Desperate Blue Jays hold off Texas Rangers

TORONTO With apologies to the late Al Davis, the Jays motto canada goose coats on sale has become win, canada goose outlet sale baby. their slip slide in the win department and the standings, the Jays are in danger of becoming irrelevant and out of it by the time the July 31 trade deadline comes and goes.

Needing another canada goose black friday sale strong outing from their starter and a modicum of offence, the Jays cheap Canada Goose received both Saturday in downing the Texas Rangers 4 1 to canadian goose jacket snap a three game losing streak.

Marcus Stroman turned in a powerful performance on the mound as he blanked the Rangers on four hits over seven innings to move to 5 3. Stroman didn walk a batter Canada Goose online and struck out five in his 107 pitch performance.

Offensively, the Jays managed 12 hits with four of them coming in their two run fourth and another three in their two run seventh.

thought we battled today, manager John Gibbons said. was a tough ball game. It got a little hairy there in the end (the eighth). But we needed that.

name of the game is winning. Throw the individual stuff out the window, canada goose outlet reviews just win some baseball games. That canada goose outlet where we at and we desperately needed cheap canada goose that today. Now hopefully we can build on it, come out and play another good game tomorrow. building a 4 0 lead, the Jays were on the verge of throwing it all away in the eighth as the Rangers scored a run and with one out had runners on the corners. McGowan then canada goose struck out Daniel canada goose outlet uk canada goose parka Robertson and appeared to end the inning by striking Canada Goose Online out Adrian Beltre on a high fastball. However, the ball ticked off Dioner Navarro glove and went to the backstop while Beltre sprinted to official canada goose outlet first to load the bases.

McGowan came back to leave Canada Goose sale the bags full by striking out Jake Smolinski his third punch out in two thirds of an inning.

was a game where you never felt easy, really never felt comfortable, Gibbons said. got in a little jam there goose outlet canada in the eighth and (Dustin) McGowan bailed us out. It wasn an easy game by cheap canada goose any means. ran into his lone jam in the fourth after the first two Rangers reached on consecutive singles.

Not to worry, though, as the right hander came back to strike out canada goose outlet online uk both Jake Smolinski and Leonys Martin, needing six pitches. Arencibia, who ground into a fielder choice to end the inning.

He was more than pleased to be the team stopper, snapping the skid.

just exciting to get the win. I hope this puts us on a roll, Stroman said. knew we needed a win and that one thing I pride myself on, coming in every fifth day and putting my team in a position to win and luckily canada goose outlet nyc I was able to do that today. Like I said, hopefully this gets us rolling. the offence was first baseman Dan Johnson, who collected his first two RBIs for the Jays with a double in the fourth and sac fly in the seventh.

been tinkering with a few things, trying to get back to feeling normal in the box, Johnson said. getting in that situation, looking for something to put in the outfield, I got a good piece of it and put it over his head (for a RBI double).

supposed to drive in runs and the pressure in those situations, take it for what it worth and try to use it to your advantage. has seen Stroman both at Buffalo and in the big leagues and he is impressed with the 23 year old.

saw the confidence that he threw in Buffalo today, Johnson said. think his last inning when he went 3 canada goose outlet uk sale 0 and knew that if the guy gets on he probably coming out, he worked his way back, got the out and finished the inning. That was huge. You could see the team go canada goose outlet uk yeah, this is our game. Let go. You can say enough about how he pitched today. the opening 17 games following the all star break is supposed to supply the Jays with a schedule, the way they have played the preceding three weeks and the injuries to key regulars makes it difficult to see how they can get on any sort of https://www.st-edwards-cam.org.uk run not with their current roster.

But if they are looking for any opportunity, it right in front of them.

need to play real good baseball because the past few weeks we haven Gibbons said before the game. been very inconsistent, that just the reality of it.

had that little buffer zone that just dried up on us. That gone now. So, we need to play better than.500 baseball if we going to be realistic (about winning the division). division leading Orioles, meanwhile, are out on an extended west coast trip with games against Oakland, Anaheim and Seattle and then get Anaheim and Seattle back in Baltimore.