Angels sweep Blue Jays, but not before the Jays score a run

Three issues you could know concerning the Blue Jays’ 8-3 loss to the Angels at Rogers Centre on Sunday:

They scored

The Blue Jays averted being shut out a 3rd straight recreation when Matt Chapman doubled excessive off the wall in centre area within the fourth inning, scoring Bo Bichette, who had walked. They have been already down three runs by that point, due to residence runs by Luis Rengifo and Kurt Suzuki off Ross Stripling, who allowed three runs in an outing for under the fourth time this season. It was the Jays’ first run in 21-plus innings, and the primary one scored by a runner who hadn’t been positioned on base (as per the extra-innings rule) in 25 innings.

Unhealthy wheel

Teoscar Hernández’s aching left foot value the Jays two runs when the sport was nonetheless shut. After hammering a foul ball off his instep Friday evening — and for the second time in per week — he got here out of that recreation within the third inning and didn’t play Saturday. The 29-year-old was again within the lineup Sunday however couldn’t rating from first on Chapman’s fourth-inning double and couldn’t beat second baseman David Fletcher to the bag on a Whit Merrifield grounder within the sixth, ending the inning and stopping Bichette from scoring from third.

Interim supervisor John Schneider mentioned after the sport that there’s a effective steadiness between permitting Hernández to play damage and resting him and that he might be re-evaluated Monday.

Okay-kuchi

Yusei Kikuchi had walked the primary batter he had confronted — on 4 pitches — in every of his three appearances since being moved to the bullpen, so it was a shock when he was introduced in with the bases loaded and two out within the high of the ninth. He struck out rookie Ryan Aguilar to flee the jam.

Mike Wilner is a Toronto-based baseball columnist for the Star and host of the baseball podcast “Deep Left Subject.” Comply with him on Twitter: @wilnerness

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