Hopefully, a day off and a change of scenery can break the Jays’ bats out of their slump. “It’s a tough team over there”. His 49 quality starts since 2014 are tied with Sale for fifth in the AL, and he has eight during a stretch where he’s gone 4-1 with a 1.63 ERA over his last nine outings.
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Sale carried a one-hitter into the seventh inning, retiring 13 straight batters before Edwin Encarnacion homered. Like Chris Sale on Tuesday, Quintana held the Jays to just four hits, while striking out 10.
Chicago completed a three-game sweep of Toronto, and Navarro contributed by driving in two runs.
Gibbons says players “come and go” in baseball.
Red Sox 11, Braves 4: David Price recovered from one of the worst starts of his career to match his career high with 14 strikeouts and help Boston hand Atlanta their seventh straight loss.
3B Todd Frazier was 2-for-4 Wednesday in the 4-0 win over the Toronto Blue Jays to extend his hitting streak to five games. Toronto has dropped five of seven overall and mustered only four hits while scoring its fewest runs of the season Tuesday. Instead, it caromed back into play and over the head of the outfielders on the rebound, allowing Navarro to reach third for a stand-up, two-run triple. “I’m thankful April is over, let’s put it that way”.
Encarnacion hit his third home run of the season, and 200th as a Blue Jay, into the fan deck on the second level above the center-field fence in the seventh inning.
White Sox starting pitcher Jose Quintana worked out of jams in the 3 and 5 inning, as he left two runners on in each inning. The White Sox have a 12-0 record when outhitting opponents. “Dear (at)BankofAmerica please don’t deactivate my credit card, yes I actually am in Canada, ” he wrote. Those Stroman and Storen looks about sum up the bullpen: They did the Blue Jays zero favours. “I threw him a good change-up down and away and he hit it. Just tip your hat to that, there’s nothing else I could have done”.
About three hours before Monday’s game against the Chicago White Sox, Marcus Stroman bounded into the Blue Jays’ clubhouse at the Rogers Centre, fist-pumped some teammates sitting in the corner and then sat down with them for an animated bull session. Blue Jays: C Russell Martin (neck spasms) was scratched from the lineup for the third straight game and replaced by Josh Thole.RHP Daniel Webb was recalled from Triple-A Charlotte on Wednesday.
The hit came off Carlos Estevez (0-1), who made his third appearance in the majors and was working his second inning. Drew Hutchison was optioned back to Buffalo to make roster room for Dominguez.
White Sox: LHP Jose Quintana (2-1, 1.82) puts his flawless record in Toronto on the line.
Elsewhere it was: Cardinals 8, Diamondbacks 2; Pirates 9, Rockies 4; Cubs 4, Brewers 3; Twins 6, Indians 5; Giants 1, Padres 0; Mariners 11, Astros 1; Marlins 6, Dodgers 3; Angels 9, Royals 4.
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Chicago ace Jake Arrieta and Milwaukee right-hander Taylor Jungmann got an unexpected night off as cold weather and the likelihood of rain prompted officials to postpone the second game in a scheduled three-game series at Wrigley Field.
