Happ became the first victor of 16 wins in the majors Wednesday when he led the Toronto Blue Jays to a 7-0 victory against the Tampa Bay Rays.
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“Next man up, I think it’s been like that all year”, said Tulowitzki, who collected a season-high five RBI, his highest total as a Blue Jay.
Snell ran into trouble again in the second and could not finish the inning.
“He deserves to be up here”, manager John Gibbons said. “He found a way to get through it. Bases loaded, no outs against that club at the end of his outing, to get out of that without giving up a run is pretty impressive”.
Bautista has played 80 games this season, where he was hitting.222/.349/.444 with 15 home runs, 48 RBI, a.343 wOBA, and 114 wRC+.
Snell said he was “really pumped up” to face the defending AL East champions, whose 551 runs are second in the AL to Boston. “I’m not going to dial it up every time”. “I’m lucky and I’m thankful that I was able to limit the damage”. The Rays are 14-6 in Smyly’s 20 starts against division foes since he joined the team in 2014.
“Drew battled his tail off tonight”, Forsythe said. Miller struck out twice in three at-bats Wednesday.
Rays: Tampa Bay is off Thursday before opening a three-game series against the Yankees on Friday.
Snell wouldn’t make it out of the second inning as he was unable to command his arsenal, got called for a balk, and looked very much like the rookie. “It was nice to see we kind of made up for that later in the ball game”.
Alex Cobb logged three innings for the Durham Bulls throwing 58 pitches with 42 for strikes.
Tampa continued to pick apart Jays pitching, hammering reliever Scott Feldman for six hits and four runs in the top of the seventh.
Forsythe connected on Estrada’s fourth pitch of the game.
The Rays came away with nothing, but the Blue Jays capitalized with three unearned runs on the 19th homer of the season by Tulowitzki. The Rays rung off five straight hits at one point, including a two-run single for Longoria.
Estrada (7-5) allowed three runs, two earned, and seven hits in five innings.
“It’s more frustrating for him than it is anyone”, Jays general manager Ross Atkins said.
The Jays quickly snatched the lead thereafter as Devon Travis led off with a single to left, just eluding the glove of shortstop Tim Beckham, before Josh Donaldson singled to right after a foul pop fly was dropped by Tampa right-fielder Steven Souza Jr.
Bautista said he hoped to return after only 15 days.
The Blue Jays finished lighting $2 million on fire Tuesday, by outright releasing left-handed relief pitcher Franklin Morales. In 10 starts since the loss, he is 9-0 with a 2.49 ERA. Barnes was optioned to Buffalo following the game.
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Happ, who posted a 4.22 ERA in going 11-11 with Toronto in 2014, never let an inning get out of hand versus the Rays. The veteran southpaw totaled just four innings with the Blue Jays and allowed four runs on three hits and a couple of walks with two strikeouts.
