REDS 6, DIAMONDBACKS 1: Jay Bruce hit a three-run homer and barely missed another during one of Cincinnati’s final home games before the non-waiver trade deadline, and the Reds beat fading Arizona. Seattle is only 6-16 its last 22 road games.
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Mariners: LHP Wade Miley (6-7, 5.36) is 0-5 with a 5.60 ERA in his past five starts.
Take Toronto over Seattle for another Best Bet victor. “I hit two guys with it”.
Each week, Jays Journal will take a look at the bigger picture of the AL East to help frame not only where the Blue Jays are in the standings, but why they are there.
Toronto closer Roberto Osuna pitched a ideal ninth inning to pick up his 20th save of the season.
Michael Saunders hit two homers for the Blue Jays (54-44), Justin Smoak hit a two-run blast and Josh Thole had a sacrifice fly. Blue Jays RHP Aaron Sanchez (10-1, 2.87 ERA) will face San Diego Padres RHP Colin Rea (5-4, 5.01) in the opener of a three-game series at Rogers Centre.
“(The knuckleball) was coming out of my hand with good velocity and fairly good movement, I was getting a good amount of swings and misses with it, it was just a really weird outing”.
Jacob deGrom, Mets: The New York ace was torched for five runs on 10 hits in just 3 2/3 innings of work against the Marlins. “He made a mistake on the home run ball”.
In Chicago, with ace Chris Sale scratched following a clubhouse incident, the White Sox used six pitchers before their game was suspended by rain after eight innings tied at 3. Seattle produced six base runners.
Encarnacion hit his 224th home run in a Blue Jays uniform, a solo shot in the fourth inning, to pass Vernon Wells for third place on the franchise’s all-time list. “It was one of those games where everyone gets caught up on it when everything goes south on you”.
“I thought he was a little off early in the game”, Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. At only 28 years old and with his track record of success, this is likely not the last we’ve seen of him.
“We had some good at-bats, but he did enough to keep us off the board”, catcher Mike Zunino said.
On two swings of the bat, Mariners slugger Nelson Cruz recorded seven RBIs against the Blue Jays. Thole hit a leadoff double and advanced to third on Darwin Barney’s fielder’s choice grounder, sliding around Kyle Seager’s tag. With two outs in the fourth inning, he left a sinker too high in the zone and served up Edwin Encarnacion’s 27th home run. Chris Iannetta then walked and O’Malley singled to the third-base side, beating out the long throw to first from Josh Donaldson and once again leaving Dickey in a bases-loaded, nobody-out jam.
Left-hander Franklin Morales replaced Dickey and got a double play grounder from Smith that allowed another run to score to give Seattle a 6-1 lead.
J.A. Happ will be going for his career-best 13th win of the season on Sunday. Toronto designated reliever Drew Storen for assignment before the game and recalled reliever Ryan Tepera.
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Mariners: Seattle is off Monday before opening a two-game series at Pittsburgh on Tuesday.
