Back home, Blue Jays break out to beat Royals 11-8 in Game 3

Back home, Blue Jays break out to beat Royals 11-8 in Game 3, Troy Tulowitzki, Josh Donaldson and the slugging Toronto Blue Jays were acquisitive to acknowledgment to their adjudicator arch afterwards bottomward the aboriginal two amateur of the AL Championship Alternation in Kansas City.

They showed anybody why.

The Blue Jays came out accepted and their disorderly admirers were singing from the start, with Tulowitzki and Donaldson abutting in a six-run third inning as Toronto roughed up Johnny Cueto and the Royals for an 11-8 achievement that cut Kansas City's alternation advance to 2-1

BOX SCORE: BLUE JAYS 11, ROYALS 8

"That's absolutely what we're all about," administrator John Gibbons said. "We badly bare that breakout."

Veteran knuckleballer R.A. Dickey will try to get the Blue Jays even in the best-of-seven alternation Tuesday afternoon. He faces Kansas City's 6-foot-10 right-hander Chris Young in Bold 4.

Ryan Goins aswell homered and had a two-run individual a bold afterwards his misplayed pop fly set off Kansas City's acceptable assemblage Sunday.

The airy Royals approved to appear aback this time, too, scoring four runs in the ninth afore Roberto Osuna bankrupt it out.

Even with a big lead, Tulowitzki absent his cool. He was accustomed a attenuate playoff casting for arguing assurance and strikes afore the top of the eighth.

Tulowitzki, who addled out searching in the seventh, was aseptic by teammates as he argued with bowl adjudicator John Hirschbeck if the Blue Jays took the acreage for the eighth. Gibbons and bank drillmaster DeMarlo Hale aswell came out to breach it up.

Despite getting outhit 15-11 by the annoying Royals, Toronto pounced on Kansas City's casting in the aboriginal ALCS bold in Toronto back 1993 for their a lot of runs anytime at home in the postseason -- afterwards scoring just three in two amateur in Kansas City.

Kansas City denticulate four times off amateur Marcus Stroman and again added four in the ninth, capped by Kendrys Morales' two-run adjudicator off Osuna.

Seemingly not absent by the advancing federal elections that were getting captivated in Canada on Monday, 49,751 admirers serenaded Cueto with a banausic "Cueto-Cueto!" carol from the game's aboriginal angle and never quieted down.

The Royals took a quick advance if Alcides Escobar led off the bold with a biconcave liner that went beneath appropriate fielder Jose Bautista's cuff for a amateur off Stroman. Ben Zobrist collection in Escobar with a grounder, but that was the alone advantage Kanas City would authority in accepting its nine-game ALCS acceptable band snapped. The cord anachronous to the 1985 alternation adjoin Toronto.

Blue Jays centermost fielder Kevin Pillar quashed that assemblage with a fantastic, over-the-shoulder bolt that beatific him abolition into the wall.

After an simple first, Cueto appeared abashed by the crowd. Eleven of his actual 13 batters accomplished and at one point in the third inning he threw his easily up in annoyance afterwards gesturing for a new aeon of signs from catcher Salvador Perez.

Goins singled in two runs in the additional afterwards Tulowitzki singled with one out and Russell Martin was hit by a angle that agape off his larboard bend guard. Goins pulled into additional on the bandy home and shouted and pumped his arms.

David Price, the accident bullpen in Bold 2, led the auspicious from the top footfall of the dugout.

When Goins denticulate on Donaldson's hit, he was greeted aboriginal by the agog Stroman.

"He's been accustomed that amount about a little bit," Gibbons said of Goins. "But he stepped up, absolutely got us on the lath with that abundant at-bat, acrimonious up those two runs, abject hit to larboard and then, of course, the home run."

Nursing a abscessed accept that alone him in September, Tulowitzki entered in a 4-for-29 postseason slump. But he affiliated for the Blue Jays' aboriginal ALCS adjudicator afterwards Edwin Encarnacion singled and Chris Colabello absolved to alpha the third.

"Battling with the accept at times, but aggravating to gut it out," Tulowitzki said.

Cueto was advancing off a ascendant eight-inning achievement in Bold 5 of the ALDS, backward his endure 19 batters. But afterwards giving up Pillar's RBI bifold in the third, he was done.

The dreadlocked Dominican gave up six hits and eight runs in two-plus innings. He absolved four and hit a concoction with a pitch. As admirers sang Cueto off the field, he smiled and tossed his gum abreast the Royals dugout.

Donaldson affiliated two batters afterwards Kris Medlen entered for a 9-2 lead, and Goins homered off Medlen in the fifth as Toronto akin its postseason best with three homers in a game. The Blue Jays aswell hit three adjoin Texas in Bold 4 of the ALDS.

Stroman gave up two runs in the fifth on a agrarian angle and an RBI individual in an accidental achievement for the 24-year-old who alternate from a broken knee bond in March to go 4-0 down the amplitude and get the win in Bold 5 of the ALDS. He accustomed four runs and 11 hits.

But abounding Blue Jays admirers were assured abundant with a 10-4 advance to sing "Happy Birthday" to Bautista if he came to bat in the sixth. Bautista collection in a run in the eighth.

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The bookish Young, a Princeton grad, and Dickey, who has talked about his admiration to be a teacher, were alert teammates, with Texas (2003-04) and the Mets (2011-12). Young hasn't started back Oct. 2, but pitched in abatement in Bold 1 of the Division Series. Dickey was aerial with two outs in the fifth adjoin Texas in the Division Alternation with Toronto arch by six runs.
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