Toronto took advantage of a trio of walks by Valdez to take the lead with a three-run fifth. Alex Bregman led off with his ninth home run, and a second run scored when Jake Meyers grounded into a bases-loaded double play. Valdez (6-5) allowed three runs and four hits in five innings. Toronto’s victory denied Astros left-hander Framber Valdez a fourth consecutive winning start. Julks went 1 for 2 with a walk and a strikeout. We’ve just got to regroup and try to figure out how we’re going to win some ballgames and get through this.” “We’ll evaluate him tomorrow,” Baker said. “Hopefully everything gets together so we can get on a roll.”Īlvarez said he first felt sore when hitting in the cage before the game, and felt pain again when he swung and missed at the first two pitches in his lone at bat. “We’ve been hitting the ball better,” Kirk said through a translator. Toronto is 7-1 in June after going 11-17 in May. The Blue Jays have won eight of 10 and 10 of 13. Toronto won its major league-leading 12th game when scoring three runs or fewer.
“You look at Kev, Chris and José tonight, it puts you in a good spot.” “It starts and ends with starting pitching,” manager John Schneider said. Yimi Garcia worked the seventh, Erik Swanson pitched the eighth and Jordan Romano finished for his 17th save in 20 chances.Īfter Toronto’s Alek Manoah was chased before completing the first inning Monday, the Blue Jays recovered with dominant starts from Kevin Gausman and Chris Bassitt before Berríos wrapped up the finale. Alvarez grounded out to first base in the first and was replaced at DH by Corey Julks when his turn came up again in the third.īerríos (6-4) allowed two runs and four hits, walked two and struck out one. Houston slugger Yordan Alvarez left after one at-bat because of a sore right oblique. “Last night was tough but this is tough, too,” Astros manager Dusty Baker said.
The Astros also lost three straight from April 2-4 and again from May 6-8. Houston lost its third straight, matching its longest slump of the season.
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reached base twice as the Blue Jays took three of four from the Astros and won the season series 4-3. TORONTO - José Berríos became the latest Blue Jays pitcher to turn in a strong start against the Houston Astros.īrandon Belt had a tiebreaking RBI single, Berríos pitched six innings to win his third straight decision and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Houston Astros 3-2 on Thursday night.Īlejandro Kirk added an RBI double and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Berríos earns victory as Blue Jays beat Astros 3-2
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