Blue Jays bounce back with Game 3 win to avoid a sweep

The Rangers scored nine runs in 14 innings against Blue Jays starters in Toronto, including five against ace David Price. Tons of treatment to be honest with you. I had a really good mentality going into this game. That’s just not going to cut it.

“It was definitely huge, ” Tulowitzki said. “A little breathing room, I think that’s the goal down 2-0”. That was two innings after he drew a bases-loaded walk.

“I don’t know how I took an extra two steps, but I was able to get there and tag him”, Cecil said. “He had that long layoff with the injury”. Keuchel has been asked about his home dominance often, and on Saturday, he jokingly supposed that “maybe it’s the temperature” set by the Minute Maid Park air conditioner. “We know we could do anything we wanted really”. That proved to be enough margin for error for Texas pitchers in a pair of two-run wins, although the Rangers needed two in the 14th to win Game 2.

Beating up on left-handed pitching has been the Blue Jays’ specialty all season and they got to Holland for six runs, including homers by Josh Donaldson, Chris Colabello, and Kevin Pillar.

“We’ve been in this situation before”.

Manager Jeff Banister calls Odor one of those players who will “completely will yourself to score” and with the sole goal to cross the plate.

“We’re all at Game 165 now”.

“Every day seriously could be your last game”, said Diekman, who did not pitch Sunday in Game 3, when Toronto beat Texas 5-1, cutting the Rangers’ series lead to two games to one.

He’ll take the mound for his first career postseason start Monday afternoon to face Rangers lefty Derek Holland, who has never lost in the playoffs.

In the third inning, Blue Jays backstop Marco Navaro drove a ball over Rangers center fielder Delino DeShields head for a lead-off double. “Mitch Moreland did the same tonight”. Tulo had been hitless in 11 at-bats this series before the home run.

The veteran pitcher said he was confident that he will get a chance to make another start.

Tulowitzki posted mediocre offensive numbers but was a big defensive upgrade for the Blue Jays after they acquired him in a blockbuster deal with the Colorado Rockies at the trade deadline. 179 postseason hitter until the homer.

In 2015, he led the Jays with 33 starts (tied for second in the AL), 214 1/3 innings pitched (fourth in AL) and 20 quality starts (tied for eighth in the AL).

Toronto’s first run scored in the third when Odor initially bobbled a grounder by Ryan Goins before reaching back with his right foot to touch the base and throwing the first to complete the first double play. Perez has also walked 24 batters against 48 strikeouts, while the Blue Jays are arguably the most patient team in Major League Baseball, boasting a 10.2-percent walk rate and.

Price surrendered five earned runs to Texas in Game 1 of this series, and owns a career 4.79 ERA in the playoffs.

He threw a season-high 124 pitches and stranded runners at first and third base in each of his final two innings.