Yankees blanked again, Blue Jays win 2-0 to finish sweep

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The Blue Jays took a 6-3 lead in the second when Bautista slugged a 3-1 changeup to center for his 24th homer of the season and fifth grand slam of his career. Shortstop Troy Tulowitzki has fit in nicely since he was acquired from the Colorado Rockies at the non-waiver trade deadline. But good pitching will stop the potent hitting, and Toronto managed to do that in three games. He’s an optimist. He sees the Yankees in first place and says they control their own destiny. “You’re not going to rattle him”.

“I made better pitches”, said Price. “And he’s been really tough on left-handers”.

The Blue Jays have lost 52 times this season.

Duffey lasted two innings, forcing Molitor to go to his bullpen early anyway.

Kang’s three-run homer capped a nine-run seventh inning and Andrew McCutchen homered and drove in four runs as the Pittsburgh Pirates rallied for a 13-6 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday night. “They’ve got a better team now than they had a week or two ago”. He’s the first player in the club’s history to win each of his first 11 starts. It’s hard to imagine a fan being able to get enough velocity behind a baseball, especially when fueled up with a few $12 Bud Lights, but it’s still never pleasant getting hit in the back with a baseball, or even worse, the head.

Gibbons was not around for the game’s more dramatic moments. “And that’s key in those big innings”. They have have scored four runs in five games and are scoreless in their last 26 innings – the Yankees’ longest such streak since 1991 when they went 32 innings without a run.

Tanaka kept them in the game, but the Yankee bats couldn’t get anything going at the plate.

“Sure”, said Gardner, when asked if he could’ve been seriously injured, although he didn’t flinch or look back at the stands after he was beaned. “I’ve been there before”. “Having that many years beneath your belt, you know how the game is, you know how it works”, Estrada said about Hawkins. Obviously the mental aspect of it – he understands the game, he’s very confident. “Today it just didn’t work out for him”.

Even as the Blue Jays hovered around. Their superstars – Josh Donaldson, Jose Bautista, Price and Tulowitzki – are performing like superstars, and their confidence as a ballclub continues to soar.

Instead, a total of 11 runs were scored across all three games, with the Yankees scoring only once-a Mark Teixeira solo homer in Friday’s extra-inning 2-1 loss. It was the first time since May 2003 that Toronto swept New York in a series of at least three games. Now, they’re the hottest team in the American League, they’re coming off a three-game sweep of the Yankees in New York and, suddenly, you can mention Blue Jays and the World Series in the same sentence without sounding like a complete moron.

Almonte’s home run was the 28th allowed this season by Phil Hughes, a major league high. Righthander Kendall Graveman, a prospect who accompanied Lawrie to Oakland in that trade, will take the mound for the A’s in Tuesday’s opening game. It was clear Nova was done Saturday in the sixth, after he gave up two walks and a single.

Duffey said, “I tried to make stuff too good instead of just doing what I’ve been doing and it came back to bite me a couple of times”.