“We came here in first place and we going to try to maintain it”, Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. Toronto may have put a crooked number up against the O’s on Saturday, but if the Orioles were going to go down on this day it would be a bit tougher on the home team. Tulowitzki left in the eighth, two innings after he was hit on the right hand by a pitch from Tillman.
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In Chicago, Leonys Martin hit a go-ahead, two-run double off new Chicago closer Aroldis Chapman in the eighth inning, lifting Seattle past the Cubs.
“I’ll get up, come to the field, see how it feels, and hopefully get some of the inflammation out of there”, Tulowitzki said. The shortstop was able to play the field after the injury, but couldn’t grip a bat as his thumb grew swollen and painful. He surrendered just five hits and one earned run through five innings, but his reliever, Odrisamer Despagne, gave up four runs in the sixth inning en route to a 6-2 Orioles loss.It hasn’t helped that Baltimore’s usually explosive offense has been nonexistent through the five-game slump.
“We’ll see how he feels tomorrow and the next couple days”, manager John Gibbons said.
And the O’s of course got what could be thought of as a shot in the arm after the game when they trade for LHP Wade Miley. NY sustained another costly injury, this one to shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera, but snapped a four-game skid that matched its longest this season. The Baltimore run became moot when the Toronto offence went into overdrive three innings later.
Toronto will go for the series sweep on Sunday before heading out on a seven-game trip to Houston and Kansas City.
Braves 2, Phillies 1: Jeff Francoeur hit a tiebreaking two-run homer off Andrew Bailey (3-1) in the seventh inning to give Atlanta the win.
Pedro Alvarez walked to begin the 12th and moved up on a balk by Franklin Morales (0-1).
MARLINS 5, CARDINALS 4 (at Miami) – Pinch-hitter Derek Dietrich hit an RBI triple with two out in the ninth inning as Miami earned a split of the four-game series. It is certainly not the first time a pitcher has pinch-hit for a pitcher in Major League Baseball history, but we can not imagine too many scenarios where that pitcher was in turn replaced by a fellow pitcher as a pinch runner.
The Toronto Blue Jays (59-46) took two of three from the Baltimore Orioles (59-45) this weekend, making an already cramped American League East race even tighter.
Down 2-0, the Orioles tied the game in the seventh with a rally fueled by slumping sluggers Chris Davis and Mark Trumbo.
SAN FRANCISCO – Joe Panik hit a go-ahead sacrifice fly in the seventh inning and San Francisco beat Washington to snap a three-game losing streak. Blue Jays catcher Russell Martin says Happ’s fastball has been “explosive” lately, and that the left-hander (who threw his four-seamer 56 percent of the time in July) is doing a great job of locating it all over the zone. Darwin Barney finished the game in Donaldson’s place.
Orioles: RHP Dylan Bundy (3-3, 3.46) starts Tuesday against Rangers RHP Yu Darvish (2-2, 3.09).
It’s the first time the Jays have had sole possession of first since they were 2-0 to start the 2016 season.
Last week, the Orioles seemed buoyant-after suffering a four-game losing skid, they bounced back with a five-game winning streak reclaimed the top spot in the American League East.
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Tigers 3, Astros 2: Jose Iglesias drove in the game-ending run on an infield single with two outs in the ninth.
