Players of the Day for Saturday, August 3, 2019
American League
There was no shortage of significant individual performances across both leagues Saturday, but the most notable came in a group effort, as Aaron Sanchez and a trio of relievers combined to no-hit the visiting Mariners, 9-0.
Sanchez, who was acquired from Toronto prior to the trade deadline just days ago, shunted Seattle batters over the first six innings, walking two, fanning six in his first start as an Astro.
He was followed by Will Harris in the seventh, who walked one baut tter bended the inning with a double play. The eighth was worked by Joe Biagini, who also walked one but completed his inning without incident. In the ninth, Chris Devenski put down the Mariners 1-2-3, finalizing the third no-hitter in the majors this season. Both Harris and Biagini are former Blue Jays, also coming to Houston via the Sanchez trade.
This is the second time in the past month Seattle has been the victim a combined no-hitter. On July 12, two Angels' pitchers didn't allow a hit in a game dedicated to Tyler Skaggs, who suffered an untimely death days earlier.
Oakland's Mike Fiers owns the only other no-hitter in the majors this season.
Elsewhere, Nelson Cruz continued his impressive hitting, swatting three home runs in Minnesota's 11-3 win over Kansas City. Cruz has 30 homers and 72 RBI. Cruz has 17 home runs and 36 RBI in his last 30 games.
The Yankees likely put an end to Boston's post-season hopes, taking both ends of a double-header in New York, 9-2, and 6-4. D.J. LeMahieu socked a pair of homers in the opener, driving in four runs. LeMahieu leads the AL with a .336 batting average.
Boston has dropped three straight to the Yanks, extending their losing streak to seven. The third-place Red Sox trail the Yankees by 13 1/2 games and are 5 1/2 games out of the second wild card spot.
National League
The wild card race is alive and well in the National League, with no fewer than eight teams within 4 1/2 games of each other.
Arizona is near the bottom of that slate, but they made sure Stephen Strasberg and the Washington Nationals felt their presence with an unwelcome, 18-7, blowout of the visitors.
Eduardo Escobar mashed a pair of home runs and drove in seven runs as the Diamondbacks pummeled Strasberg, the league's leading Cy Young candidate, for nine hits and nine earned runs over 4 2/3 innings.
Escobar socked a two-run homer in the first inning, drove in a run with a single in the fifth, walked to force in another run in the seventh and boomed a three-run blast in the eighth. He has 24 homers on the season and his 88 RBI is second in the league to Pittsburgh's Josh Bell (89).
The Mets are also in the wild card hunt, 4 1/2 games off the pace set by St. Louis. Winning for the eighth time in their last nine games, New York got a huge effort from Wilson Ramos, who singled three times and belted his 11th home run, driving in six runs in the Mets' 7-5 win at Pittsburgh.
Finally, LA's Walker Buehler improved to 10-2 with a 4-1 win over the visiting Padres. Buehler allowed five hits, one of them a solo homer by Manuel Margot in the eighth, but tossed a complete game, striking out a season-high 15.
American League
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| Sanchez leads no-hit effort |
Sanchez, who was acquired from Toronto prior to the trade deadline just days ago, shunted Seattle batters over the first six innings, walking two, fanning six in his first start as an Astro.
He was followed by Will Harris in the seventh, who walked one baut tter bended the inning with a double play. The eighth was worked by Joe Biagini, who also walked one but completed his inning without incident. In the ninth, Chris Devenski put down the Mariners 1-2-3, finalizing the third no-hitter in the majors this season. Both Harris and Biagini are former Blue Jays, also coming to Houston via the Sanchez trade.
This is the second time in the past month Seattle has been the victim a combined no-hitter. On July 12, two Angels' pitchers didn't allow a hit in a game dedicated to Tyler Skaggs, who suffered an untimely death days earlier.
Oakland's Mike Fiers owns the only other no-hitter in the majors this season.
Elsewhere, Nelson Cruz continued his impressive hitting, swatting three home runs in Minnesota's 11-3 win over Kansas City. Cruz has 30 homers and 72 RBI. Cruz has 17 home runs and 36 RBI in his last 30 games.
The Yankees likely put an end to Boston's post-season hopes, taking both ends of a double-header in New York, 9-2, and 6-4. D.J. LeMahieu socked a pair of homers in the opener, driving in four runs. LeMahieu leads the AL with a .336 batting average.
Boston has dropped three straight to the Yanks, extending their losing streak to seven. The third-place Red Sox trail the Yankees by 13 1/2 games and are 5 1/2 games out of the second wild card spot.
National League
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| Escobar: 2 HR, 7 RBI |
Arizona is near the bottom of that slate, but they made sure Stephen Strasberg and the Washington Nationals felt their presence with an unwelcome, 18-7, blowout of the visitors.
Eduardo Escobar mashed a pair of home runs and drove in seven runs as the Diamondbacks pummeled Strasberg, the league's leading Cy Young candidate, for nine hits and nine earned runs over 4 2/3 innings.
Escobar socked a two-run homer in the first inning, drove in a run with a single in the fifth, walked to force in another run in the seventh and boomed a three-run blast in the eighth. He has 24 homers on the season and his 88 RBI is second in the league to Pittsburgh's Josh Bell (89).
The Mets are also in the wild card hunt, 4 1/2 games off the pace set by St. Louis. Winning for the eighth time in their last nine games, New York got a huge effort from Wilson Ramos, who singled three times and belted his 11th home run, driving in six runs in the Mets' 7-5 win at Pittsburgh.
Finally, LA's Walker Buehler improved to 10-2 with a 4-1 win over the visiting Padres. Buehler allowed five hits, one of them a solo homer by Manuel Margot in the eighth, but tossed a complete game, striking out a season-high 15.
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