Minneapolis – Cavan Biggio hit a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning and Whit Merrifield scored on a come-from-behind call to lead the Blue Jays to a 3-2 win over the Minnesota Twins on Sunday with a four-man win. split. - Game series.
Merrifield was sentenced to at bat, but the sentence was rescinded after Twins catcher Gary Sanchez was deemed to have interfered with Merrifield.
"He's one of the worst moments I've seen with an umpire in any baseball game I've ever been in. I think it's a pathetic turn of events." Told. Rocco Baldelli, who was sent off for claiming the call, was sent off for the eighth time in his career and his third this season.
Replays His officials ruled that he did not establish a clear lane for Merrifield, whose right foot collided with Sanchez's left foot as Sanchez slid home to his plate. An out would have ended the inning.
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"I felt like the play was going on at the plate," he said Merrifield. "I put my head down for the first few steps and then looked up trying to find a way to get into home plate. I saw Gary straddling home plate and I tried to slide into him as straight as I could. Tried to run into him.I know what the rules are, it was a matter of whether they called it out.
Sanchez claimed he had gone out of his way.
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"He slid towards me. I'm just tagging him," Sanchez said. "I got the ball first. I think the line was open for him to slide sideways. He didn't. It was a clean play." His wild card put him two games behind Tampa Bay. After Cleveland won, Minnesota's lead in the AL Central he narrowed to one game.
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Jays Halting the Twins' comeback, Jose Miranda had at least one RBI in four straight games in Minnesota's first run, an eighth inning single. Luis Ares tied the game in the ninth with an RBI single.
Blue Jays starter Kevin Gaussman pitched his six scoreless innings, allowing six hits and five strikeouts. He's now pitched scoreless 14 innings in his last two starts.
"He was lights out," said Toronto manager John Schneider.
After missing a save chance in the ninth, Jordan Romano (4-3) closed out the Twins with his 1-2-3 innings in the 10th.
Minnesota starter Chris Archer said he pitched five innings and allowed four hits while allowing him two runs and four strikeouts. It was the fourth time this season that Archer has started five consecutive innings.
2 and his 3-inning streak helped Toronto score early. Teoscar Hernandez singled to start the second, and Bo Bichette scored on a double. Biggio doubled the third inning and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. grounded him on an RBI single.
Caleb Thielbar (2-1) threw his 10th on the Twins and gave up his fly to Biggio his sack.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. extended his 4-for-1 career-high hitting streak to his 18th game. This is the longest hitting streak in Major League Baseball.
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Blue Jays: LHP Tim Mayza Suffers 15 Days With Dislocated Right Shoulder Meza was ruled out of Saturday's game with an injury after landing awkwardly on his shoulder while trying to make the tag on a play at home plate. RHP Trent Thornton has been recalled from Triple A to replace Mayza.
Twins: RHP Emilio Pagán suffers daily from what the team calls Right Rat Spasms. Pagan left Sunday's game in the sixth inning with an injury ... Minnesota "hopes" for RHP Kenta Maeda's return in September, Baldelli said. Maeda said he had Tommy his John surgery in September 2021.
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Blue Jays: LHP Yusei Kikuchi (4-5, 4.86 ERA) takes to the mound in his 3-game opener of his series Monday in Baltimore against the Orioles. Kikuchi started in the recent game against the Tampa Bay Rays, allowing two runs in four innings.
Twins: Minnesota has a day off on Monday before starting his two-game interleague series against the Dodgers in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
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