The Blue Jays had runners on base in five of the first six innings and had men in scoring position in four of the first five innings against Quintana but could not get a hit when it counted.
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The White Sox recalled right-hander Daniel Webb from Triple-A Charlotte and optioned right-hander Miguel Gonzalez to Charlotte ahead of Tuesday evening’s game at the Toronto Blue Jays.
TORONTO (AP) – Marco Estrada was insistent that a bout of shoulder soreness won’t bother him in his next start. Strikeouts aided Quintana tonight, as he struck out ten Blue Jays hitters in six innings of work.
“Q came out and pitched his butt off, which we love to see”, Eaton said. Given how White Sox lefty Jose Quintana stymied Jays’ hitters all night, it was more than enough offence.
Estrada (1-2) gave up one hit through six innings but was knocked out in the seventh.
Athletics 5, Tigers 1: Rich Hill tossed seven shutout innings and Marcus Semien hit a two-run homer, leading Oakland past Detroit at Comerica Park. “I was feeling pretty good but it just kind of got away from me”. The White Sox won the last game 10-1, continuing a five-game winning streak.
Wednesday’s shut-out marked the first time the Jays have gone scoreless since September 13 against the Yankees.
Jeanmar Gomez, Philadelphia’s fourth pitcher, got Harper to ground out to third with a man on first in the ninth to end the game and earn his fifth save.
I don’t know what the final score was, but apparently, Toronto got hammered. “I always try to fill up a zero every year”.
“I felt pretty good all night but I was just really frustrated with the way things turned out and I felt like I didn’t do my job in the end”. There was nothing else I could I do. “I’m thankful April is over, let’s put it that way”.
Then again, maybe none of the breaks the Sox received would’ve mattered, as Austin Jackson welcomed Jesse Chavez with an RBI triple to right center to make it a 3-0 game.
That drew the ire of the Rockies, who weren’t too pleased with home plate umpire Lance Barrett’s low strike zone. It was the first ejection of the season for Gibbons, who came out and continued arguing with Tumpane and crew chief Dan Iassogna.
The Blue Jays have struck out 217 times this season, the second-highest tally in the majors, trailing only the Houston Astros, who have fanned 224 times. What is also starting to become clear is the fact that the Chicago White Sox are a better team than most gave them credit for heading into the 2016 season.
In the bottom of the sixth, Eaton caught an Edwin Encarnacion line drive on the warning track, bouncing off the chain-link fence of the visitors’ bullpen for the out.
The Blue Jays will return home to host the Texas Rangers for 4 games following the Tampa series.
Third baseman Josh Donaldson started at DH Monday because of lingering soreness after being hit on the left leg by a pitch Saturday.
White Sox: LHP John Danks (0-3, 6.23) is to start the opener of a four-game series at Baltimore on Thursday.
White Sox reliever Dan Jennings took to Twitter earlier on Tuesday to plead with his credit card provider, Bank of America. Danks last pitched April 21 against the Angels.
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