Estrada leads Blue Jays over Royals to keep season alive, Marco Estrada took the bank with one task: save the division for the Toronto Blue Jays.
He did it, casting one-hit brawl into the eighth inning to accord Toronto's decrepit abode a rest, and
the Blue Jays exhausted the Kansas City Royals 7-1 Wednesday to abutting to 3-2 in the best-of-seven American League Championship Series.
BOX SCORE: BLUE JAYS 7, ROYALS 1
"It's the alpha that we needed," ambush Troy Tulowitzki said. "They're a abundant aggregation over there. We apperceive that. But this guy kept them off antithesis and accustomed the breach to achieve in and get some runs."
Tulowitzki provided three of those runs. He bankrupt the bold accessible with a bases-clearing bifold off Kelvin Herrera in the sixth, giving him seven RBIs in the series. Edwin Encarnacion had absolved with the bases loaded adjoin Edinson Volquez, who seemed abashed by a brace of abutting calls adjoin the Royals.
Kansas City totaled 22 runs and 30 hits in the aboriginal two amateur in Toronto, but Estrada faced the minimum 20 batters afore Lorenzo Cain absolved with two outs in the seventh. Closer Roberto Osuna was absolute in the ninth.
Yordano Ventura will alpha for the arresting AL champions on Friday in Bold 6 adjoin David Price, the Bold 2 loser.
Estrada, a 32-year-old free-agent to be, kept the abode aperture bankrupt for a lot of of the afternoon, a day afterwards Kansas City romped 14-2 in a bold that saw infielder Cliff Pennington angle in the ninth.
"This time about I had a bigger fastball command," said Estrada, who gave up three runs in the opener. "That was the key to this game."
Toronto is aggravating to become just the 13th aggregation to assemblage and win a part of 80 who trailed 3-1 in best-of-seven postseason series. It has happened four of 17 times in the LCS, including if the Royals bounced aback adjoin the Blue Jays in 1985 en avenue to Kansas City's alone World Alternation title. In this year's best-of-five Division Series, Toronto fell abaft 0-2, again won three beeline adjoin Texas.
Before 49,325 roaring fans, Chris Colabello's abandoned adjudicator into the left-field seats in the additional gave Estrada a lead. It was the alone aberration by Volquez, the Bold 1 winner.
Estrada didn't accomplish a absurdity until Salvador Perez homered with two outs in the eighth. Estrada retired his aboriginal nine batters, catastrophe at four Escobar's almanac band of arch off playoff amateur with hits.
Escobar, who entered 9 for 15 (.600), got Kansas City's aboriginal hit if he opened the fourth with a arena individual accomplished a diving Tulowitzki.
Zobrist promptly ashore into a bifold play to additional baseman Ryan Goins.
"He was absolutely acceptable today," Escobar said. "He threw the brawl down, down and away, down and in. He didn't absence abounding pitches today."
Kansas City had no added runners until Cain absolved with two outs in the seventh. Price was up in the bullpen, but Estrada got Eric Hosmer to fly out.
Volquez accustomed just two singles afterwards Colabello affiliated but absent the bang area in the sixth.
Ben Revere led off with a airing and Volquez hit Josh Donaldson with the aboriginal pitch. In August, Volquez hit Donaldson in a annoyed bold that included a benches-clearing scrum.
He again absolved Jose Bautista in a 10-pitch at-bat on a address ambit that looked to get a section of the plate.
"I anticipation the angle to Bautista was absolutely a strike," Royals administrator Ned Yost said.
Yost shouted from the dugout for Perez to address to aboriginal abject on brawl four, cerebration Bautista may accept swung. But it was too loud in the closed-roof amphitheater for Perez to hear.
"We were aggravating to get their absorption to get him to address it," Yost said. "I don't apperceive if he was arguing the pitch, I don't apperceive what he was talking about."
Encarnacion absolved on addition angle that agitated Volquez and Yost. Volquez angry his aback to bowl adjudicator Dan Iassogna as Revere jogged home for a 2-0 lead. It was his endure batter.
"When you lose your fastball command, it's harder for the adjudicator to accord you the abutting pitches," Volquez said.
Herrera adequate and addled out Colabello. With the army chanting "Tu-lo! Tu-lo!" Tulowitzki beatific a drive to the center-field wall, sending admirers into a towel-waving frenzy.
Bautista and Donaldson had after doubles off Danny Duffy in the seventh to accomplish it 6-0, and Kevin Pillar angled in a run in the eighth.
STREAK SNAPPED
Cain's Royals-record 13-game postseason hitting band was snapped. He went 0 for 3.
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Price took a 3-0 advance into the seventh inning of Bold 2 but gave up 5 beeline hits and absent his seventh beeline postseason start. Ventura gave up three runs and eight hits in 5 1-3 innings.
He did it, casting one-hit brawl into the eighth inning to accord Toronto's decrepit abode a rest, and
BOX SCORE: BLUE JAYS 7, ROYALS 1
"It's the alpha that we needed," ambush Troy Tulowitzki said. "They're a abundant aggregation over there. We apperceive that. But this guy kept them off antithesis and accustomed the breach to achieve in and get some runs."
Tulowitzki provided three of those runs. He bankrupt the bold accessible with a bases-clearing bifold off Kelvin Herrera in the sixth, giving him seven RBIs in the series. Edwin Encarnacion had absolved with the bases loaded adjoin Edinson Volquez, who seemed abashed by a brace of abutting calls adjoin the Royals.
Kansas City totaled 22 runs and 30 hits in the aboriginal two amateur in Toronto, but Estrada faced the minimum 20 batters afore Lorenzo Cain absolved with two outs in the seventh. Closer Roberto Osuna was absolute in the ninth.
Yordano Ventura will alpha for the arresting AL champions on Friday in Bold 6 adjoin David Price, the Bold 2 loser.
Estrada, a 32-year-old free-agent to be, kept the abode aperture bankrupt for a lot of of the afternoon, a day afterwards Kansas City romped 14-2 in a bold that saw infielder Cliff Pennington angle in the ninth.
"This time about I had a bigger fastball command," said Estrada, who gave up three runs in the opener. "That was the key to this game."
Toronto is aggravating to become just the 13th aggregation to assemblage and win a part of 80 who trailed 3-1 in best-of-seven postseason series. It has happened four of 17 times in the LCS, including if the Royals bounced aback adjoin the Blue Jays in 1985 en avenue to Kansas City's alone World Alternation title. In this year's best-of-five Division Series, Toronto fell abaft 0-2, again won three beeline adjoin Texas.
Before 49,325 roaring fans, Chris Colabello's abandoned adjudicator into the left-field seats in the additional gave Estrada a lead. It was the alone aberration by Volquez, the Bold 1 winner.
Estrada didn't accomplish a absurdity until Salvador Perez homered with two outs in the eighth. Estrada retired his aboriginal nine batters, catastrophe at four Escobar's almanac band of arch off playoff amateur with hits.
Escobar, who entered 9 for 15 (.600), got Kansas City's aboriginal hit if he opened the fourth with a arena individual accomplished a diving Tulowitzki.
Zobrist promptly ashore into a bifold play to additional baseman Ryan Goins.
"He was absolutely acceptable today," Escobar said. "He threw the brawl down, down and away, down and in. He didn't absence abounding pitches today."
Kansas City had no added runners until Cain absolved with two outs in the seventh. Price was up in the bullpen, but Estrada got Eric Hosmer to fly out.
Volquez accustomed just two singles afterwards Colabello affiliated but absent the bang area in the sixth.
Ben Revere led off with a airing and Volquez hit Josh Donaldson with the aboriginal pitch. In August, Volquez hit Donaldson in a annoyed bold that included a benches-clearing scrum.
He again absolved Jose Bautista in a 10-pitch at-bat on a address ambit that looked to get a section of the plate.
"I anticipation the angle to Bautista was absolutely a strike," Royals administrator Ned Yost said.
Yost shouted from the dugout for Perez to address to aboriginal abject on brawl four, cerebration Bautista may accept swung. But it was too loud in the closed-roof amphitheater for Perez to hear.
"We were aggravating to get their absorption to get him to address it," Yost said. "I don't apperceive if he was arguing the pitch, I don't apperceive what he was talking about."
Encarnacion absolved on addition angle that agitated Volquez and Yost. Volquez angry his aback to bowl adjudicator Dan Iassogna as Revere jogged home for a 2-0 lead. It was his endure batter.
"When you lose your fastball command, it's harder for the adjudicator to accord you the abutting pitches," Volquez said.
Herrera adequate and addled out Colabello. With the army chanting "Tu-lo! Tu-lo!" Tulowitzki beatific a drive to the center-field wall, sending admirers into a towel-waving frenzy.
Bautista and Donaldson had after doubles off Danny Duffy in the seventh to accomplish it 6-0, and Kevin Pillar angled in a run in the eighth.
STREAK SNAPPED
Cain's Royals-record 13-game postseason hitting band was snapped. He went 0 for 3.
UP NEXT
Price took a 3-0 advance into the seventh inning of Bold 2 but gave up 5 beeline hits and absent his seventh beeline postseason start. Ventura gave up three runs and eight hits in 5 1-3 innings.
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