Red Sox place E-Rod on paternity leave

Francisco Liriano combined with three relievers on a six-hit shutout as the Toronto Blue Jays blanked the Boston Red Sox 3-0 on Wednesday night at Rogers Centre.

Boston is also 4-2 in their last six games versus a right-handed starter and 2-9 in their last 11 road games. This will be the first meeting between the American League East rivals this season. He will try playing catch in the next few days.

Reading the tea leaves, however, it’s a good bet that Casey Lawrence, who was lifted after working two solid innings Wednesday night in Buffalo, will take up one of the spots vacated by J.A. Happ. He was left on the bench yesterday and replaced by Marco Hernandez after having a very sloppy start to the season, even though the Venezuelan has managed to blast three home runs so far.

Blue Jays manager John Gibbons thinks his team has what it takes to be in the playoff mix at the end of the season.

Donaldson, who had just finished a session in the Jays weight room said he was “feeling better”.

“We need to turn it around quickly that’s for sure”. Left fielder Ezequiel Carrera drove in Barney from second after he advanced to second on a single by Kevin Pillar. “That doesn’t win you anything, but it’ll happen”.

“It is everything I hoped for”. I think you get over that I mean I wasn’t almost as bad and I don’t want anything to linger that’s what it’s wanted my next start out there what do you think is next for Iraq. They’ve got to, they always have.

The teams will play the rubber game in the three-game set Thursday afternoon.

The Blue Jays will depend on Marcus Stroman (1-1, 1.76 ERA) Tuesday in the opener. A 17-game victor with Chicago in 2016, Sale has fanned 29 while yielding only three runs and 11 hits over 21 2/3 innings. He did not factor in the decision in his Red Sox debut April 5 against Pittsburgh in Boston, when the Red Sox won 3-0 in 12 innings.

In one of the better performances of his career, Gonzalez pitched 8⅓ shut-down innings to lead a 4-1 Sox victory that ended the Yankees’ eight-game winning streak.

Betts said Liriano was able to keep the Red Sox off balance. In a corresponding roster move, the club optioned fellow left-hander Brian Johnson to Triple-A Pawtucket.

It has been quite a trip for Johnson. That’s overwhelming for anyone, let alone someone making his second career Major League Baseball start. In his first three starts he put up scores of 77, 70, and 76 respectively – today he hit 91. “We’ve Craig Kimbrel who’s throwing the baseball extremely well”, Farrell said. “Percentage of strikes has been much improved”. “Sharpness with the secondary stuff is there”. “It took two years but it was a long path in between that but I’m excited to be here”.

The former Detroit Tiger has been touched up by the Blue Jays over his career to the tune of a (7-7, 5.03 ERA, 1.251 WHIP, 5.9 K/9) record. Mazzulla dropped 39 points in the state championship game that season, and was named the Rhode Island Gatorade Player of the Year as a junior and senior.

After Johnson made his first appearance with the Red Sox in 2015, it seemed like he would be back soon – not nearly two years later. Homers by Martin, Smoak and Carrera marked just the second multi-home run game of the season for the Jays.

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– Boston’s best chance against Estrada came in the sixth, but Mitch Moreland struck out with Mookie Betts on third base to end the frame.