Alek Manoah had a strong outing in his return to the Toronto Blue Jays in Detroit as the Jays walloped the Tigers, 12-2. Manoah spent close to a month at the Jays complex in Dunedin after having a terrible start to the season.
He came back and pitched 6 innings, allowing 5 hits, one run and striking out 8 with no walks.
Manoah entered the game with a 6.36 ERA in the first two months of the season. He says he’s in a better place mentally and physically after two minor league starts and weeks of figuring out what was going wrong at the Jays pitchers lab.
George Springer and Danny Jansen homered for the Jays who are tied for the second wild card spot with Houston.
In a battle of the top two teams in baseball, the Atlanta Braves edged the Tampa Bay Rays, 2-1.
Sean Murphy hit a two-run homer in the 4th. Wander Franco homered for Tampa in the bottom of the first. The Rays have lost 7 of 10.
Former Yankee Jameson Taillon came back to New York and helped the Chicago Cubs to a 3-0 shutout. That’s the first win in interleague play ever for the Cubbies in New York. They had gone 0-12 before last night.
Boston dropped Oakland, 7-3. Nick Pivetta pitched five innings of relief to pick up the win.
Baltimore over Minnesota, 3-1. Ramon Urias hit a two-run double in the top of the 9th.
Milwaukee stopped Cincinnati, 7-3 to move a game behind the Reds for top spot in the NL Central. Willy Adames hit a two-run homer for the Brewers. Joey Votto had a two-run shot for the Reds.
In CFL football, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers improved to 4-1 as they downed Calgary, 24-11.
On Today: Harness racing at Red Shores in Charlottetown with post time at 6.00. The morning line favourite in the 11th race feature is Mr. Reilly with driver Corey MacPherson on the 12-dash card.
Summerside begins its big week of summer racing on Sunday with post time at 1.00 during Lobster Carnival Week. The Governors Plate eliminations on the card in two races.
Friday’s Scoreboard
CFL
Winnipeg 24 Calgary 11
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MLB
American League
Toronto 12 Detroit 2
Cleveland 3 Kansas City 0
Boston 7 Oakland 3
Baltimore 3 Minnesota 1 (10)
Seattle 10 Houston 1
National League
Philadelphia 4 Miami 3
Milwaukee 7 Cincinnati 3
N.Y. Mets 7 San Diego 5 (10)
Arizona 7 Pittsburgh 3
Colorado 5 San Francisco 2
Interleague
Atlanta 2 Tampa Bay 1
Chicago Cubs 3 N.Y. Yankees 0
Texas 7 Washington 2
Chicago White Sox 8 St. Louis 7
L.A. Dodgers 11 L.A. Angels 4
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Saturday’s Games
(All times Eastern)
CFL
Ottawa at Hamilton, 7 p.m.
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MLB
American League
Toronto (Gausman 7-4) at Detroit (Manning 2-1), 1:10 p.m.
Baltimore (Wells 6-4) at Minnesota (Gray 4-2), 2:10 p.m.
Kansas City (Singer 5-7) at Cleveland (Williams 0-1), 4:10 p.m.
Oakland (Blackburn 1-1) at Boston (Paxton 4-1), 4:10 p.m.
Seattle (Woo 1-1) at Houston (Valdez 7-6), 7:15 p.m.
National League
Colorado (Seabold 1-5) at San Francisco (TBD), 4:05 p.m.
Cincinnati (Weaver 2-2) at Milwaukee (Rea 5-4), 4:10 p.m.
Philadelphia (Suarez 2-3) at Miami (Garrett 4-2), 4:10 p.m.
Pittsburgh (Keller 9-4) at Arizona (TBD), 4:10 p.m.
N.Y. Mets (Peterson 2-6) at San Diego (Snell 5-7), 10:10 p.m.
Interleague
Chicago Cubs (Smyly 7-5) at N.Y. Yankees (Cole 8-2), 1:05 p.m.
St. Louis (Mikolas 4-5) at Chicago White Sox (TBD), 2:10 p.m.
Texas (Heaney 5-5) at Washington (Irvin 1-5), 4:05 p.m.
Atlanta (Strider 10-2) at Tampa Bay (Bradley 5-4), 7:15 p.m.
L.A. Angels (Detmers 2-5) at L.A. Dodgers (TBD), 9:10 p.m.
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MLS
Atlanta at CF Montreal, 7:30 p.m.
Saint Louis City SC at Toronto FC, 7:30 p.m.
Cincinnati at Charlotte FC, 7:30 p.m.
New York City FC at Columbus, 7:30 p.m.
Miami at D.C. United, 7:30 p.m.
New England at New York, 7:30 p.m.
Nashville at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.
Sporting Kansas City at Houston, 8:30 p.m.
Austin FC at Minnesota, 8:30 p.m.
FC Dallas at Colorado, 9:30 p.m.
Orlando City at Real Salt Lake, 9:30 p.m.
Seattle at Vancouver, 10:30 p.m.
Philadelphia at LA Galaxy, 10:30 p.m.
San Jose at Los Angeles FC, 10:30 p.m.
(The Canadian Press)
