Marco Estrada leads Jays’ starting rotation for ALCS

The agency overseeing the vote, Elections Canada, said it would not stop voters from monitoring the game on smartphones while waiting in line at the polls, provided they do so peacefully.

An extraordinary seventh inning punctuated a playoff game last night between the Rangers and the Blue Jays.

Royals: RH Wade Davis (8-1, 0.94, 17 saves), RH Kelvin Herrera (4-3, 2.71), RH Ryan Madson (1-2, 2.13), LH Franklin Morales (4-2, 3.18), LH Danny Duffy (7-8, 4.08), RH Jeremy Guthrie (8-8, 5.95), RH Luke Hochevar (1-1, 3.73).

Boxes filled the Rangers clubhouse Thursday as players cleared out their lockers, though only a few were there when it was open to reporters.

“I don’t know how long it’s been going on”.

“I’m not a mind reader, I’m not a fortune teller, I don’t know if it’s going to be an issue”, manager Ned Yost said before his team’s workout.

“If people were really that galvanized to vote in the first place my assumption is they’ll find a way. Any more than that I won’t be getting into because we don’t talk about our operational plans”, Kwong said.

“Late in the season we went into Baltimore, had a chance to clinch and we clinched”, Gibbons said. It is impossible to explain what happens to him in the playoffs, but there is still time to change that narrative. The Royals rallied from a 3-1 series deficit to win in seven games, including road victories in Games 6 and 7, and went on to beat St. Louis for their only World Series title…. Yordano Ventura, who is scheduled to start Game 2 for the Royals, was 9-2 with a 3.56 ERA in the second half of the season; he has calmed down after a rocky start to the season and is back to throwing in the high 90s with off-speed stuff that he can throw for strikes.

Gibbons said he considered having Price start Game 1, but opted instead to get his starters back to their regular routines and four-day rest period between starts.

Toronto trots out a lineup that features Josh Donaldson (who might win the AL MVP award), Jose Bautista, Edwin Encarnacion and Troy Tulowitzki. After winning the first two games of the series on the road, Texas dropped two straight at home and lost the series finale in Toronto. Hamels and Diekman proved invaluable to the Rangers cause while adding pitching depth and strength that had been a weakness of the team earlier in the 2015 campaign. But Toronto was also favoured in the ALDS and they barely escaped that five game set.

He did not allow a hit until his 56th pitch, when Chris Colabello chopped a single up the middle with two outs in the fourth. Plus, left-handers Derek Holland and Martin Perez both returned this season from injuries and started ALDS games.