TORONTO — Nathan Lukes hit a two-run house run, Shane Bieber pitched 5 innings and the Toronto Blue Jays (92-68) stayed atop the AL East by beating the Tampa Bay Rays 4-2 on Friday evening.
Toronto got here into the ultimate sequence of the season tied with the Yankees for the most effective document within the AL. The Blue Jays maintain the tiebreaker over New York.
The host Yankees defeated Baltimore 8-4.
Lukes went 2 for 4 with three RBIs and George Springer reached base thrice and scored twice as Toronto improved to 52-27 at house.
Junior Caminero hit his forty fifth house run and Jonathan Aranda returned from the injured record with a solo homer however that was all for the Rays.
Bieber (4-2) allowed two runs and 5 hits.
Left-hander Mason Fluharty relieved Bieber and struck out 4 of the six batters he confronted over two excellent innings.
Tommy Nance bought two outs within the eighth however left after Caminero’s single. Brendon Little walked Aranda however ended the inning by retiring pinch-hitter Christopher Morel.
Jeff Hoffman pitched round a pair of walks within the ninth however retired Yandy Díaz to strand runners at second and third and earn his thirty third save in 40 probabilities.
Springer led off the sport with a double towards Rays right-hander Adrian Houser and scored when Lukes adopted with an RBI single.
Caminero and Aranda hit back-to-back homers off Bieber within the second.
Toronto tied it within the backside of the second when Daulton Varsho doubled and scored on Ernie Clement’s bloop single.
Houser (8-5) allowed 4 runs and 7 hits in six innings.
Key second
Lukes snapped a 2-2 tie within the fifth together with his twelfth house run, connecting on a 1-0 pitch from Houser.
Key stat
The Blue Jays are 71-30 after they hit at the very least one house run.
Up subsequent
Blue Jays RHP Trey Yesavage (0-0, 5.00 ERA) was scheduled to face Rays RHP Joe Boyle (1-3, 4.40) on Saturday.
Marlins thwart Mets
MIAMI — Sandy Alcantara gave up two runs in seven-plus innings, Connor Norby homered and the Miami Marlins rallied to beat the New York Mets 6-2.
The Mets started Friday one recreation forward of Cincinnati for the third NL wild card.
Xavier Edwards had three hits and Otto López doubled and singled for the Marlins.
Alcantara (11-12) settled down after permitting Francisco Lindor’s game-starting homer and Pete Alonso’s RBI double within the first. The 2022 NL Cy Younger Award winner allowed six hits by the primary three innings then retired 10 straight earlier than Lindor walked to steer off the eighth that ended his outing.
The Marlins chased Mets starter Brandon Sproat (0-2) throughout a six-run fifth that erased a 2-0 deficit. Heriberto Hernández hit a two-run triple and scored on Jakob Marsee’s RBI groundout. Xavier Edwards hit an RBI single and Norby’s two-run pinch-hit homer off reliever Gregory Soto capped the outburst.
Cade Gibson relieved Alcantara and bought the primary two outs within the eighth. Tyler Phillips closed with the four-out save after the Mets loaded the bases within the eighth.
Lindor’s first inning homer was his eleventh leadoff blast of the season and thirty first of his profession.
Sproat gave up 4 runs and 5 hits over 4 2/3 innings. It was Sproat’s fourth profession begin since being referred to as up from Triple-A on Sept. 7.
Key second
Phillips inherited the bases loaded when Soto reached on a fielder’s alternative and Nimmo reached on a throwing error by second baseman Edwards, and Jeff McNeil labored a two-out stroll. Pinch hitter Mark Vientos popped out to quick left subject to finish New York’s risk.
Key stat
Norby’s drive was the ninth pinch-hit homer by the Marlins this season.
Up subsequent
RHP Clay Holmes (11-8, 3.66 ERA) will begin for the Mets on Saturday whereas the Marlins will go together with RHP Eury Pérez (7-5, 4.20).
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