Blue Jays win 9th straight, beat Athletics 4

According to oddsmakers from online sports book GT Bets, the Blue Jays are -195 money line favorites over the A’s while the over/under total is sitting at 9 runs with Kendall Graveman set to face Drew Hutchison in the pitching matchup.

That is not a bad turnaround in a span of about five months for a player that the Blue Jays originally felt would be lost for the entirety of the season.

Hutchison (11-2) allowed two runs and four hits in seven-plus innings. The home-and-road cap (and helmet, for that matter) arrangement lasted until midway in the 1993 season when the Jays completely dropped the white-panel cap and wore the all-blue version exclusively for all home and road games until their logo change after the 1996 season.

“You get into situations sometimes and you tend to try to do a little too much instead of just taking the foot off the gas a little bit and executing pitches”, Hutchison said. “I was down in the zone and elevated when I wanted to”.

Oakland’s Marcus Semien stated Hutchison “acquired fast outs when he wanted to” towards the last-place Athletics.

Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said the solid outing was exactly what Hutchison needed. After the double in the first, I got the next guy, and in the third, I had a big double play and ground ball out after that.

“It’s pretty fun to watch when he gets like that”, Toronto’s Chris Colabello said of Hutchison.

The players coming through trades to Toronto during the deadline also have been nothing but phenomenal for the Blue Jays, particularly shortstop Troy Tulowitzki, pitcher David Price, relievers LaTroy Hawkins and Aaron Sanchez, and outfielder Ben Revere.

The Blue Jays had an inning-ending double play overturned in the first that cost them a run when the next batter, Valencia, ripped a double past a diving Kevin Pillar in centre field to score Josh Reddick from first base.

On Sunday, they snapped the streak in style: The Yankees have now gone 26 innings without scoring, stretching back to the second inning of Friday night’s game.

Oakland wasn’t in front for long. That’s because even in the nightmare scenario in which Toronto overtakes them for the division, they’re in good shape to snag one of the two American League Wild Card spots. “I’m not sure when he’s going to be here, I think they’re out in Arizona now, whether he gets here tomorrow or after the off day [on Monday], we’ll adjust when that happens”.

Bautista made it 4-1 with a two-out homer into the second deck in the fifth, his 27th. The Toronto Blue Jays have won six straight home games.

The right-hander moved to 11-2 by going seven strong innings, allowing two runs on four hits while walking two and striking out six.

The second game will go Wednesday night with the Blue Jays altering their pitching plans with Mark Buehrle, who was scheduled to take the mound, flipping his start with R.A. Dickey.

The 24-year-old pitcher was given medical clearance to pitch on Tuesday for the first time after undergoing surgery in March to fix a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee that he injured during spring training.

Still, the Blue Jays will be careful to avoid any setbacks in Stroman’s recovery.

Braves starter Williams Perez matched Ramirez zero for zero until the eighth, when the Rays got their third hit of the game on an infield single by Asdrubal Cabrera.

It’s the primary time in Blue Jays historical past the workforce has recorded two nine-game profitable streaks in a season.