LA Angels 4, Toronto 3
When: 7:07 PM ET, Friday, May 9, 2014
Where: Rogers Centre, Toronto, Ontario
Temperature:
Indoors
Umpires:
Home -
Angel Hernandez, 1B -
Adrian Johnson, 2B -
Toby Basner, 3B -
Larry Vanover
Attendance:
21383
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Angels 4, Blue Jays 3: Erick Aybar capped a three-hit night by leading off the ninth with a triple and scoring the tiebreaking run on Raul Ibanez's sacrifice fly as visiting Los Angeles snapped Toronto's five-game winning streak.
Aybar also had a pair of ground-rule doubles and Mike Trout belted a solo homer as the Angels won their fifth straight at Rogers Centre. Joe Smith (2-0) got the win despite giving up Jose Reyes' tying homer in the eighth before Ernesto Frieri worked a perfect ninth for his fourth save
Reyes had three hits and scored twice and Melky Cabrera went 2-for-3 to boost his average to .338 for the Blue Jays, who have dropped eight of the last nine meetings with Los Angeles. Brett Cecil (0-3), Toronto's fourth pitcher, took the loss.
Reyes led off the first with a single, moved to second on a walk and came around on back-to-back wild pitches by Garrett Richards for a 1-0 lead, but Los Angeles responded in its next at-bat as Efren Navarro doubled with two outs and scored on Collin Cowgill's single. Trout led off the top of the third with a homer but Cabrera singled in the bottom of the frame and eventually came around on Richards' third wild pitch to knot it at 2-2.
The Angels loaded the bases against reliever Sergio Santos in the seventh on Aybar's second ground-rule double and walks to Albert Pujols (intentional) and Ibanez before pushing across the go-ahead run when Steve Delabar walked Howie Kendrick on four pitches. Reyes greeted Smith with a leadoff blast in the eighth to draw Toronto even.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Richards allowed two runs but threw three wild pitches in seven innings while Toronto RHP Dustin McGowan permitted two runs in five innings. ... Blue Jays RF Jose Bautista singled in the eighth inning to keep alive his streak of reaching base in all 36 games this season. ... Angels bench coach Dino Ebel managed in the absence of Mike Scioscia, who is away from the club Friday and Saturday to attend his daughter's college graduation. ... Blue Jays 3B Paul Lawrie (hamstring) missed his fourth straight game but is expected back in the lineup over the weekend.
Top Game Performances
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| LA Angels
|
9 |
1 |
18 |
.265 |
15 |
7 |
4 |
7 |
2 |
0 |
| Toronto
|
7 |
1 |
11 |
.212 |
14 |
9 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
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