Corey Kluber lasted just 3.1 innings on Sunday, allowing five runs on seven hits while walking four.
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Aaron Sanchez has improved to 9-1 with this win, which places him at the top of Toronto Blue Jays franchise history in terms of win percentage before the All Star Break.
“That decision is out of my hands”, Sanchez said regarding management’s intentions to limit his innings.
Despite appearing in a team-high 113.1 innings, the 24-year old has thrived as arguably the best pitcher in the rotation.
The Boston Red Sox finally won back-to-back games for the first time in nearly a month as they knocked off the Texas Rangers 12-5 in Monday’s Major League Baseball action. “The good part of it, if it happens, he makes our bullpen better too”.
“I know the fans will be pretty insane”, he told MLB.com.
Volquez allowed four runs and four hits in six-plus innings. He allowed four hits (including two home runs), two walks, and five runs (four earned) in 1 2/3 innings.
Yost said Ventura will throw a bullpen session on Tuesday if he is able.
“It felt good until Philadelphia when I took a few awkward swings and reaggravated everything”. “I think if you’re looking at it from about the seventh inning on yesterday, you think OK, if (we) lose three here, that’s tough”.
Reliever Luke Hochevar walked Devon Travis to force in a run, then gave up two singles to Darwin Barney and Josh Donaldson as the Jays broke the game open. Michael Saunders had an RBI groundout in the first.
Kendrys Morales would continue his hot stretch clubbing his 15th homer of the season.
After Ezequiel Carrera advanced the runners with a sacrifice bunt, Donaldson lined a two-run single to right, making it 6-1. With Edwin on second, Pillar singled to left, Edwin was waved home, but a flawless throw from Alex Gordon just got him.
Encarnacion led off the bottom of the fourth with the first hit of the game by either team.
Tulowitzki had three hits, including a three-run homer, Russell Martin homered and drove in five runs and the Blue Jays routed the Cleveland Indians 17-1 Sunday.
Victor Martinez kept it alive by hustling up the first-base line to avoid grounding into what would have been an inning-ending double play that would have allowed the Rays to cling to a 1-0 lead.
Troy Tulowitzki followed it up with a single, and Kevin Pillar was hit by a pitch on an 0-2 delivery. Other than the Kendys Morales home run, he was never in trouble.
“It’s a pretty good lineup over there”, Volquez said. “We took advantage late, a key walk by Travis, big hit by Barney and Josh padding it a little bit, but that wasn’t an easy game”. He added a solo shot in the eighth for the first two-homer game of his career.
NOTES: Attendance was 36,438.
Blue Jays right-hander Marco Estrada is hoping cortisone shots to his sore back will prevent him from missing his next scheduled start. He’s hopeful he’ll make his next start on Thursday against Detroit.
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Against the defending World Series champions, one of the Jays’ main rivals, Sanchez picked up his ninth win, dominating early and getting help from his defence as the Jays turned away the Kansas City Royals 6-2 at the Rogers Centre.
