Toronto’s comeback began In the sixth inning, when the Blue Jays took a big bite out of the Yankees’ 6-0 lead with four runs.
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(AP Photo/Kathy Willens). New York Yankees’ Gary Sanchez watches his second-inning solo home run off Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Marco Estrada during a baseball game in New York, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016.
New York Yankees RHP Chad Green took a ideal game into the fifth inning and struck out a career-high 11 batters in six scoreless innings in a 1-0 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday at Yankee Stadium. We loved his arm, and that’s why we traded for him.Each time, he took his demotion the right way and said, this is what I need to work on and I’m going to get better.
“I felt as strong as I have ever felt with the ball in my hand”. The last three or four months felt like I’ve always been just a click away from turning out really good outings. “It was unfortunate tonight that I gave up the run”, he said. Neither Troy Tulowitzki nor Darrell Ceciliani advanced one foot further as Green fanned two in a row to end the inning. They dropped Toronto percentage points out of first place in the AL East and pulled within 5 1/2 games of new division leader Baltimore.
Chad Green struck out 11 in six dominant innings, Aaron Judge delivered again with an RBI double and Dellin Betances escaped a big ninth-inning jam, leading the New York Yankees over the visiting Toronto Blue Jays 1-0 on Monday night.
“The only trouble I had was the two walks”, said Dickey. The left-hander struck out four during his fifth straight start with six or more innings and two or fewer runs.
“He kept fouling off good pitches”, Warren said about his tussle with Donaldson. “Those are the innings where you try to turn the momentum”.
After Green (2-2) retired the first 13 batters he faced, he then allowed back-to-back hits that put runners on second and third with one out. Both players, who arrived from Class AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on Saturday, immediately made an impact, combining for back-to-back home runs in their first Major League at-bats.
Then he struck out the side in the sixth, including Josh Donaldson swinging to end the frame. The righthander fanned him with his 104th and final pitch, a 96 miles per hour heater, and Donaldson flung his bat toward the Toronto dugout.
The first was hit by Edwin Encarnacion, whose two-run shot tied the game at 6-6.
The Marlins went into Monday one-half game behind idle St. Louis for the National League’s second wild-card slot. Green quickly regained his composure to strike out Justin Smoak and Melvin Upton in succession to keep the Jays off the scoreboard.
Blue Jays: OF Ezequiel Carrera (strained left Achilles tendon) was activated from the 15-day disabled list and started in right field.
In the bottom of the second inning, after adjudicating the first six outs of the game, home plate ump Hunter Wendelstedt was nailed on the mask by a foul tip off Brian McCanns bat.
Impressive rookie Gary Sanchez homered twice for NY, including a titanic, three-run drive deep into the rarely reached second deck in left field.
In four starts, Green was 1-2 with an ERA of 7.50 and he received a no-decision in a game in which he failed to make it out of the fourth inning. Two strikeouts later, Tulowitzki popped a two-run homer just beyond the short porch in right field, and Martin followed with a home run to center.
In other results, reigning World Series champions the Kansas City Royals defeated the Detroit Tigers 6-1, the Texas Rangers outlasted the Oakland Athletics 5-4, the Chicago White Sox lost 3-1 to the Cleveland Indians and the St Louis Cardinals were too good for the Houston Astros 8-5.
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Inconsistent and often unhappy about having to shift between a spot in the rotation and the bullpen when he first pitched in Toronto from 2012 to 2014, the left-hander did not do himself any favours when he posted a 4.39 earned run average in 50 starts.
