Tulowitzki has 4 RBIs as Blue Jays rout fading Yankees 9-0

The Blue Jays (84-69) maintained their hold on the first American League wild-card spot while dealing a blow to the wild-card chances of the Yankees (79-74).

Liriano says some adjustments and familiarity have fuelled his turnaround. But Russ lately has just been on fire, really turned his season around.

“Having said that, he’s going to help me, help us in every single facet of baseball operations, his experiences as a GM, with emphasis and passion for amateur scouting”.

The Yankees will need a sweep to tie the Blue Jays in the standings, but are only three games behind the Tigers for the second spot. This was not considered a close game. I throw to first, they were booing me. “We’re not out of it but we’re definitely not in a good position”.

Then again, like I mentioned before there have been a few times over the past few weeks where you thought that maybe now was the time for the turnaround. We have some issues, in a sense.

“We’ll manage it start to start”. Hard to believe he was particularly surprised or offended by the question, but at this point Girardi’s clearly out of nice ways to explain his team’s down-the-stretch collapse. Toss in a fielding error and erratic starting pitching, et voilà! The rebuilding Yankees, it seems, are acting their age. The energy of late August and early September has disappeared in a haze of harsh reality.

“It’s tough, man”, closer Dellin Betances said, quietly. “Trying to climb, climb … all year, climbing”.

– Yankees hitters hit.226/.304/.371 (14-for-62) vs. left-handed pitchers in the Tampa Bay series after hitting.368/.417/.632 (28-for-76) against lefties in Boston.

“Listen”, Brett Gardner said. “We’ve leaned on him for the second half of the season”. “And try and score some runs”.

The Blue Jays struck early and appeared ready to run away with the game. He settled in to actually give the Yankees a good start. Not put pressure on us that we must win. Votto has been one of the best power hitting players in the Major League Baseball during his career and a move to a contending team could rejuvenate the veteran and increase his numbers in 2017.

The Jays plays visiting Baltimore three times between the Yankees and Red Sox series. The Yankees display a similar style, since their offense has received a major overhaul with the influx of young talent – specifically Gary Sanchez. For example, nobody on the team with the possible exceptions of Russell Martin and Edwin Encarnacion, hit the ball any harder than Troy Tulowitzki, who had nearly nothing to show for it. Tulowitzki went 4-for-29 with one homer and two RBI. After the first-string relievers – Betances, Clippard, Warren, Layne, Severino – Parker has set himself apart as the go-to second-string reliever.

More details will come to light on Monday during a public workshop where officials from both the city and the team will explain the ins and outs of the project.

Six innings was a new career high for Bryan Mitchell. “If there wasn’t an energy and you go and lose four in a row to Boston, you wouldn’t [have rebounded by winning] two out of three” against the Rays. Of his 58 hits, 31 have gone for extra bases.

But his club has ceased scoring, shut out for a second straight night. Crazier things have happened. “Just got to keep breathing”, he said. Instead, he gently dropped the bat in the batter’s box and did a backwards home run skip down the first base line while watching to see if his bomb would stay fair. For the final two months of the regular season, all they did was win.