Blue Jays clinch AL East with 15-2 win over Orioles

Although Toronto (91-65) holds a magic number of one to clinch the division, it is also is battling Kansas City (90-67) for the best record in the AL and home-field advantage in the playoffs.

Game 2 of Wednesday’s single-admission doubleheader was much less painful.

The Orioles had activated right-hander Miguel Gonzalez, who has recovered from right shoulder tendinitis and hasn’t pitched since August 30, for Tuesday’s start, so he’ll get the ball in Game 1.

With runners on second and third with two outs in the inning, Barney hit a grounder to the left of the mound that Garcia fielded and wildly threw past first base to score one run.

Michael Pineda and the Yankees began the day looking to lock up at least a wild-card, but that chance was washed away when Minnesota was rained out in Cleveland.

Phillies 4, Mets 3: Darin Ruf hit a three-run homer, and Philadelphia snapped New York’s franchise-record 11-game road winning streak. And they achieved the feat just as the 2015 club would have – they scored 15 runs on 18 hits in the first game of today’s doubleheader against the Baltimore Orioles.

Mark Buehrle gets wet by LaTroy Hawkins.

“He made a few really good adjustments, started to work a changeup in the mix and a curveball when he needed it”, Boston interim manager Torey Lovullo said.

Now 24, the right-handed future ace of Toronto’s staff is revelling in his comeback and the team’s turnaround.

The Blue Jays waited so long for this, there were two celebrations.

Toronto has gone on to win 39 of 53 games while skyrocketing to a six-game cushion over the Yankees. We didn’t pitch well and it can make you look that way.

Chris Davis led a four-home run attack with two solo shots, and starter Kevin Gausman shut down Toronto for eight innings as the Baltimore Orioles scored an 8-1 victory over the Jays in Game 2.

Those moves worked like a charm, making the Blue Jays’ 50-51 record in late July feel like a distant memory.

A year ago, Baltimore celebrated its first AL East title since 1997. “But in terms of these guys all being able to come together and be a group, we don’t have any doubts at all”.

“We played good baseball”, a drenched Price said. “Congratulations to them. They earned it. We had something that people came after and they took it from us”. He narrates his life on Twitter – his music, his clothes, his shoes, his friends, the scar on his knee, every phase of his rehab, his summer classes at Duke, photos from the clubhouse and charter flights, and maybe most of all, his smile. If somebody’s going to beat us, they’re going to have to play tremendously well.

After signing catcher Russell Martin to a US$82-million, five-year deal, Anthopoulos pulled the trigger on the trade that landed Donaldson from the Oakland Athletics for third baseman Brett Lawrie and prospects. “And even then I don’t know if it can happen”.