Jays’ Price was ‘ready to go’ late in Game 3

The Jays plan all hands on deck in another must-win game Monday, with starting pitchers David Price and Marcus Stroman both available to come out of the bullpen if needed to back up veteran knuckleballer R.A Dickey against Rangers starter Derek Holland. If not, it’s likely that the Jays will win their first game away from home. The Blue Jays just need one break out game to feel like they are back in this series. “We knew that Toronto was going to be ready to play today”.

There will be no Division Series sweeps this year. But there were still questions surrounding Estrada heading into the postseason until he answered all of them Sunday, tossing 6 1/3 innings of one-run baseball. “Good enough to go, good enough to play and tons of treatment, to be honest with you”, Tulowitzki said in the postgame press conference when asked about his health.

(AP Photo/Gregory Bull). New York Mets shortstop Ruben Tejada, goes over the top of Los Angeles Dodgers’ Chase Utley who broke up a double play during the seventh inning in Game 2 of baseball’s National League Division Series, Saturday, October 10, 2015 i… “I’m not going to sit here and tell you what I learned, defeats the objective, but yes, I saw a few things and I’ve got to go out there and try to use that, I’ve also got to use my strength and find a few other weaknesses on them, too”.

The Rangers did not have a base-runner until third baseman Hanser Alberto hit a two-out double in the bottom of the third inning.

Keuchel struck him out and left the game having allowed one run on five hits and three walks, with seven strikeouts. The victory for first-year manager Jeff Banister’s team made road clubs 5-0 in the playoffs so far – the only previous time that happened in the postseason was the 1906 all-Chicago World Series, STATS said.

“He was spotting his fastball, great changeup and I thought he used his curveball real well”.

Odor hit. 259 in 114 games as rookie last season, when he was the youngest player in the majors as a 20-year-old, making his debut in May 2014. These are encouraging numbers on a surface level, and his splits could benefit a righty-heavy Blue Jays lineup.

The bases were still loaded in the fourth when Navarro had an inning-ending 4-6-3 double play a pitch after a hard foul down the third-base line.

Estrada retired the first eight batters, thanks in part to Pillar’s leaping catch against the centre-field wall, the sort of larceny Pillar has routinized in the past six months.

Unfortunately for Gonzalez, Tulowitzki would take him deep in the next at-bat and the Rangers would be put in a 5-0 hole.

Perez struggled with his command again in the fourth inning, when he walked Troy Tulowitzki, his third of the inning, to score Josh Donaldson.

We don’t know if Adrian Beltre will be in the lineup tomorrow, but that would be a huge boost for these guys. “You win one, it kind of gets you going”. “They actually weren’t very aggressive early on and we were trying to get ahead early on”.