Heck, the 1906 White Sox team known as the Hitless Wonders that won the World Series while hitting.230 with seven home runs all season allowed 3.0 runs per game. He could do it time after time, and that trust led to Estrada’s best season as a major-leaguer.RANGERS 10, YANKEES 1: A.J. Griffin pitched eight strong innings, Mitch Moreland hit a bases-loaded two-run single during a five-run third and the Texas Rangers beat the New York Yankees.
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Just before I switched the channel, the Blue Jays were losing 7-1.
Up against a formidable foe in White Sox ace Chris Sale, the right-hander allowed six runs and eight hits in six innings Tuesday night as the Toronto Blue Jays lost 10-1, their fifth straight loss to Chicago. Chicago’s sweep of Minnesota was no big deal, but at least the Chi Sox did it on the road earlier this month.
Maybe Quintana is just used to not having run support and is pitching under less stress, maybe he’s just lucky, but we can all hope that this will finally be the year that Quintana gets noticed on a national scale.
The victory made a victor out of left-hander Martin Perez (1-2) for the first time this season.
Yunel Escobar’s home run in the sixth inning snapped a 2-2 tie and helped lift the Los Angeles Angels to a 4-2 win over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday at Angel Stadium, completing a three-game sweep of the defending World Series champions.
Estrada (1-2) gave up one hit through six innings but was knocked out in the seventh. The D-backs have gotten to Wacha over three career starts, bashing him for eight runs on 17 hits in 15 2/3 innings.
Estrada, who was seen rubbing his shoulder in the dugout between innings, acknowledged feeling some soreness.
“That was a Toronto home run, that’s just the way the park is”, Dickey said of Navarro’s shot.
“You got to tip your hat to them”, Estrada said. He has won consecutive starts and lowered his ERA to 1.47.
“Every time he got in a tough spot, he got a little more on it”, manager Robin Ventura said.
Relievers Zach Duke, Nate Jones each pitched an inning for Chicago (16-6) before closer David Robertson came in for the ninth.
“I knew in that situation I needed to make something happen”, Navarro said. “I was fortunate enough to get a chanegup in the strike zone and put some good wood on it”.
Estrada, who worked nearly exclusively with Navarro when the two were teammates last season, gave his former catcher credit for hitting a good pitch.
“I filled up that zero”, he said. I don’t ever want to come out of any game and they gave me the opportunity to pitch my way out of it and it didn’t go my way.
Jesse Chavez relieved, and Austin Jackson tripled.
The Chicago White Sox are owners of the best record in the American League and continued to add to the win column with a 10-1 victory at the Rogers Centre on Tuesday. A perennial slow starter, he’s 5-12 in April since he joined the Blue Jays in 2013.
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NOTES: Catcher Russell Martin sat out a third straight game with neck spasms but Gibbons doesn’t expect Martin to need a stint on the disabled list. Donaldson returned to third base after starting at DH the previous two days.
