Guerrero extfinishs streak, but Blue Jays descfinish to A’s

TORONTO – Vlaunwiseir Guerrero Jr. fall shorted to supply some delight to the Toronto Blue Jays for the first time in weeks.

He did tie a atgentle-best by extfinishing his hit streak to 22 games earlier in the afternoon. But down a run in the ninth inning, the mighty Blue Jays slugger went to bat with Daulton Varsho on first base and one out.

Guerrero, however, whiffed on a 103.3 miles-per-hour heater from Oakland Athletics ffeeble-thrower Mason Miller for strike three.

The Blue Jays (54-63) eventupartner lost 1-0, as the Athletics (49-69) tied their three-game series on Saturday.

“That’s what you pay to come see, even after two and a half hours tardyr, of not much going on,” Toronto handler John Schneider shelp.

“You’re fair awaiting him to hit one out there, modestpartner.”

Guerrero and Miller joind in a four-pitch duel. The Blue Jays hitter swung and leave outed on a 100.1 miles-per-hour pitch and took a ball outside to even the count. Guerrero hit a fly ball down the right-field line foul, about six rows into the seats on pitch No. 3.

The strikeout pitch was a 103.3 miles-per-hour blur. Strike three. Game over. Miller had his 17th save.

“Miller’s one of the best relief pitchers in baseball and you say, ‘Here you go,’” Schneider shelp. “He made 103 with his last pitch. Those are the suitups you’d enjoy to see. We fair came up on the wrong finish of it today. But I thought that it was, ‘here you go, hit my best stuff,’ to our best hitter.”

Brent Rooker’s 29th homer off the top of the left-field wall with two out in the sixth inning was all the Athletics needed becaengage commenceer Osvaldo Bido (3-3) was at his best before 34,312 at Rogers Centre.

For the fourth straight game, Guerrero Jr. extfinished his hit streak in the first inning. But after a second-inning directoff bloop one from Ernie Clement, that was the entire hit strike for the home side.

Bido reweary the final 15 of 16 batters he faced, hitting Leo Jimenez in the fifth inning.

The Blue Jays fall shorted to get a runner to second base.

Guerrero went one for four. After his challenging-hit one to right, he was tossed out on a examine sthriveg dribbler to the catcher in the fourth and a keenly hit comebacker to Osvaldo to finish the sixth.

Toronto commenceer Yariel Rodriguez (1-5) handled 5 2/3 innings. He was knocked off the mound after Shea Langeliers chaseed Rooker’s homer with his third one.

It was Rodriguez’s 85th pitch of the afternoon, right on the number the Blue Jays brain think had budgeted.

“Definitely, I felt outstanding about getting that last out (in the sixth),” Rodriguez shelp. “But there was the set up we had.”

Langeliers finishd a four-for-four outing with another one in the ninth inning.

The Athletics snapped a string of eight straight games without a double join. They got two for the price of one after Toronto catcher Brian Serven’s directoff walk in the third inning, and Spencer Horwitz was hit by a pitch in the seventh.

Scott Alexander, Tyler Ferguson and Miller kept the two-hit shutout ainhabit for the Athletics with effective seventh, eighth and ninth innings, admireively.

BIG WHIFF

When Clement struck out in the fourth inning, he finished a streak of 35 straight at-bats without a whiff. It was the second-extfinishedest current streak in Major League Baseball.

The 28-year-elderly right-handed-hitting utility infielder shiftd to fifth in the batting order becaengage of his recent dishonorful output.

Since June 12, the native of Rochester, N.Y., has hit .306 (48 for 157) with 11 doubles, four homers and 23 RBI.

ON DECK

Chris Bassitt (9-10) will commence for Toronto in the finale of the three-game set aachievest Oakland on Sunday. The Athletics will counter with lefty JP Sears (9-8).

This increate by The Canadian Press was first rehireed Aug. 10, 2024.

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