Marco Estrada to start ALCS opener for Blue Jays

Instead, to Jay’s fan’s pleasure, Odor threw a low ball that first baseman Mitch Moreland could not field cleanly.

Best buddy Marcus Stroman said of him the other day: “Sanchez has been unbelievable”.

“When he hit it, there was a bunch of people in the dugout who were, like, cussing, because we didn’t think he could get it out”. And the same thing for guys who are banged up.

Josh Donaldson celebrates after sliding home with the winning run. Tulowitzki, standing in the on-deck circle, figured Donaldson would make it. His instincts are second to none.

“First of all spend time with my family, but you know, after that I’m just going to keep working hard”, said Rookie Nomar Mazara. Since grabbing that momentum, they haven’t looked back. What if Michael Saunders finds whatever it was that he lost? Tough ball club to shut down. “That’s not luck. I’ll argue with anybody that wants to say it’s luck. That was a play that he made without fear”.

And it nearly felt written. If removed from the roster during the ALDS, he is ineligible for the AL Championship Series should the Jays advance. Even with the bumps and bruises and pains of a full season there as daily reminders of how they fought literally and figuratively to be here, they feel like themselves, like the team they believed they could be, even as David Price left for Boston and the impending free agency of Encarnacion and Bautista lent this season even more urgency.

Only two games into the divisional round playoffs and we have a quite likely upset in our hands. And still a brace of Rangers who were issued strolls within the first four frames came round to score.

Odor led the Rangers in home runs during the season, but hit none in the first two games. That spanned 28 innings, in which they allowed 21 hits and seven walks, or, a 1.00 WHIP. Toronto will host Games 3 and 4 and, if necessary, Game 5. Toronto LHP Francisco Liriano (concussion), who was hit in the head by a line-drive single on Friday, was replaced on the ALDS roster by RHP Danny Barnes. The Jays tied it in the bottom of the sixth on a passed ball with the bases loaded.

Baltimore Orioles’ outfielder Hyun Soo Kim was trying to catch a fly ball in the seventh inning of their game against the Blue Jays in Toronto, when he was nearly hit by a beer can tossed from the stands, noted CablePulse 24. They were running out of arms.

A bullpen that needs a healthy Roberto Osuna, now and in the future. Better get it done.

The Texas Rangers cleaned out their lockers on Tuesday, and packaged up those invaluable, priceless “2016 AL West Champs” T-shirts. He was dealing, and the heart of the order was up. Lord, was Bush pitching.

What if the Blue Jays can still hit the snot out of the ball? .

Gil Lebreton writes that it was the starting pitching and erratic bats that sent the Rangers home early. Either way, this felt fitting. Carlos Beltran, Beltre, Odor and Jonathan Lucroy, the middle of the Rangers’ lineup, went a combined 7-for-44 (.144) with three RBIs, four runs scored and six strikeouts.

Both bullpens gave up little in relief of their starters.

What was it Martin said after Game 1, against this rival team? There was no shoving, no punches, no hitting batters. Don’t buy into the conventional wisdom that dinger-mashing teams don’t do well in October because they do just fine.

Despite the fact that the Blue Jays have now won four straight playoff games, and 6 straight overall (including the end of the regular season), this is a team battling injury and fatigue. Toronto is at plus-105.

Encarnacion wasted no time belting a home run in the first inning to give the Blue Jays a 2-1 lead.

Coming into the game, Toronto had outhomered Texas 6-0 in the series with six different Jays swinging for the fences. “We saw in our games in Cleveland how much support we have”. The text read, “Your turn”. Fortunately for the Blue Jays, that wasn’t an issue.

Well, sometimes life is about second chances.