On Friday night he worked a flawless inning on 10 pitches (8 strikes), on Saturday another ideal frame on eight pitches (6-strikes).
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“I felt good”, Archer said. “I was most happy with the fact that I got back to a competitive nature on the mound, where I wasn’t worrying anymore about my mechanics or injury possibilities”.
Snell had really hit a rhythm deep in his rookie season, going nine straight starts allowing two earned runs or less, though that streak ended in his last start when he gave up four against Houston on Saturday. 3 and on May 1. You can talk about ground balls and all that but, at the end of the day, I just didn’t do my job. Cobb allowed only four hits and two runs in his five innings and struck out the side in the fifth. Toronto’s offense has taken three losses in the last five games, averaging just 4.2 runs per game behind some solid starts from the rotation.
As for the Boston Red Sox, the only team with a realistic chance at this stage of the season of knocking the Blue Jays off their American League East leading perch, they will continue their West Coast trip on Labour Monday afternoon (5:30 pm Atlantic/4:30 pm Eastern) when they open up a three game series against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park (September 5, 6 and 7) before they too will be allotted an off day in order to travel to Rogers Centre in Toronto for their all-important three game series against the Toronto Blue Jays next weekend. “He knows how to survive”.
Morrison put the Rays up 4-2 in sixth on his 12th homer off Marcus Stroman (9-6).
“We’ve been hitting some home runs lately, and it’s been nice to see that it led us to a win”, Rays manager Kevin Cash said.
All three batters Liriano faced in his first relief appearances with Toronto after four starts scored.
“I don’t think you ever judge anybody on one outing”, said Gibbons of Liriano.
“And maybe that third one will be eluding me in some games for a while but hopefully with the work that I’ll get in between starts here this week I’ll get back to feeling like I can go to any pitch at any point in the game”.
Tampa Bay Rays left fielder Corey Dickerson makes the catch on a fly-out by Toronto Blue Jays’ Russell Martin during the seventh inning of a baseball game Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016, in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Brad Boxberger and Kevin Jepsen provided little relief as the Jays rallied for a 5-3 victory in front of 13,884 at Tropicana Field.
Braves 2, Phillies 0 – Julio Teheran pitched six sharp innings, Matt Kemp homered, and visiting Atlanta beat Philadelphia for its sixth consecutive win. Tepera, RHP Danny Barnes, and OFs Darrell Ceciliani and Dalton Pompey were recalled from Triple-A Buffalo. They also selected the contract of LHP Matt Dermody from Buffalo and signed C Josh Thole to a major league contract. “OF Quintin Berry signed a minor league contract and might be called up next week”.
“It was nearly like debut-feeling again”, Cobb said.
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As big of a pain in the, umm, tail-feather the Tampa Bay Rays have been this season for the Toronto Blue Jays, they’ve so far managed to more than make up for it by beating up on the New York Yankees. “I appreciated that a lot”. Dioner Navarro, who seems to now exclusively hit well against Tampa Bay, hit a two-out dribbler on a 2-2 count to single home Edwin Encarnacion for the game’s first run.
