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		<title>Recap: Royals 7, Blue Jays 1; Bloops, Bunts, and Blasts Beat Blue Jays</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2016 21:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Passador]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Blue Jays dropped the rubber game of a three game set to Kansas City on Sunday afternoon as the offense once again failed to deliver in a 7-1 defeat at the hands of the reigning champs. Marcus Stroman was bested by Yordano Ventura and the Jays failed to take advantage of their nine baserunners [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Blue Jays dropped the rubber game of a three game set to Kansas City on Sunday afternoon as the offense once again failed to deliver in a 7-1 defeat at the hands of the reigning champs. Marcus Stroman was bested by Yordano Ventura and the Jays failed to take advantage of their nine baserunners on the day in a disappointing end to the road trip.</p>
<p>Stroman struggled to deal with Royals Baseball<sup>(TM)</sup>, victimized by bloops and bunts and only exacerbated the problems with some mistakes of his own. In the second inning Stroman fielded a weak comebacker after issuing a leadoff walk to Kendrys Morales. Stroman fired high on what should&#8217;ve been a double play and allowed Alex Gordon to reach on a fielder&#8217;s choice. Two singles and an RBI bunt (plus a Stroman throwing error) later, Kansas City took a 2-0 lead. A leadoff home run in the fifth inning from Alcides Escobar accounted for the other run off Stroman on the day. His final line reads 5.0 IP, 7 H, 3 ER, 2 BB, 4 K on 95 pitches.</p>
<p>Scott Feldman worked a clean sixth but ran into trouble in the seventh. The Royals came back out and collected three straight hits (one bunt, of course) off of Scott Feldman to load the bases with no outs. After a strikeout of Lorenzo Cain, Brett Cecil came in to try and put out the fire. He struck out Eric Hosmer and then conceded a two out grand slam to Morales to put the game away.</p>
<p>The Blue Jays had runners on in five innings but only had one make it to third base. With just one hit since the fourth inning, the team wasted four walks from Ventura and failed to drive in any runs. The lone run of the day came in the seventh when Darwin Barney scored on a wild pitch. It was a deflating day for the Blue Jays who could muster only six hits in dropping the series finale.</p>
<h3>Top Play of the Game by WPA</h3>
<p>The top play of the day came in the second inning when backup catcher Drew Butera poked a soft liner into the outfield to cash in Alex Gordon. Gordon was the batter who reached thanks to Stroman&#8217;s bad throw on a double play attempt. That misfire cost Stroman in the end, as Butera&#8217;s RBI single notched a 0.128 WPA.</p>
<h3>Bottom Play of the Game by WPA</h3>
<p>The bottom play of the game also came in the second inning when Alcides Escobar grounded into a strange double play. With runners on second and third, Escobar grounded out sharply to Edwin Encarnacion at first. Butera held up at third but Raul Mondesi foolishly took off from second base. Encarnacion astutely ran Mondesi to third and forced Butera to head home where he was tagged out by Josh Thole after a brief rundown. The play was good for a -0.094 WPA.</p>
<h3>Devon Travis Still Swinging</h3>
<p>The sophomore second baseman pushed his hitting streak to four and has hit safely in nine of his last eleven games. Travis entered Toronto&#8217;s July 10th game against Detroit with a .262 batting average but has climbed all the way up to .293. Since that day he&#8217;s hit .355 with four home runs and 10 RBI. While the rest of the team is slumping, Travis has been excelling at the top of the lineup. He looks to have reclaimed the leadoff role and will hopefully continue to provide a steady on-base presence atop the order.</p>
<h3>Offensive Outage</h3>
<p>The Blue Jays are going through something of a late-summer swoon as of late, having scored just 17 runs on this seven game road trip. If not for the hot streak of Travis, the team might be looking at a very different week in the rearview mirror. The strikeouts piled up in Houston and it felt like the Jays couldn&#8217;t catch a break in Kansas City. Whatever the case, the team will try to leave those troubles behind and get back on track with a brief homestand.</p>
<h3>Up Next</h3>
<p>Despite dropping two of three to Kansas City, the Blue Jays will be satisfied with a 4-3 record on their road trip through Houston and KC. The team returns home tomorrow to kick off a three game set with the Tampa Bay Rays. R.A. Dickey (8-12, 4.49 ERA) will toe the rubber against right hander Jake Odorizzi (6-5, 3.70 ERA) with first pitch scheduled for 7:07 PM EST.</p>
<p><em>Lead Photo: Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports</em></p>
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		<title>Recap: White Sox 3, Blue Jays 2; Jays Fall Just Short in Series Opener</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2016 03:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Dika]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two of baseball’s promising young starters were on display in the series opener at US Cellular Field tonight in Chicago. Aaron Sanchez turned in a strong start once again, allowing 2 runs on 8 hits in six innings. Despite allowing 9 men to reach base, Sanchez was not hit hard and continued to induce ground [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Two of baseball’s promising young starters were on display in the series opener at US Cellular Field tonight in Chicago. Aaron Sanchez turned in a strong start once again, allowing 2 runs on 8 hits in six innings. Despite allowing 9 men to reach base, Sanchez was not hit hard and continued to induce ground balls (9 ground outs) at an elite level. Sanchez&#8217;s 23-year old counterpart, Carlos Rodon, struck out 8 Blue Jays and scattered 6 hits and 2 runs over 5.2 innings of work. A Josh Donaldson error in the bottom of the 7th inning led to a Todd Frazier RBI single that would be the difference in the game. Despite a 9th inning rally that saw the Blue Jays load the bases with one out, David Robertson was able to nail down the game for the White Sox, striking out Edwin Encarnacion and getting Michael Saunders to pop out.</p>
<h3>Top Play of the Game by WPA</h3>
<p>Todd Frazier’s 7<sup>th</sup> inning RBI single off Jesse Chavez was the difference in the game and the highest value play by WPA, increasing the White Sox chances of winning the game by 19.6 percentage points.</p>
<h3>Bottom Play of the Game by WPA</h3>
<p>The lowest play of the game by WPA occurred in the bottom of the 9<sup>th</sup> inning when David Robertson snuffed out the Blue Jays rally by getting Michael Saunders to pop out to shortstop Tim Anderson. The Jays had loaded the bases on a Darwin Barney walk, Ezekiel Carrera single and Josh Donaldson infield hit when Robertson was able to retire the meat of the Jays order – striking out Encarnacion before inducing the infield fly off the bat of Saunders. The play reduced Toronto’s chances of winning the game by 23.1 percentage points.</p>
<h3>Sanchez Hits A Milestone</h3>
<p>After throwing 6 innings tonight, Aaron Sanchez surpassed his 2015 regular season workload of 92.1 innings pitched. While we’ve continued to hear Blue Jays’ management stay on message that Sanchez will be moved to the bullpen at some point in the future (when is not clear), he’s making many people who follow the team dream on ways to keep him in the rotation. The longer we see Sanchez take the hill and pitch like one of the top starters in the American League (where he ranks 14<sup>th</sup> in starter ERA), the harder it is to swallow that Sanchez won’t be taking the ball in the first inning down the stretch and potentially into the playoffs. Six man rotation? Month long All-Star break? There’s got to be a way to keep Sanchy out there.</p>
<h3>Ryan Goins: Outfielder</h3>
<p>Tonight’s game saw infielder turned “super utility” player, Ryan Goins, playing left-field after pinch hitting for Junior Lake. While many assumed that Goins would be sent to the minor leagues when Devon Travis returned from injury, Goins has remained with the big club, and taking on defensive assignments in the outfield. With Michael Saunders playing at DH, Goins remained in the outfield for the rest of the game. Goins made a strong throw to third base after Tim Anderson tagged up on a fly ball in the 7<sup>th</sup> inning, but didn’t appear to set himself to throw before making the catch. Anderson would later come around to score. Goins is a good defender at both second base and shortstop but with so little experience in the outfield, the Jays will be relying on him to figure things out on the fly.</p>
<h3>Balks A Plenty</h3>
<p>Both the Blue Jays and the White Sox were called for balks tonight &#8211; Drew Storen for Toronto in the 8<sup>th</sup> inning and Carlos Rodon for the White Sox in the 6th. Despite being called for balks, both Storen and Rodon appeared to do nothing out of the ordinary and neither situation involved deceiving a base runner that was looking to steal a base. While the enforcement of the balk rule is often debated and rarely understood, neither factored into the scoring and Bob Davidson was not involved in any of the calls on the field.</p>
<h3>Up Next</h3>
<p>Toronto’s series with the White Sox continues tomorrow afternoon (2PM EST) when RA Dickey takes the mound opposite Miguel Gonzalez. Gonzalez is the least intimidating (stuff wise) White Sox starter the Jays will face this weekend and the righty struggled earlier this season at the Rogers Centre, where he surrender 5 runs and 11 hits in 5 innings of work against the Blue Jays.</p>
<p><em>Lead Photo: Matt Marton-USA TODAY Sports</em></p>
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