Blue Jays stay alive in Major League Baseball playoff series

The Rangers are 1-8 in ALCS games at home, and 8-5 on the road.

Delino DeShields and Beltre hit RBI singles to give Texas a 2-0 lead in the third.

“We’re facing their ace”, Gibbons said.

“You could tell early on, too, he was on”. “I’m pretty sure I saw a few daylight there”. “So job well done, but he’s been doing that all year”. Dioner Navarro is also expected to catch Estrada, the impacts of which we explored here yesterday. He did exactly what we wanted him to do. DeGrom fanned 13 for the Mets, and did not allow a run in seven innings.

Dickey has not faced the Rangers this year after going 0-2 with a 5.40 ERA in two starts in 2014. 183 since the all-star break to lead the majors.

There was little to get them fired up this game as Estrada was masterful. He just thought about getting the win. “You win one, it kind of gets you going”. You just feed off the crowd, especially at an opposing ballpark.

Walsh said city fire department officials had been on standby before personnel got the lock to function.

Tulowitzki kick-started the offence on a 3-2 changeup off reliever Chi Chi Gonzalez. Toronto was seen as the World Series favorite entering the postseason – 23 ESPN “experts” picked the series, and 23 picked Toronto – but now they must win three straight from Texas to avoid being first-round fodder. It’s up to Marco Estrada to keep the series alive in a matchup with Martin Perez at Globe Life Park.

Leading the series 2-1, Texas has another chance Monday to clinch it at home.

The Jays shortstop showed that patience, working the count until it was in his favour. The franchise post-season record is five by Tony Fernandez in 1993.

The Jays’ scheduled starters for Game 3 and 4, on the other hand, were among the league’s best pitchers in the second half. However he left with two outs in the 7 inning trailing 1-0 (and the bases loaded).

“We were in real good position all night long.

So that’s good news”, Gibbons said.

Manager Jeff Banister calls Odor one of those players that will “completely will yourself to score” and with the sole goal to cross the plate. “They get loud when their hitters are up, so if you can use that and stay on an even keel on the mound, I feel like it’s good”.

In the seventh, Estrada retired the first batter, then surrendered two consecutive singles, each one on the ground and just beyond the reach of an infielder.

SLUMP BUSTER: Josh Hamilton snapped an 0-for-31 postseason drought with a one-out single in the fifth, then added another hit two innings later.

After Donaldson struck out and Jose Bautista walked, Edwin Encarnacion flied out to the warning track in centre field.

The Cardinals rode the sizzling right arm of Lackey before rookies Tommy Pham and Stephen Piscotty blasted late home runs to help seal the victory in the first ever playoff contest between the National League rivals.

Roberto Osuna pitched a 1-2-3 ninth to close out the Toronto win.

But the shoulder certainly appeared hale and hearty in the sixth inning Sunday night.

Tulowitzki had been 0-for-10 in the series and was dropped to the sixth spot in the batting order for the first time this season. Teams that lost the first two games of a Division Series were 5-42.

Offensively the Jays hit into four double plays over the first six innings but that didn’t damper their enthusiasm or get them frustrated.

The Jays aren’t out of the woods yet as they face another elimination game Monday afternoon.