Blue Jays place lefty Liriano on 10-day DL with shoulder inflammation

“If he’s laboring a little bit, we might hold that down a little bit – 70, 75 maybe. Tremendous job. They’ve got a good lineup over there and he shut them down”.

Liriano allowed a season-worst seven runs in two-plus innings in his start Wednesday night against the Cleveland Indians, a game the Blue Jays won 8-7. He has been hot over the past 10 games, and when Cano hits the Mariners’ offense is usually productive. He lasted all of one out in his first start of the year, allowing five earned runs and four walks against the Tampa Bay Rays on April 7. “I’ll enjoy it, but it feels even better to contribute (to a win)”, Bautista said. “I was disappointed with it previous year”.

“I try to make sure my arm speed is up on that pitch”, Biagini said.

Bautista beat up on a third-inning offering from Mariners pitcher Christian Bergman, who was making his first career start.

But in seven starts this season, Liriano has been far from consistent, as he now owns a 6.35 ERA while allowing 7.31 walks per nine innings.

“One thing Russ is so good with the low ball, Liriano will shank one every now and then, but he lives down, bounces a lot of balls, gets a lot of strikeouts in the dirt, Martin frames those borderline calls, so it will be interesting to watch”. “We’ve got to get it back going offensively again”.

Biagini, working on a limit of 70-75 pitches, was pulled after giving up a leadoff single in the sixth.

Aaron Loup replaced Biagini for one batter, inducing a grounder to third from Ben Gamel that forced Segura at second. Gibbons said he noticed Biagini’s secondary pitches creeping up in the zone later in the game, a sure sign of fatigue. On Friday, the Jays made it two in a row with a 4-0 shutout. Chisenhall followed with a double and a second run scored when Yandy Diaz grounded into a fielder’s choice, with Chisenhall thrown out at third base.

Guillermo Heredia and Taylor Motter started the seventh with singles against Barnes, who struck out Carlos Ruiz and Jarrod Dyson. Darwin Barney replaced Chris Coghlan at third base in the eighth inning.

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Smoak halved the deficit with an RBI single off Chase De Jong in the bottom half.

In the second inning with runners on first and second, Darwin Barney, who had been one of those players laying down bunts off a pitching machine earlier in the day, carried that practice session into the game with a ideal sacrifice moving the runners to second and third with one out. They scored 21 runs on 32 hits in sweeping two games from the Phillies, moving to.500 for the first time this season.

Gibbons said Goins will see some time at third base when Tulowitzki returns to his duties at shortstop.

Biagini’s fastball peaked at 95 miles per hour in the first inning but was down to 91 in the fifth, an unsurprising dip given that he keeps pushing his pitch count higher. Fellow star Robinson Cano had a quadriceps injury, but was able to homer in both games and was 4-for-5 on Wednesday. Felix Hernandez (right shoulder inflammation), almost-Jay James Paxton (left forearm strain) and Drew Smyly (left flexor strain) are the other starters on the DL.

Bolsinger walked Edwin Encarnacion and Jose Ramirez to start the second. Carrera started in right field with Jose Bautista serving as the designated hitter for the injured Kendrys Morales.

The Indians lost center fielder Abraham Almonte in the second.