NEW YORK – Mookie Betts homered and scored two runs and Joe Kelly threw 7 1/3 innings of one-run ball to win his sixth straight start for Boston.
Russell Martin added a two-run homer for the high-scoring Blue Jays. “I feel like we’re great offensively, we’re great on defense”. I like what we have going right now.
“We’ve just got to keep pushing, keep playing the game the way we play and I think we’re going to do great things this year”.
Blue Jays: LHP Mark Buehrle (13-6, 3.60 ERA) has allowed nine runs and 14 hits, including three home runs, over 10 innings in his past two starts after winning his four previous decisions. Toronto went 21-9 in May 2014. “I’m still going out there trying to give us a chance to win”. No matter where you look, theres a good hitter that can do some damage.”.
His first-inning home run gave him 35 RBIs in August, setting a Blue Jays record for any month, and he has an extra-base hit in eight straight games.
“Double-E” (also known as #Edwing on twitter) was a monster at the plate hitting three homeruns, including a grand-slam, cashing in nine runs to lead the Toronto Blue Jays to a 15-1 thrashing against the Detroit Tigers yesterday afternoon. Encarnacion extended his hitting streak with a three-run homer off Buck Farmer in the first inning.
Encarnacion hit his third slam of the season, matching the club record shared by Carlos Delgado and Darrin Fletcher.
He hit his 30th of the season with two outs in the first.
Manager John Gibbons said his players’ confidence is soaring. That’s pretty obvious. Everything’s really clicking.
The Jays’ red-hot slugger is also now tied with Scott Rolen for the fourth-longest hitting streak in Jays’ history – three games back of Shawn Green’s record-setting 28-game streak set in 1999.
Hutchison, who could face the prospect of being the odd man out again if Marcus Stroman returns to the Jays in September, held the Tigers’ best hitters – Miguel Cabrera and Victor Martinez – off the bases entirely.
Not to be outdone Edwin Encarnacion, following his massive Homerun Hat-trick yesterday, deposited a ball just above the wall in right for his forth HR in two days. What will Edwin Encarnacion do for an encore?
“There’s really no words for it, ” Pillar said. It’s not something you want to see.
This was Encarnacion’s fourth multi-home run game this year and the 21st of his career. Pillar homered to left on a 0-2 count, Ru.Martin scored. Encarnacion has seven home runs and 25 RBIs this month and has raised his average from.241 to.269 in the process. Matt Carpenter hit an RBI single for the lead and Yadier Molina capped it with a two-run single.
“He was hot before we got here and he certainly hasn’t cooled off”, Ausmus said. “They were swinging the bats extremely well and we didnt pitch very well. “That’s not a good recipe”. SS Troy Tulowitzki was dropped to fifth in the lineup after leading off since joining Toronto in a July 28 trade with the Colorado Rockies…. He went 1 for 4 with a double and fanned twice. The manager said the move is “not necessarily” permanent. But as Encarnacion finished the day 3-for-5 with nine RBIs on the aforementioned trio of homers, we’ll say he earned his haul of head coverings. The veteran lefty was his reliable self on Sunday, allowing just one earned run over six solid innings. RHP Johnny Cueto (9-9, 2.94) goes for the Royals.
The Tigers left Toronto, not only being swept in three games by the Blue Jays, but being trounced.
SAN FRANCISCO – Lance Lynn pitched neatly into the eighth inning before leaving with ankle injury that’s not considered serious, beating San Francisco for the first time in his career as the St. Louis Cardinals blanked the Giants 6-0 Saturday.