Rookie Ryon Healy belted a three-run homer for his first major-league hit, Khris Davis launched two solo shots and right-hander Sonny Gray ended his seven-game losing streak as the host Oakland Athletics posted a 5-4 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday.Gray (4-8) gave up three runs on six hits over six innings and won for the first time since April 22 at Toronto.
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The deal runs through the 2018 season with a club option for 2019. “He said he’s feeling pretty good”, Gibbons said. Though only Encarnacion occupies the same positions right now, any extension of Bautista or Saunders would have to be premised upon a transition to first base or base in the near to medium term.
Blue Jays designated hitter Edwin Encarnacion was suspended for one game by Major League Baseball on Sunday and fined an undisclosed amount for making contact with an umpire.Encarnacion was ejected for the first time this season for arguing with Carapazza after being called out on strikes to end the first inning of Friday’s 19-inning, 2-1 loss to Cleveland.
Smoak, by his own admission, says he hasn’t lived up to the expectations of his elite pre-draft status.
“I think maybe the warmer temperatures probably help a little bit with the pitch that I throw”, Dickey said.
“No, not even close”, Smoak said Saturday before the game against Oakland. It’s all about staying consistent.
A day after a replay ruling on a play at the plate figured prominently in an A’s 8-7 win, home plate was the center of two more challenges – on the same play. “I’ve been told it will be 4-6 weeks before I can be back”, Rodriguez said.
“They’re on the same team today and certainly could be on the same team next year”. But he was picked up by an offense that hasn’t done enough damage with the long ball as a team this season.
Smoak spent parts of five seasons with the Mariners after being acquired from Texas in 2010. But if that’s not the case, that’s not the case.
2016 is already shaping up to be much different for the Blue Jays.
Drew Storen was first on in relief for Dickey after he issued a leadoff walk in the seventh.
“With our record, we have to look at some other guys and see if they are going to be pieces for us in the future”, the manager said. “So [we] saw this as an opportunity in a short window to see if there was something there with Justin”. Less so in regards to Chris Colabello, but a healthy Joey Bats’ back in the Blue Jays lineup could contribute much more than any trade ever could. He’s begun a rehab assignment with Class-A Dunedin and is eligible to play for Toronto again on July 23 after serving an 80-game suspension after testing positive for the anabolic steroid dehydrochlormethyltestosterone.
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Josh Thole opened up the Blue Jays offence in the second inning, rolling a double to the wall in right field to score Darwin Barney and Troy Tulowitzki, who had doubled earlier in the inning.
