After enjoying a walk-off victory on Saturday afternoon to force a rubber match, the Toronto Blue Jays will close out their weekend set with the Detroit Tigers Sunday at Rogers Centre. Saturdays contest needed extra innings to be decided, and in the bottom of the 10th inning Danny Valencia got aboard with a leadoff single and Nolan Reimold plated him with an RBI double to lift the home team to victory. "It was a great day all the way around," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. "It was really the only way to end it." It was the second comeback of the afternoon for the Blue Jays on the afternoon. In the bottom of the ninth, Dioner Navarro delivered a game-tying RBI single. Jose Reyes went 2-for-4 with a pair of runs scored. Marcus Stroman was outstanding, completing nine innings and allowing just four hits and two earned runs, but it was Aaron Loup (4-3) who earned the win with a scoreless 10th. For the Tigers, Max Scherzer dominated for eight innings, yielding four hits and one earned run, striking out 11 and walking none. After Joe Nathan blew the save in the ninth, Joba Chamberlain (1-5) gave up the walk-off hit. Detroit opened up a 2-0 lead in the sixth inning on a two-run double by Victor Martinez, one of just four hits for the squad on the afternoon. Tigers newcomer and Sunday starter David Price was strong in his Detroit debut on Aug. 5 at Yankee Stadium despite serving up a pair of home-run balls. He pitched 8 2/3 innings in the no-decision, allowing three earned runs with 10 strikeouts and zero walks. "(Im) happy its over and happy we won," Price said. "Finally feel part of the team." On the season, Price is 11-8 with a 3.11 ERA. He also leads the majors in strikeouts (199) and has issued only 23 walks. The veteran southpaw has won both his starts against the Blue Jays this season, allowing only two earned runs over 15 1/3 innings, and is 15-2 lifetime in 19 matchups with Toronto. Mark Buehrle will get the call for Toronto. After a hot start to the season, hes come back down to earth in recent weeks and now sits with an 11-8 record and a 3.27 ERA. Buehrle has given up four earned runs or more in three of his last four starts, including on Aug. 5 in a loss to Baltimore when he lasted just four innings, allowing 10 hits, three walks and four runs. The 35-year-old lefty has a 3.60 ERA in 70 innings at Rogers Centre this season. In 35 career games (34 starts) against the Tigers, Buehrle is 18-10. .Mihajlovic was sent off minutes from the end of Thursdays 2-0 win over Brescia and has been punished for using a disrespectful expression toward the fourth official and throwing the contents of a bottle of water at him, thus assuming an intimidating attitude. . This week they discuss the Philadelphia 76ers, Gregg Popovich, Royal and Ancient Golf Club and Bill Belichick.
http://www.custommlbcardinalsjersey.com ... tml.Impact president Joey Saputo confirmed Thursday that he is part of a group of investors whose offer to buy the 105-year-old Italian club was accepted by the teams board of directors. . -- Arizona coach Sean Miller rose from his seat every time Roberto Nelson touched the ball and yelled "Shooter!" He could have been talking about his own team, too. . Not sure yet. #livetweetingthegreatuntangle — Strombone (@strombone1) April 17, 2014 Stage three, coping: I feel like I could use a cigarette or something. JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- Pete Carroll said it was the suspension of linebacker Bruce Irvin last spring that finally got the attention of the rest of the Seattle Seahawks that they needed to be taking their commitment to the team more seriously. Seattles past problems with drug suspensions -- both performance-enhancing and substance abuse -- were brought up again on Wednesday. Carroll was expansive, going back to Irvinns PED suspension last May as a turning point for the team.dddddddddddd. Carroll says the motto "Seahawks 24/7" that became a team slogan this season was born out of Irvins suspension. Carroll says his young team finally realized the importance of being responsible not just on the field but off as well. Seattle has seen seven players suspended for substance or PED violations since 2011. ' ' ' have to make up a four game deficit on Detroit for the second Wild Card spot. Theyre also 3.5 games back of Seattle, are tied with the Yankees and are sitting just a half-game ahead of Cleveland. It will take a 23-12 stretch run, just to finish at 88 wins and there is no guarantee even that will be enough, But I suppose the key point is, they are still alive with just 38 days remaining in the season and are still playing "meaningful" ball. I decided to look back at six of Jays most significant seasons to see just how they did from August 15 up until the regular seasons final day. Lets start with 1984, the year the Blue Jays had the best team of their young history. Detroit started out that season 35-5 and looked unbeatable. The Jays, to their credit stayed relatively close for most of the season. In mid-August, they were (68-51), But from that point on they went (21-22) and didnt win two in a row after September 12 to finish at (89-73). In 1985 the Blue Jays won their first division title, eliminating the Yankees and clinching the top spot with a victory over Billy Martin and company on the final Saturday of the regular season at Exhibition Stadium. On August 16th of that season, the Jays were (72-43), while this years Jays were 63-60 on the same date. The Jays went 27-19 down the stretch, though they did drop five of their last six to give the Yanks one last fleeting chance. Bobby Cox and the troops finish with a franchise record 99 victories. 1987 was the year of the heartbreak. The Blue Jays lead the AL East over Detroit with just seven games to play. Rocked by injuries to Tony Fernandez and Ernie Whitt, they dropped all seven including the final three at Tigers Stadium and finished second to Detroit. That year they were 69-48 in mid-August and went (27-18) the rest of the way. In 1989, the Blue Jays won their second division title, and ultimately lost the ALCS in five games to Oakland. Still, the season featured a great stretch run. They were just (60-59) on August 15, two games worse off than they are this season. Cito Gastons crew went 29-14 the rest of the way to take the East with an 89-73 mark. In 1991 they laid claim to their third division title, before losing to Minnesota in five in the ALCS, dropping the last three at home. They did play well over the last six weeks, going 28-18 to finish at 91-71. In 1992 it all came together as they won their first World Series title beating Atlanta in six games. They were 20 games over .500 on August 15 at 68-48 and finished with another 28-18 run to wind up at 96-66, the second best record in club history. In 1993 the Blue Jays made it a repeat by beating Philadelphia in six, winning the series at home on Joe Carters "Touch em all, Joe" walk off homer against Mitch Williams. The Jays went 27-16 down the stretch that season to finish at 95-67. The bottom line is this: If the Blue Jays need to finish at 23-12 at the very least, they have only done that twice before in franchise history in the years they made the post-season. In 1989 when they were won 15 more games than they lost and 1993, when they won 11 more than they lost. Those were decidedly stronger teams and won division titles and the 93 World Series. If the Blue Jays make the playoffs now even as a Wild Card, it would be an epic achievement considering the odds. Cuban Option A number of teams had been monitoring the workouts of Cuban defector Rusney Castillo with the Red Sox agreeing to terms with him on Friday on a reported seven-year, $72.5 million deal. Castillo has a bit of pop in his bat and can play either 2B or CF. It puzzles me why the Blue Jays havent been in on this 27-year-old. They have needs in both those areas, and they wouldnt have to give up anything but money to get him. On The Farm Big night for the kids Thursday night at Buffalo. Lefty Daniel Norris ran his record to 3-0 with the Herd and dropped his ERA to 1.08. He struck out nine over five innings in Buffalos 5-1 victory over Scranton Wilkes-Barre. Norris has 32 strikeouts in 16-plus innings with the Bisons. Anthony Gose batting second and playing right field tied a Buffalo modern record by stealing four bases in the game and 21-year-old Dalton Pompey made his Triple-A debut in front of a crowd of 11,134 batting leadoff and playing centre field. The 21 year old Mississauga, ON-native went 1-for-4, with his first Triple-A hit coming in the fifth inning on a single. At the very least, all three figure to be September call-ups. . The Raptors had an early deadline Sunday, a dreaded afternoon game, and they left the bulk of their work until the last minute, as theyve done so many times before. . The Incheon-based tea, of the Korea Baseball Organization said the deal for the 35-year-old Scott included a $50,000 signing bonus. Scott reached the major leagues with Houston in 2005 and hit 23 homers or more for Baltimore each year from 2008-10.
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