Mariners win 7th in row, top Blue Jays 2-1 on Santana homer
SEATTLE (AP) — Carlos Santana hit his first dwelling run since being acquired by Seattle, lining a two-run shot off Toronto starter Alek Manoah that lifted the Mariners to a 2-1 win over the Blue Jays on Saturday evening.
Seattle received its seventh straight and has taken 15 of its previous 18. The 15-3 stretch is the most effective 18-game stretch by the Mariners since 2003.
Santana’s homer got here within the seventh inning after Seattle had managed only one hit off Manoah by means of the primary six. J.P. Crawford led off the seventh with a single and Santana ambushed a fastball in the course of the plate for his fifth dwelling of the season and his greatest hit up to now with the Mariners.
Santana was acquired in late June from Kansas Metropolis for a pair of pitchers.
Robbie Ray confronted his former group for the primary time and threw six innings, permitting simply three hits and one run on George Springer’s sixteenth dwelling run of the season main off the sixth inning. Ray received the AL Cy Younger Award final season with the Blue Jays, however didn’t journey to Toronto when the groups met in Might resulting from border restrictions associated to the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Ray struck out six and pitched out of a serious jam within the fifth inning when Toronto loaded the bases with no outs and failed to attain. Over his previous six begins, Ray has a 0.91 ERA with 11 walks and 46 strikeouts.
Matt Brash (2-3) struck out a pair as a part of an ideal seventh inning, together with a 13-pitch strikeout of Lordes Gurriel Jr. that included 9 foul balls.
Pitching for the third straight day, Diego Castillo confronted bother within the ninth after one-out singles by Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Alejandro Kirk. Castillo bought groundouts from Teoscar Hernández and Matt Chapman for his fifth save.
Manoah (9-4) was the equal of Ray, pitching 7 1/3 innings however took the loss. Manoah didn’t enable successful till Ty France’s one-out double within the fourth and allowed three baserunners complete till the issues within the seventh.
Manoah struck out seven and walked 4.
SPRINGER DINGER
All of Toronto’s offense got here from the one swing by Springer. It was his twenty third profession dwelling run towards Seattle. He’s hit 13 of the 23 at T-Cellular Park.
ROSTER MOVES
Seattle made a flurry of strikes to bolster its bullpen, recalling Brash and Matt Festa from Triple-A Tacoma. RHP Ken Giles was positioned on the 15-day injured record with proper shoulder irritation and RHP Erik Swanson was positioned on the paternity record.
Seattle additionally optioned rookie beginning pitcher George Kirby to Tacoma. With an off day on Monday and the looming All-Star break, it’s a simple method for Seattle to handle Kirby’s innings. Proper-hander Jacob Barnes was chosen from Tacoma to take Kirby’s spot.
Catcher Luis Torrens (shoulder) was additionally activated from the 10-day IL and C Andrew Knapp was designated for task.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Blue Jays: Toronto supervisor Charlie Montoyo was not prepared to call a starter for Sunday’s collection finale however it received’t be RHP Kevin Gausman. Montoyo stated Gausman wouldn’t return to the rotation till Tuesday on the earliest. Gausman was hit on the ankle in his final begin and was scratched from his scheduled activate Thursday.
UP NEXT
Blue Jays: Toronto is predicted to make it a bullpen day and announce a starter on Sunday.
Mariners: RHP Logan Gilbert (10-3, 2.61) appears to hitch Houston’s Justin Verlander as the one 11-game winners within the American League. Gilbert allowed two runs in 5 1/3 innings in his final begin towards San Diego. Gilbert has pitched no less than 5 innings in each begin this season.
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