Blue Jays 2B Travis to miss second straight game

On May 15, Odor famously punched Bautista to spark a brawl in Texas, and the broadcast of Sunday’s game showed a fan-made sign declaring “I would rather get punched in May than get knocked out in October”.

Andrus, Mitch Moreland, Game 3 starter Colby Lewis and Derek Holland, the oft-injured left-hander left off the ALDS roster, are the only Rangers remaining from their first World Series in 2010.

Despite the fact that the Blue Jays have now won four straight playoff games, and 6 straight overall (including the end of the regular season), this is a team battling injury and fatigue. “We are not cool right now if you did not have a good slide”. He’s 22 now, with a full season under his belt (instead of just a month, like last year), and he’s belted two homers in the first two games of the NLDS against Washington.

Last year, the Blue Jays banned selling beer cans in the upper deck at their stadium during the AL Championship Series.

Toronto’s offence is a big reason why the team has moved on to baseball’s final four. The Blue Jays’ adjusted ERA suggested they had one of the top-10 rotations in franchise history, just behind staffs that featured Roy Halladay in his prime, Roger Clemens at his chemical peak, and Dave Stieb feat.

Edwin Encarnacion, who had three RBIs in the game, was walked intentionally before Jose Bautista struck out. “But we don’t make excuses”. Not exactly a Bautista bat flip, but the win is the only thing that matters. “We’re doing our job”. “Feeling better and better about him being a part of the ALCS, which is why we didn’t replace him”.

“Devon, every day is better”, Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins said in a conference call. We were optimistic that he would turn the corner and it seems like he is.

The Toronto bullpen, which has been worked hard in recent weeks, could also use the break.

Moreland, who saw the throw coming from Odor was offline, was attempting to hold Donaldson at third.

The importance of Tulowitzki’s hit can be measured in a couple of ways: by the score, obviously, and by win probability, a means of charting the likelihood of one team eventually winning at any given point in the game. The question looms, should they extend a qualifying offer to the two sluggers?

“He had an awesome day”, Atkins said.

Reliever Joaquin Benoit, who tore his calf muscle in a late-season melee between the Jays and Yankees, is making progress. “You don’t know how far the ball is going to trickle away from the first baseman but obviously a great job on him by being heads up and taking a huge risk”. We have to slug it out.

The Kansas City Royals had the best record in the American League in 2015. Game 5, if necessary, would be played on Wednesday at 5:08 p.m. PT on TBS. The Rangers were never really in the series, and ended up losing two games started by the team’s rental ace, Cliff Lee.

The Blue Jays had other incidents with fans throwing debris when the Rangers played a post-season game. “We were sure it was going to be a hit”.

The first two games of the series were a mirror images of last year’s ALDS, when Texas came to Toronto and won twice only to lose the next three.

With three more days off before Toronto plays Game One in Cleveland on Friday, it’s worth revisiting how the Jays got there – specifically, how each of their wins over Texas came to be, and the moment when victory was more or less assured.