Houston starter Collin McHugh (5-6) allowed five hits and two runs while walking four with nine strikeouts in 5 2/3 innings to remain winless since May 30.
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“It felt good until Philadelphia when I took a few awkward swings and reaggravated everything”.
Manager, John Gibbons, Edwin Encarnacion, and Russell Martin were all thrown out of the game for arguing with the home plate umpire.
“Losing is hard, I don’t care”, Indians manager Terry Francona said after the game Saturday. “The ball has such good finish through the plate”.
The Jays would tag on another four in the eighth with Indians catcher Chris Gimenez taking the mound.
“Unfortunately my career ERA of zero skyrocketed a little bit today”, Gimenez said.
Encarnacion did not let the bad news affect his day.
Gimenez was the third position player to pitch in the series.
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.
“Nobody likes to do that but sometimes you have to”, Gibbons said.
Dioner Navarro drove in a season-high four runs, Chris Sale settled down after a shaky start to pitch seven-plus innings and become this season’s first 14-game victor and the Chicago White Sox beat the Houston Astros 7-6 on Saturday. He walked four and struck out four in his second shortest start of the season. “It all starts with fastball command”. Justin Smoak capped off a four-run inning with a two-run home run, his ninth of the season. After all, they would have been no better than tied on the road against a team that had already hit three home runs on the day against Cleveland’s already overextended bullpen.
J.A. Happ delivered by pitching seven innings of one-run ball while allowing five hits and striking out a season-high 11 in a 17-1 thumping of the Cleveland Indians at Rogers Centre.
With Joba Chamberlain on in relief, Tulowitzki gave the Blue Jays a 5-0 lead scoring Carrera on a bases loaded sac-fly.
The 33-year-old retired 11 straight after allowing a first inning double to Cleveland’s Jason Kipnis.
The Cleveland Indians found out that they did not like to lose on Saturday when the Toronto Blue Jays beat them 9-6. Gonzalez walked two batters and gave up two hits in Minnesota’s four-run first and was hurt by poor defense, with misplays on three consecutive batters extending the inning (see full story).
Estrada has been an anchor in Toronto’s rotation with a 2.93 earned-run average and 5-3 record through 16 starts.
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.
The Indians finally got to Happ in the seventh when Yan Gomes broke up the shutout with an RBI single. Michael Saunders followed it up with his team-leading 23rd double of the season knocking Kluber from the game.
White Sox closer David Robertson pitched the ninth to earn his 21st save.
Indians: 3B Juan Uribe left after being hit on the right hand in the sixth. Cleveland activated OF Abraham Almonte from the restricted list Sunday after he completed an 80-day suspension for violating baseball’s drug policy.
Given how overextended their bullpen had become, there was no guarantee that the Indians would have extended their streak even if the correct ruling was made on Carrera.
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Tulowitzki hit his 13th homer of the season of left-hander Shawn Morimando, who was called up from Double-A to make his major-league debut.
