Are they confident? You bet. The A’s have settled for being unlucky in 2015, while the Blue Jays are still fighting.
Advertisement
The Blue Jays have trailed in just two of 100 innings during their winning streak. Toronto has trailed in only two of 100 innings during its current string.
The Yankees (62-51) have already been victimized by them during this streak, getting outscored 10-1 last weekend in a three-game sweep in the Bronx.
The A’s are now listing Gray as day-to-day and his status for his next start will be updated.
“He’s a magician out there and always has been”, Goins said. McCann’s three-run homer in the first inning and Drew’s solo homer in the second gave the Yankees a 4-0 lead in a game in which they never trailed.
“I think he went in with the right attitude”, Athletics catcher Josh Phegley said.
As Mr. Osuna worked his magic – and at this stage it still does feel like magic – Mike and Annie Gilbert stood peacefully in the WestJet Flight Deck centre-field bar area, cradling cans of beer and keeping an eye between pitches on their slumbering 14-month-old son Jeffery, newly outfitted in a personalized Jays jersey that cost $150.
Trevor Plouffe hit a two-run homer and Aaron Hicks had a solo shot for the Twins, who matched a season worst by losing their fifth straight.
A good night for the offense backed starter Nathan Eovaldi who allowed four runs in 5.1 innings but still picked up his team-leading 12th win of the season. Gray first felt sore Wednesday night.
“It was tough not to see Sonny in there”. The Jays have had seven sellouts athis season, but not all sellouts are the same and these will be decidedly different.
“I’ve got all the jerseys and wear them to work”. An August day that dawned with the Blue Jays alone in first place is a modern rarity – it hasn’t happened this late in the season, since (according to statisticians of Toronto mediocrity) the glorious World Series year of 1993. And they proved it against one of the Twins’ best minor-league pitchers on Wednesday. “I just wasn’t going to do it, especially after a loner, for a guy you’re going to have three months or so”. New York failed to score in the final 26 innings of that series and dropped to 2-7 versus Toronto.
Since the Jays are Canada’s only remaining baseball team, Niccals said she’d hope the fans will show a little more consistency and patriotism.
Proper-hander Bo Schultz changed Buehrle within the eighth. Marcus Semien hit a leadoff single and Billy Burns tripled past a diving Pillar in center.
“It was one of those games”, Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said.
The bullpen is on a 23-inning scoreless streak.
Blue Jays: 1B Edwin Encarnacion (left middle finger) sat out his fourth straight game….
Advertisement
Oakland heads to Baltimore on Friday to face the Orioles for four games at Camden Yards, the symbol of everything the A’s have been able to nothing about in Major League Baseball. Even still, the secondary market for tickets for the crucial weekend series with the Yankees has seen prices continue to climb. While 0-1, he’s only given up three ER, and has demonstrated confidence, mixed with the determination to battle and get big-league hitters out.
