Chase Headley homered and Brett Gardner had an RBI single among his three hits for the Yankees, who are two games back of Toronto and Baltimore for the top spot in the wild-card standings.
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Kennedy (11-9) walked four, but Adam Eaton’s leadoff single was the only hit off the right-hander in six innings. The left-hander struck out five.
David Ortiz will be honored at Fenway Park this week. Neither Aaron Sanchez nor Clay Buchholz threw enough strikes and neither lasted to the end of the fourth inning, forcing John Gibbons and John Farrell into using an astonishing 16 total relievers (thank you September baseball with your expanded rosters) as the two teams traded walks, home runs and errors back and forth. There was one fewer run on base, but three was plenty for the Red Sox, who took the 10-8 lead into the bottom of the sixth.
Tanaka (13-4) won his sixth straight decision and recorded his seventh double-digit strikeout game.
Gio Gonzalez was sharp in Washington’s 3-2 triumph against Philadelphia, yielding just a run and four hits in seven innings.
Following the 11-8 loss, it turned out that Sanchez was struggling with a blister. With their wins, the Orioles (77-64) and Yankees (76-65) are just two and three games back, respectively. Martin walked to force in a run and Tulowitzki hit a first-pitch homer. Mike Zunino clubbed a two-run homer as the Mariners stayed 3 1/2 games behind Baltimore for the final AL wild-card spot. He tied Tommy John for the most wins at the Coliseum by a visiting pitcher. Matt Andriese helped the Rays end the Yankees’ seven-game winning streak by holding NY to a run and six hits in five innings.
Throughout the weekend, the club will pay homage to Ortiz’s accomplishments on the field during his 14-year career in a Red Sox uniform, celebrate his leadership in the clubhouse and in the community – both in New England and in the Dominican Republic – and thank him for the countless clutch moments that helped bring three World Series Championships to Boston.
Toronto, whose players met behind closed doors for about an hour before the game, avoided matching its longest skid this season.
Chris Davis supplied a two-run homer, his 36th of the season, in the first inning. Encarnacion has 39 home runs and leads the AL with 115 RBIs. (0.2 innings, earned the victory), Brad Ziegler (1.2 innings), Fernando Abad (faced one batter), Matt Barnes (0.1 innings), and Koji Uehara (1.0 inning) kept the potent Jays offense off the board during innings five through eight. Hill had thrown 89 pitches. Buchholz would get the 2 outs to finish off the inning and that would be it for him.
Twenty games left to maintain their groove. Francoeur’s hit deflected off the top of the glove of shortstop Corey Seager, who jumped as high as he could to try to make the play. Bogaerts, who saw his batting average dip below.300 for the first time since April 30th, laced a single up the middle that plated Bradley and Dustin Pedroia to even the score at 6-6.
After Sunday’s game, Gibbons reiterated Francisco Liriano would start Monday’s series opener against the Rays and knuckleballer R.A. Dickey, who hasn’t pitched since Monday in NY, won’t see action until the Jays get to Anaheim. Aaron Sanchez was surprisingly bad today and could not back up his hitting, as he only lasted 3.2 innings, allowing six earned runs to score.
Donaldson walked twice in the game but went hitless in his three at-bats. Sanchez entered the game with the second-lowest ERA in the AL (2.92 ERA), trailing only Detroit rookie Michael Fulmer (2.76 ERA).
Weaver gave up two runs in 6 2/3 innings. “That was a game-changer right there”.
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Zunino doubled off Ryan Madson (5-5) to begin the ninth and pinch runner Ben Gamel moved up on a single by Leonys Martin. Sale, on the other hand, once again received no run support after allowing just two runs in in eight innings. He is now 11-9 on the season.
