Last year, when Edwin Encarnacion hit three homers at the Rogers Centre in a win over the Detroit Tigers, fans scattered the infield with hats, as Canadians do at hockey games when a player scores three goals in a game. He gave the Jays a 6-5 lead in the seventh inning when he drilled a two-run home run to center field off of reliever Pat Light.
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Chris Davis homered twice and Mark Trumbo hit his big league-leading 39th home run for Baltimore.
“Things just snowballed”, Molitor said.
Although the Toronto Blue Jays (73-56) are having another stellar season, they haven’t excelled in claiming wins during the ladder portions of them.
Twins: LHP Hector Santiago (10-8, 5.16) starts the opener of a three-game series at Cleveland on Monday.
Molitor said he had no issue with Kepler’s aggressive dive. “He’s capable of that, we have a few guys who are capable of doing something like that, it’s a rare feat”. Gibson surrendered a pair of solo home runs on the afternoon, coughing up shots to Josh Donaldson in the third and Troy Tulowitzki in the sixth. Donaldson was up to his old tricks again in the eighth when he hammered a homer to centre, this time off of Alex Wimmers – his first career three-home run game. “I don’t even know that I really heard them”.
“I’ve never had a curtain call before so that was nice”, Donaldson said. Encarnacion followed with an RBI single off the glove of Plouffe at third.
RED SOX 8, ROYALS 3 (at Boston) – Dustin Pedroia had four hits to extend his streak to 11 straight at-bats before bouncing into a double play with a chance to tie the major-league record and Boston topped Kansas City.
“To win championships, you have to beat the teams you should beat, today we were able to do that”, Dickey said. Their pitching staff as a whole tossed 52 innings while striking out 68 batters for a spectacular 1.73 ERA within the same crucial span.
What other plans does Atkins have or should have leading up to August 31, the last day major league teams can acquire players eligible for the post-season? “Any time he’s in there, he can go deep or steal a base or go first to third, first to home”. Tulowitzki hit a leadoff homer, his 22nd, and Kevin Pillar doubled and scored on a base hit by Devon Travis.
Light (0-1) took the loss while Scott Feldman (7-4) pitched 2/3 of an inning in relief for the win.
The Twins (49-80) scored a run in the first. Eduardo Escobar’s double to right field plated Eddie Rosario and advanced Sano to third.
The right fielder’s original mistake was diving to try to catch the sinking drive instead of letting it drop for a single. He was safe at second when on Donaldson’s throwing error on a forceout attempt on Brian Dozier’s grounder. Encarnacion hit his 36th homer and leads the AL with 105 RBIs.
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GIANTS 13, BRAVES 3: Joe Panik homered twice and matched his career high of four RBI to back Madison Bumgarner, and San Francisco won at home to remain two games behind the Dodgers in the NL West.
