

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.
