In Cleveland, Corey Kluber (10-8) limited Oakland to five hits in seven innings, Mike Napoli hit a two-run homer and the Indians completed a three-game sweep.
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Following Sunday’s 12-inning loss to the Baltimore Orioles, Toronto Blue Jays’ manager John Gibbons told reporters that shortstop Troy Tulowitzki has suffered a “small little chip fracture” in his right thumb. “I just couldn’t grip a bat, but obviously I’m good enough to still play defence, so we’ll see how fast we can get the swelling out, see how it feels (Monday), and go from there”.
Given his importance to the team, it’s in the Blue Jays’ interest to go day-to-day before placing him on the disabled list. “We’ve got to do our part to try to counter them”. “I think going into the year I knew it was going to be a career high in innings, something that I strove for in the off season”.
On the positive side, O’s ace Chris Tillman rebounded from a rough outing against the Colorado Rockies July 26 – six runs in five innings – with a solid start in Toronto.
“We came here in first place, we’re leaving that way”, Showalter said. “It’s going to be tough”.
Rangers 2, Royals 1: Mitch Moreland homered with two outs in the ninth to give Texas the win. But Gray (5-10) was removed from the game after 3 1/3 innings, having given up seven runs and eight hits. Pedro Alvarez walked to lead off the inning, and he was balked to second base. Alvarez scored when Schoop singled to left with one out.
First pitch at 6:10pm.
Toronto’s offense got hit during the bottom of the 5th inning by second baseman’s Devon Travis homer to center.
Toronto goes for the sweep tomorrow with Aaron Sanchez on the mound.
The Orioles tied it 2-2 in the seventh as Sanchez walked Davis and that was followed by a hard smash down the third base line by Trumbo that eluded Barney. His previous his was 133 1-3 between Double-A, Triple-A and the majors in 2014. Toronto intends to reduce Sanchez’s workload by moving him to the bullpen at some point. “That’s all I can really say right now”. I feel like it’s been that way all year. Joaquin Benoit, Roberto Osuna, Jason Grilli, and Brett Cecil posted the zeros for the Jays, while Darren O’Day, Brad Brach, Zach Britton and Mychal Givens would keep things rolling along for the O’s.
And since the Blue Jays may need an extra arm after a heavy workload for the bullpen over the weekend, and with Josh Donaldson experiencing soreness in his left calf Saturday making the need for an extra infielder more pressing, there could be a few moves coming.
Colon (9-6) faltered in his first start on three days’ rest since 2005, while slugger Yoenis Cespedes left mid-game because of a nagging quad injury.
Brian Dozier homered twice as the Minnesota Twins beat the Chicago White Sox 6-4, the Atlanta Braves were 2-1 winners over the Philadelphia Phillies and the Tampa Bay Rays claimed a 5-3 victory over the New York Yankees.
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Sanchez was once again on the top of his game, nearly toying for the most part with a good-hitting Baltimore team on Sunday, but it was not enough as the Orioles were able to produce a 6-2 win in 12 innings. Actually, Arrieta has been much more human of late, going 1-3 over his past six games with a 5.45 ERA.
