Francisco Liriano joins the Toronto Blue Jays as a bit of a project.
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Escobar scored a run in the first after reaching on Barney’s first error, and after the Blue Jays put two more on the board in the third, the Royals responded again two innings later. He has thrown a career-high 139 1/3 innings. “That opened things up for us to think about things differently”. We like all six.
Command has been Liriano’s weakness all season, but you wouldn’t have known it as he allowed only an unearned run on four hits through his first four frames, striking out three and, most importantly, walking none.
Liriano, meanwhile, enjoyed a solid debut, allowing just two earned runs over six innings.
That, however, created a commotion among the players, who are in a win-now mode.
Sanchez, who had not suffered a loss since April 22 to the Athletics, has thrown 2,078 pitches this year.
With a six-man rotation and a seven-man bullpen, Gibbons has only a three-man bench. “You know, we definitely. get to September as quick as you can, get reinforcements”.
Liriano, who was acquired from Pittsburgh at the August 1 trade deadline, yielded three runs, two earned, in six innings on seven hits and two walks.
Blue Jays 4, Royals 3: At Kansas City, Devon Travis hit his second homer of the game in the ninth inning to lift Toronto over the Royals.
KANSAS CITY: The Royals are 5-0 in Duffy’s last five starts following a quality start in his last appearance and 4-0 in his last four outings versus a team with a winning record.
On the final day in June, after the Royals traveled across the state to its eastern border, they secured a victory in downtown St. Louis, a game in which right-hander Chris Young started but lasted fewer than five innings.
Two home runs in the same game in the big leagues?
“They’ve got enough things on their mind”, Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said before the game. “And we’ve got to face an All-Star pitcher (Saturday)”.
Paulo Orlando homered for Kansas City and Lorenzo Cain tripled in a run to tie the game at 3 in the 5th.
According to oddsmakers from online sports book BetDSI, the Blue Jays are -134 money line favorites versus the Royals, who have odds of +124 to pull off the upset tonight at home.
Coming off a start in which he struck out a franchise record sixteen batters in just eight innings (while carrying a no-hitter into the eighth as well), the coming out party is in full swing.
The Orioles won their game on Friday making this win important for the Blue Jays as both clubs will look to separate themselves in the standings at some point this month. They’re also 5-0 in Duffy’s last five starts with four days of rest, are a flawless 7-0 in his last seven starts, and are 20-6 in his last 26 home starts.
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This is why the Blue Jays made the move to sign Martin last season and it has shown with the way the starting pitching has pitched this season. Samardzija gave up five runs in seven innings and is 0-3 with a 6.85 ERA in his four starts since the break.
