Building off of a series win over the Kansas City Royals, the Jays swept Minnesota out of town, the team’s first four-game series sweep at the Rogers Centre since 2009, and continued to resemble a new-age version of the famed Yankees’ Murderer’s Row in the process.
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Designated hitter Miguel Sano had an RBI single and a two-run homer for the Twins.
However, the National League West-leading Dodgers (62-46) took care of the right-hander by countering with 15 hits and a surplus of support to improve to a season-best 16 games above.500. It’s baseball’s longest active streak for any player against an opponent.
The Blue Jays answered in the bottom of the first with two runs on the 29th homer of the year by Donaldson, scoring shortstop Troy Tulowitzki, who walked.
“It’s one of those things… two starts ago, I gave up nine straight runs, nine straight guys hot hits”.
“He’s a guy that puts the ball in play and when he does get on base, he’s a pain in the ass because he can steal bases, he’s going to go first to third”.
Hutchison gave up seven runs, three of them earned, in five innings. Gibbons already had been ejected in the seventh inning.
The Toronto Blue Jays have been piling up home runs and victories.
So it makes flawless sense that they also are running 1-2 in the AL East standings.
But none of those teams are the New York Yankees, who the Blue Jays are aiming at now that their productive 10-game homestand came to a resounding conclusion Thursday night. Howie Kendrick had three hits to help the Dodgers win for the fifth time in six games.
DAVIS’ SLAM LIFTS ORIOLES: Chris Davis hit his second grand slam in 12 days with one out in the top of the 10th inning and Baltimore beat the Oakland Athletics 7-3 on Wednesday. Dickey has won his last three starts, but two of those came against light-hitting Oakland and Philadelphia. After Tulowitzki failed to cash him in, the Twins decided to “unintentionally-intentionally” walk Josh Donaldson. Caleb Joseph and Manny Machado led off the inning with back-to-back singles. Hicks homered to center on a 3-1 count. The Jays have scored the most runs in the bigs – 587; the Yankees are second with 523.
Liam Hendriks, Brett Cecil and Mark Lowe all worked one inning of relief before LaTroy Hawkins finished for his third save.
That’s when he’ll face the Yankees at Yankee Stadium as a member of the Blue Jays for the very first time.
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Toronto’s last 12 games at home.
Giants 6, Braves 1 – Madison Bumgarner pitched into the eighth inning, Kelby Tomlinson drove in three runs and visiting San Francisco routed Atlanta. “We’ve still got a couple of young guys but for the most part it’s a seasoned team”.
Ramos, a left-handed reliever, hasn’t allowed a run in his last 10 appearances. And now, suddenly, it appears that Toronto may have the arms to complement their high-powered offense – their run differential is an AL-high +120, the Yankees are third at +70 – and in fact, their team ERA (3.93) is slightly better than the Yankees’ 3.98.
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“Every now and then you want to get a complete game to give your bullpen a breather”, said Kaat, who started and relieved in his 25-year career.
