Price, who shut out New York on Saturday at Yankee Stadium, wasn’t at his sharpest in allowing 11 hits.
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“Once I hit that home run, I had a feeling (Tanaka) was going to keep it up”, Teixeira said. “Good win”. The Bronx Bombers pounded out 13 hits with Carlos Beltran connecting on a three run homer while Chase Headley doubled in a run and scored.
“I thought we did a pretty good job against a really good pitcher”, Girardi said. Troy Tulowitzki followed by sending a ball up the middle that deflected off Ivan Nova’s hand to Didi Gregorius at short, and he dove to tag second for an out as Pillar scored.
“The fans are insane now, and rightfully so”, said Miller, who finally threw another slider past a swinging Tulowitzki to end the game.
“With the (noisy sellout) crowd in the stands I was a little amped up”, Sanchez (6-5) said.
Price needed 53 pitches to get through the first three innings but, staked to a lead, he dispatched the Yankees on 10 pitches in the top of the fourth.
The building was rocking again in the ninth as the Blue Jays got two runners on and the winning run in scoring position.
Tulowitzki kept fouling off pitches during the tense at-bat, which included several mound meetings between Miller and catcher McCann.
Manager Joe Girardi said he was pleased to see the Yankees pay tribute to A-Rod’s achievement. “That was a great, great at-bat”. The game is scheduled for a 7:10 p.m. start time and it will be televised live on the Major League Baseball Network. Nova left the game after throwing seven innings of three run ball, allowing just five hits and one walk, striking out three Blue Jays.
“We didn’t play well against them at home, they swept us, and it’ll be tough”, Yankees left fielder Brett Gardner said.
“They have talent, but during that last stretch everybody’s going to be clawing and scratching, and they know it’s not over yet”, Barfield said. It’s the longest active playoff drought in baseball, the longest in all of North American professional sports, in fact. Toronto has won 11 straight twice this season, also doing it in June. The big difference, at least in his splits, is that opponents are hitting nearly 100 points higher (.289 to.198) on the road.
The 11-game win streak is no more!
Price did not allow a run until the eighth when he gave up three straight hits with one out.
Royals 4, Angels 1: Eric Hosmer hit a go-ahead two-run homer, Danny Duffy settled down after a wild start and Kansas City rallied for a victory over Los Angeles.
LHP Mark Buehrle won his fourth straight decision Thursday when he pitched seven-plus innings in a 4-2 win over the Oakland Athletics.
Rangers 5, Rays 3: Josh Hamilton homered and delivered the tiebreaking sacrifice fly for Texas in a victory that snapped Tampa Bay’s four-game winning streak.
After Bautista made it 5-2 with an RBI double in the fifth, Minnesota intentionally walked Encarnacion to load the bases with one out.
It’s still August, but the importance of the three-game series between the Yankees and Blue Jays can’t be denied. He had been pounded for eight runs while failing to pitch past the third inning in his previous two outings versus the Yankees.
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Arquimedes Caminero (3-1) pitched a scoreless ninth for the win (see full recap). The menial pitching is what killed them before the All-Star Game, and they decided to go out and make a change to that, acquiring David Price via trade.
