LEADING OFF: Blue Jays try for team-record 12th straight win

Jacoby Ellsbury has also homered off Price and is hitting. “I had a good life on baseball fields”, he said. It didn’t work out. You don’t see them joking around in the dugout or doing any stupid celebrations on the field.

David Price took a 3-0 lead into the eighth before New York rallied.

In Cleveland, Brian McCann hit a three-run homer, Stephen Drew also connected and New York halted a five-game slide.

While the Jays’ franchise-tying 11-game winning streak brought some fans out of the woodwork, others have always been going strong.

They tuned into the game on their tablet, sitting around the campfire.

Dellin Betances struck out Jose Bautista to start the bottom of the eighth and retired Edwin Encarnacion and Justin Smoak – on a long drive to center that initially appeared to have a chance to clear the fence – to end the inning.

The Blue Jays are still adding pieces. A-Rod lined out to Pillar in centre, moving Ryan up to third.

With Toronto just a hit away from a walk-off victory, the standing crowd of 46,689 fans had found its voice again – and then some.

The Blue Jays are 58-28 when they hit at least one home run. “So I choke up a little bit and I got a better pitch to hit”. It was his third hit of the night and second double.

Sanchez escaped the inning without allowing any more runs.

Gibbons could have taken Price out after seven innings and 100 pitches.

That run ended Buehrle’s day.

Gibbons dismissed the notion that the loss could negatively affect his team.

There are far too many games left to call Friday night a season-saver. “We don’t have a bunch of young kids who ride that emotional roller- coaster”. “I think it was kind of crap, but we’ll move on”.

“Hopefully its gives us confidence, ‘ manager Joe Girardi said”.

The Blue Jays announced they were postponing the 3:30 p.m. start to the news conference, just as Price tweeted a photo of his gray sports vehicle being loaded onto a truck.

David Price had given him seven shutout innings.

The Blue Jays have been on a phenomenal run since general manager Alex Anthopoulos started making deals in the week leading up to the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline, with the sweep of the Yankees in The Bronx making it 11 wins in 12 games since Troy Tulowitzki reported for duty.

Beltran, a wily veteran, schooled Sanchez, the kid reliever a couple weeks out of a rehab stint in Buffalo. In 2003 the Keith Hampshire and the Bat Boys song was remixed by Rob Wells and Chris Anderson into what to hear at the ballpark today. Jim Johnson (3-4) was charged with eight runs in two-thirds of an inning.

“I was missing over the plate a lot with my cutter and my fastball”, Hughes said.

That opening strike was not down in the ground-ball range, but up above the waist at about 97 miles per hour.

The right-hander was lifted after 89 pitches with two on in the seventh. But he didn’t elevate it enough and Beltran crushed it for what would eventually be a game-winning home run.

Instead it was right where Beltran could hit it. I guess this time I was able to read what they were trying to do to me.

In addition to Revere, the Phillies sent cash to Toronto in exchange for right-handed pitchers Jimmy Cordero and Alberto Tirado. “We just have to brush it off. We’ve got to let that go”.

“You can’t leave”, Moseby said Friday. The teams will turnaround quickly and play a matinee on Saturday.