Estrada gets start for Game 1 of ALCS

“George was right next to me”. One of the craziest elimination games in Jays history was packed with controversy, excitement, and hatred.

An already magical season for Glendale Community College product Marco Estrada will be taken to another level when the 32-year-old pitcher gets the start in the opening game of the American League Championship Series for the Toronto Blue Jays versus Kansas City in Missouri on Friday at 4:30 p.m. But understandably, he feels weakness in the calf muscle, especially when he balances on his left leg during his windup.

“We were at the railing, so I didn’t want to fall over”, Spaling said. Diekman and Dyson are also under contract, as are designated hitter Prince Fielder and every position player who started Game 5 in Toronto.

NOTABLE: David Price, the former Rays ace who is scheduled to start Game 2 for Toronto, is 2-0 with a 1.93 ERA in six career games against the Royals.

“Probably not a relationship-building move, ” manager John Gibbons said of his pitching strategy at the time.

But that doesn’t mean that his Royals-or the Blue Jays, for that matter-will brook any aggression. The officer, who was stationed behind home plate while Jose Bautista hit his historic three-run home run, is seen watching the ball and then giving an enthusiastic fist pump.

If you didn’t like the guy before, you should now.

Much like that 1985 Royals team, this one is built upon pitching and defense – hard-throwing starters and relievers, and enough speed to track down just about anything that stays in their park.

“It’s fun for them”, Crosby said of baseball’s celebrations.

Texas became only the third team to lose a best-of-five series after winning the first two games on the road.

“He’s a little baby, he was crying like a baby”, Volquez said of Donaldson.

Bautista’s bat-flip after his seventh-inning homer – deemed by the Rangers as an insult – nonetheless stands as an iconic moment for the Blue Jays.

“It’s not a conservative society much anymore, which is a shame”, he said, making it clear he’d prefer to discuss another topic. I have so far resisted writing “the baseball gods” in here but now give up.

There was plenty of emotion in that series, too. If I strike someone out I’m not jumping around. You’re trying to win this thing.

A Saskatoon couple among 49,000 fans packed into the Rogers Centre during Game 5 of the American League Divisional Series (ALDS) say they’re still reeling from the emotional rollercoaster of the game.

Kyle Schwarber seemed more impressed Thursday with Jose Bautista’s bat flip than he is with the uproar caused by the search for his celebrated homerun ball.