The Twins, Blue Jays and the Baltimore Orioles entered Tuesday in a three-way tie for the second American League wild card spot. They are 5-12 since the All-Star break.
New York Yankees’ Chase Headley takes off his batting helmet after grounding out to end the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays, Saturday, August 8, 2015, in New York.
Saturday afternoon, the Blue Jays rode David Price’s left arm to another win over the Yankees (TOR 6, NY 0), their sixth in eight games against New York this season.
Mauer is batting. 134 (6-for-34) with four walks and eight strikeouts in his career against LHP David Price, who started Monday for the Blue Jays. He allowed five hits and three runs in 5 2-3 innings.
Josh Donaldson hit a solo shot for Toronto in the first and the score was tied at one apiece until Jose Bautista homered in the 10th inning to lift the Blue Jays to a 2-1 win in New York.
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Volquez proceeded to throw high and inside to Donaldson in his next at-bat. Parra had spent the past six seasons split between the Arizona Diamond Backs followed by the Brewers.
Wolf warned each benches after Royals RHP Edinson Volquez hit Toronto’s Josh Donaldson within the first inning of Sunday’s recreation, a 5-2 Blue Jays win.
Toronto Blue Jays’ Josh Donaldson avoids a pitch by Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Edinson Volquez during the third inning of a baseball game against the Kansas City Royals in Toronto, Sunday August. 2, 2015.
With easily the most potent offense in all of baseball, the Blue Jays still find themselves only one game over. That the Blue Jays had somehow laid down a marker looking ahead to the Fall; that a dugout-clearing incident sparked when Sanchez’s 2-0 pitch kissed Escobar on...