Blue Jays’ Marco Estrada placed on DL, out for All-Star game

He when he was 13-8 with a 3.13 ERA in his first season with the Blue Jays, finishing 10th in AL Cy Young voting.

Aaron Sanchez is on a short list of four candidates to replace Toronto Blue Jays teammate Marco Estrada on the American League all-star team, Kansas City Royals manager Ned Yost revealed Wednesday.

Josh Donaldson homered twice and Troy Tulowitzki and Ezequiel Carrera hit one roundtripper apiece to lead the Jays over the Royals for the second straight night.

The Toronto Blue Jays have turned their season into high gear with an impressive month of June, and beginning of July, and the news gets better for the team.

I’m not even going to mention the fact that the Royals gave Young more than $17 million last offseason.

Estrada experienced severe discomfort during his last start, a 9-6 win over Cleveland on Saturday in which the 32-year-old threw 96 pitches over five innings. “There’s been a couple of times where his leg’s been beat up this year, so we’ll get him off his feet a little bit, keep his bat in there”.

Dickey said, “It’s great”.

“It’s a pretty good lineup over there”, Volquez said. “I’m a lot more consistent with it that I used to be”. It was a nice night for it, too. And a change is as good as a break.

Blue Jays: RHP R.A. Dickey (5-9, 4.21) is 0-6 with a 5.14 ERA in eight home starts. On Tuesday, Toronto got another win, this one 8-3. Kansas City fell to 16-29 in road games.

This will be game three of the early-week set.

Sanchez retired the first seven batters he faced and held the Royals hitless until Cheslor Cuthbert’s two-out single to center in the fifth.

The loss was the Rockies’ sixth in a row.
Mets 8, Marlins 6: Yoenis Cespedes’ two-run double with two outs in the eighth inning snapped a tie as NY overcame a six-run deficit to beat Miami at Citi Field.

Yost said Ventura will throw a bullpen session on Tuesday if he is able.

“It felt good until Philadelphia when I took a few awkward swings and reaggravated everything”.

“(Meanwhile, Dickey’s knuckleball) was really dancing. He was later tagged out at home while trying to score from second base on a Kevin Pillar base hit. Carerra and Donaldson then went back-to-back in the third before Tulowitzki put the game out of reach with a three-run shot in the same inning.

Donaldson has scored 77 runs, a franchise record for runs before the All-Star break.

Joe Biagini pitched a flawless eighth for Toronto before allowing a ninth-inning run on a single by Eric Hosmer and a double by Cuthbert.

NOTES: Donaldson has had eighth career multi-homer games and five with the Blue Jays.

Between Donaldson’s blasts, Carrera hit his fourth homer of the season in the third.

Designated hitter Edwin Encarnacion will make his third all-star game appearance after a strong first half to the season while right-hander Marco Estrada was named to the team for the first time all-star after a career-best start to 2016.

Young equaled a Royals record by allowing homers in 13 straight starts. Runelvys Hernandez gave up homers in 13 consecutive starts from October 2, 2005 to August 10, 2006. “Physically and mentally, I’ve done everything I can to prepare when I go out there, but the results aren’t there”. The 33-year-old leads the majors in RBIs and is tied for fourth in home runs.

Encarnacion has previously appeared at the all-star game in 2013 and 2014 – both with the Blue Jays.