Normally when a team hits three home runs in a game, it would be a pretty good day for that team’s offense.
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The Washington Nationals edged the Colorado Rockies 5-4, the Seattle Mariners beat the Los Angeles Angels 3-2, the Boston Red Sox defeated the Cleveland Indians by the same scoreline, and the Pittsburgh Pirates saw off the San Francisco Giants 8-5. I know there’s a lot of inexperience and we’ve had some injuries to our pitching staff and we’ve had some players traded away, but we’re going for this.
Where the Blue Jays thrive is the same part of the game that made the Royals into world champions a year ago: open the door for them just a crack, and they’ll come barreling straight through.
“There’s a little more energy”, he said.
Once the rain cleared, everything changed. On the second, a grounder was hit to him for what should’ve been a double play. Donaldsons infield single and Headleys throwing error scored Travis and put Donaldson in scoring position for Tulowitzki. Aaron Judge made a leaping attempt to grab the ball that just cleared the wall, but his jump was Tu-Lo.
Dickey left after five innings, striking out six but walking four. It also concluded his second two-homer performance of the year, as he also went deep twice against the Yankees in NY on May 25.
Then came that handsome top of the eighth inning.
After the Jays went down in the top of the fifth, the skies opened up and play was stopped for a 41-minute rain delay. After allowing four hits and getting seven strikeouts in seven innings during last Wednesday’s 7-0 win over the Tampa Bays, he joined Roger Clemens in 1997 and Roy Halladay in 2003 as the only Toronto pitchers to have a run as good.
Somehow, the game was one of the most important of the season for the Yankees – bigger than any of the games preceding the trade deadline – and a series win against a top contender like the Jays would have proven to fans that the Wild Card chase was real. It was Sanchez’s third home run in two games and fifth in 48 big-league at-bats.
The score was now 6-4, with the Yankees still leading by two.
About five hours and one highly damaging rainstorm later, they suffered another loss, blowing a 6-0 lead because of a bullpen meltdown that occurred after Joe Girardi chose not to send Michael Pineda back out after a 42-minute delay in the middle of the fifth inning. That’s one heck of a comeback when you consider it stood at.569 back on May 9.
The Bombers began clawing their way back in the bottom half when Gary Sanchez, DHing and batting cleanup, continued his impressive run at the plate, mashing a first-pitch home run onto the netting covering monument park beyond center field. It was the first time both starting catchers had multiple home runs in an American League game since at least 1913, the Yankees said. Michael Pineda held the first place Toronto Blue Jays scoreless through 5.0 innings and then the rains came.
“It’s still the same game”, Judge said.
Zach Godley threw a career-high 7 1/3 innings for the Diamondbacks, who won two of three from the Mets to win consecutive home series for the first time since May.
2 run blasts from Edwin Encarnacion and Russell Martin would put the Jays up for the first time of the night, 8-6.
The tremendous start to CC Sabathia’s season seems like a distant memory.
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The Yankees who built a 6-0 lead quickly saw it vanish and the Blue Jays with four runs in the sixth inning and with an eight-run eighth, took control and went on to a 12-6 win.
