per hour. He hit his ninth homer of the season in the first, tripled in the third, doubled in the seventh and singled in the ninth.
Tyler Flowers had three doubles for the Braves, while Jace Peterson, Freddie Freeman, Nick Markakis, Erick Aybar and Chase d’Arnaud all had two hits in the 14-hit outburst.
The Indians and Blue Jays drew 45,962 fans to Rogers Centre.
Padres 2, Yankees 1: Melvin Upton Jr. homered on the first pitch of the ninth to give San Diego a walk-off win. The once soon-to-be-replaced infielder went four-for-five with two home runs with six RBIs, including a grand slam, his second of the series.
Strasburg improved to 11-0 this season, becoming the first NL pitcher to do that since San Diego’s Andy Hawkins back in 1985, and has won a franchise-record 14 straight decisions dating back to last season.
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So the Blue Jays can continue their homestand Monday night against the Kansas City Royals feeling a little more comfortable than they did when the Indians hit town at the start of the holiday weekend.
