Cano and Nelson Cruz walked in the fourth – an inning that ended on Kevin Pillar’s sliding catch to save a run – but Estrada otherwise kept the Mariners off the bases before Cano’s single.
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The Blue Jays escaped a bases-loaded jam in the 11th.
TORONTO: The Blue Jays are 7-1 in Happ’s last eight road starts and have won 22 of his last 28 starts overall. Blue Jays’ Jose Bautista scored on.
Earlier, goalie Henrik Lundqvist made 36 saves in Sweden’s 2-0 win over Finland. Carrera added an RBI single two batters later and came around from first base to score on Devon Travis’s pop-up single near the right-field line.Encarnacion, who started the inning with a strikeout before nine consecutive batters reached base, added an RBI double in a frame that saw the Blue Jays pile up eight hits and a walk sandwiched between the first and second outs.Martin’s two-run homer tied the score 2-2 after Cano drove in two runs in the third with a odd, seeing-eye triple.With two outs and runners on second and third, Cano hit a sharp grounder to the left of Toronto second baseman Travis, who slid to make a play on the ball – only to have it bounce off his knee and fly all the way into the right-field corner.Six consecutive Toronto hitters recorded hits to chase Seattle starter Hisashi Iwakuma in the fourth.
NATIONALS 8, MARLINS 3: Max Scherzer allowed three runs and struck out eight in 62/3 innings to help Washington win at Miami and match Chicago’s Jon Lester for the NL lead in victories with 18.
“I’m not really sure what’s been going on, as the game gets going I start to struggle a little bit”, Estrada said. “But, when we’re scoring eight an inning, or six an inning, not sure which one it was, but I’ll definitely take that any day”.
Hernandez, meanwhile, buzzed through an offence that experienced a reawakening in Seattle, allowing just two hits and three walks over seven shutout innings. At 21 years, 212 days, Marquez was the second-youngest pitcher in Rockies’ history to earn his first win. It’s kind of been the story of our season. I expressed that to him; he has got to keep going. Troy Tulowitzki singled and Saunders followed with his 24th homer to put Toronto up 4-2. Devon Travis greeted reliever Nick Vincent with a single on a ball that landed on the chalk in short right field.
There were a couple scary moments involving starting pitcher Taijaun Walker Monday night as he was hit on the arm with a 103-mph comebacker off the bat of Edwin Encarnacion and had his foot issues flare up during two fielding plays.
By the time the Mariners had recovered the ball, Carrera was around third and beat the throw home. “Unfortunately, the shutdown inning was nonexistent”.
The Jays’ Josh Donaldson was also tossed in the seventh inning by home plate umpire Chris Conroy for arguing a called third strike. They were around the ball all night.
Closer Roberto Osuna entered and got Cano to line out to the warning track in right field where Ezequiel Carrera was playing. “You are not going to have your A-game every night but you keep your team in there and he did that for us”. But Russ lately has just been on fire, really turned his season around.
The Mariners took a 2-0 lead in the third when Robinson Cano lined a two-run triple off the knee of second baseman Travis that caromed all the way into the right-field corner.
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“Both Sanchez and King Felix were good”, Gibbons said.
