海角社区官网Blue Jays’ Alejandro Kirk (second left) is congratulated by teammates after hitting a walkoff RBI sacrifice fly to defeat the Baltimore Orioles on Saturday.
海角社区官网Blue Jays’ Alejandro Kirk (second left) is congratulated by teammates after hitting a walkoff RBI sacrifice fly to defeat the Baltimore Orioles on Saturday.
The 海角社区官网Blue Jays’聽lead in the American League pennant race continued to grow Saturday as they won in walk-off fashion for the second time in less than a week, this time scoring three runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to beat the Baltimore Orioles 5-4.
A lot of weirdness had to align for the Jays to construct their ninth walk-off victory of the season on Saturday against the Orioles at the Rogers
海角社区官网has shown a season-long knack for erasing deficits with their MLB-best 45th come-from-behind win, sending a sellout crowd of 42,461聽fans at the Rogers Centre home happy.
The New York Yankees maintained pace in the AL East by beating the Red Sox 5-3 in Boston. The Detroit Tigers, with the second-best record in the league, fell for the second straight game to the Miami Marlins, losing 6-4 in extra innings.
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Hinch said Skubal returned to Detroit after the test, with the left-hander expected to have his next post-start throwing day Monday.
The comments were made in reaction to fans booing a pick-off attempt in the eighth inning of
AL standings snapshot
海角社区官网(86-62) has a 2.5-game lead over Detroit (84-65) in the standings for the best record in the league, and home-field advantage through the AL playoffs. The top two teams in the league would also skip the wild-card round and head straight to the division series.聽
The Yankees (83-65) are three games back of the Jays and Boston (81-68) fell to 5.5 games back.
Because the Jays hold the tiebreaker over the other three teams, 海角社区官网in reality has a 3.5 game lead over Detroit, a four-game lead over New York and 6.5 games over Boston.聽
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