Benoit likely to miss rest of regular season with torn calf

The Toronto Blue Jays will send Francisco Liriano (8-13, 4.88 ERA) to the mound tonight to face Chris Tillman (16-6, 3.84) with pivotal Wild Card seeding on the line. The Tigers are two games behind Baltimore for the second and final wild card spot in the American League.

Gausman had been the Orioles best pitcher over the last five weeks, even though he hasn’t really been the same his last two starts since suffering a mild intercostal strain.

Mark Trumbo drove in a run for the Orioles (85-72). “He’s got a big-time fastball”.

Carrera homered in the third, walked ahead of Donaldson’s blast and added a single, scoring three times in all. The Orioles will also be looking to record their first win of the season against the Barstow native, as Sanchez owns a ideal 3-0 record and a rock-solid 3.38 ERA versus the Birds over four starts on the year.

Having faced the Orioles so frequently, Sanchez changed his pitch selection to keep Baltimore off-balance.

“Not many people are going to agree with me, but it’s about some things”, said the 39-year-old relief specialist. “I was able to locate my heater when I needed to”.

Baltimore leads Detroit by one game for the league’s final playoff spot.

“I don’t know what it is about [playing in Toronto]”, Gausman said, “But hopefully we can come back tomorrow and try to get one and then the next day after that try to win the series”. Manager Buck Showalter wasn’t far behind, as he was tossed a few moments later.

A tweaked shoulder injury suffered one night earlier during that bench-clearing brawl with the Yankees kept Devon Travis, the Blue Jays usual leadoff hitter out of the lineup.

Toronto manager John Gibbons said later that his players were exhausted of rivals taking liberties. Carrera advanced to second on the throw and scored on a fielders choice from an Edwin Encarnacion ground ball for a 5-1 Toronto lead.

“We play with a lot of passion, we play with a lot of heart – we’re not boring”, Stroman said after the game.

Sale (17-9) allowed three runs on eight hits in seven innings, struck out seven and walked none in his 31st start, which possibly could be his last for the White Sox.

Anthony Rendon hit a go-ahead three-run homer in the sixth inning and Max Scherzer won his 19th game as the Washington Nationals came back to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 4-2 despite getting just three hits.

“Teams pitch us inside, no doubt about that”, Gibbons said. The team are in the midst of what is most likely their biggest series of the season against the Baltimore Orioles. LHP Wade Miley left the team and returned home for the birth of his first child, a son. He nearly got hit in the face again, Yankee Stadium, last time we were there.

A pair of Toronto Blue Jays players were injured while scuffling on field with the New York Yankees as benches cleared Monday night. Travis is day to day after jamming his surgically repaired shoulder in the same melee with NY.

Brady Dragmire DFA’d to make room on the 40-man roster for Chris Smith. Some of our familiar opponents will most certainly still be at the top of their game – namely the Rangers and Red Sox – but I will take a look at a team I’m familiar with – the Toronto Blue Jays.

He has a 2.95 ERA since mid-July, almost a half-run lower than his pre-all-star break ERA of 3.36. The Yankees appeared to think this was retaliation for Luis Severino grazing Josh Donaldson on the elbow pad with a pitch in the first inning.