The first game of the series will match up Patrick Corbin and Marco Estrada. Losers of three in a row, Toronto sends eight-game victor J.A. Happ to the mound to oppose Robbie Ray on Wednesday in a matchup of left-handers.TV: 4:07 p.m. ET, FSN Arizona, Sportsnet One (Toronto)PITCHING MATCHUP: Diamondbacks LH Robbie Ray (4-5, 4.44 ERA) vs. Blue Jays LH J.A. Happ (8-3, 3.41)Ray has notched back-to-back victories, including a strong outing at Philadelphia on Friday when he allowed two runs on seven hits while striking out seven batters over six innings. “Got back to the fastball inside and just tried to get as many groundballs as I could”.
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“I should probably stay away from that”. He walked three and struck out three. He paid for it Tuesday.
Estrada missed time in spring training with back issues but he said it did not bother him again until he began to swing the ball in interleague play in National League parks.
“I think I got it between the (outfield wall’s) padding”, said Pillar.
Helping on that front is an off-day Thursday, which gives Estrada an extra day of rest before he next takes the mound. Tomas’ 10th home run of the season, a second-deck shot beyond the left-field fence, increased that edge to 3-0 one inning later. Not his best start, but if this is as bad as it gets it’s a pretty easy life for Estrada, all things considered.
Well enough to extend his remarkable run of consistency through 14 starts, a run unlike any others in big-league history.
The 32-year-old Estrada became the first pitcher to hold opponents to five or fewer hits and pitch six or more innings in 11 consecutive games.
“Shoot, there’s been a lot of great pitchers in this game”, he said. “And for something like that to happen, obviously very excited, very happy for it. But it’s kind of a bittersweet moment right now”.
Over his career Happ has a (2-1, 1.73 ERA, 0.885 WHIP, 8.7 K/9) record against the Diamondbacks.
He would go on to remain in the game, and lucky he did as in the bottom of the inning he came up with his 2-run double. Blue Jays 2B Devon Travis is 13-for-27 with two homers and nine RBIs during a seven-game hitting streak.2. “If you’re not, they’re going to expose you and take advantage of you, like they did today”.
RP David Robertson, White Sox – The closer was called upon in the 10th inning to keep Chicago tied with Cleveland but failed to do so, allowing two hits, two walks and the game-winning run for the Tribe. They had a chance to do some damage in the seventh, but with runners on the corner and one out, reliever Jake Barrett got Josh Donaldson to hit into a broken-bat double play.
Daniel Hudson pitched a flawless ninth to pick up his first save of the season.
A small circle formed around Marco Estrada in the Toronto Blue Jays clubhouse, with teammates carefully shaking his hand as his right arm was covered in ice packs.
Arizona scored first. Jean Segura accepted his second walk of the game with two outs in the top of the third.
The rally would end with Kevin Pillar making the third out at third base trying to steal. He bounced a 0-0 pitch from Chavez off the right-field foul pole. The team, sitting at 39-33, looked to make up some ground in the AL East where they are presently 3rd Place and just 2.5 games back of the Orioles for top spot. Said Mackanin: “We wanted him to go out on a positive note… we wanted a positive feeling for his next game”.
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Not this time, and it cost them.
