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The Toronto Blue Jays live to play another day.Brandon Scherff Womens Jersey With their backs against the wall in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series, the Blue Jays got a huge start from Marco Estrada, who pitched the game of his life and prolonged Toronto's season for at least one more game. The Jays won 7-1, as Troy Tulowitzki's three-run double in the sixth inning paced the offense. Now, the series heads to K.C., where David Price will take the mound for the Jays and an entire country will be asking itself, "Can they pull off another comeback?" When the Blue Jays needed him most, Estrada came up huge. Not only did he help them win and http://www.redskinsshopnfl.com/Authentic-Brandon-Scherff-Jerseystay alive, he preserved their beat-up bullpen for Games 6 and 7. Estrada, a 32-year-old who had his best MLB season in 2015, had his change-up working spectacularly. He allowed just three hits through 7.2 innings, striking out four and walking one. In the seventh inning, the Blue Jays braced themselves for the worst, as Estrada went through the lineup for the third time, but he had an eventless inning. He got into some trouble in the eighth, allowing two straight hits, but the Jays' bullpen came in and helped out. Troy Tulowitzki hasn't been at his best this postseason, fighting injury and whatnot, but he's been able to come up with a big hit a few times. Add Wednesday to that list. His three-run double in the sixth made a one-run game (in which the resilient Royals could easily come back) basically out of reach. Jose Bautista might be finding his groove. After hitting .167 in the first four games of the series, Bautista had two hits, scored a run and drove in another Amari Cooper Youth Jerseyon an RBI double in the seventh. He was on base in three of his four plate appearances. Edinson Volquez came out firing in the first inning, hitting 98 mph on four pitches. That's heat for him. But he couldn't keep it up all day. The second-inning homer he allowed to Chris Colabello didn't kill the Royals, but Volquez lost his composure in the sixth, leading to a hook and Tulowitzki's three-run double off Kelvin Herrera, the runs from which were charged to Volquez. His day was better than his five-inning, five-run line, but Volquez had a chance to pitch his team to the World Series and he couldn't. The middle of the Royals' lineup. Only Alcides Escobar, Salvador Perez and Alex Gordon had hits off Estrada. http://www.raidersnflprostore.com/Authentic-Amari-Cooper-JerseyTheir No. 2-No. 6 hitters, meanwhile, were a combined 0-for-17. The Jays' starter was perfect the first trip through the lineup until Escobar's fourth inning single. They didn't get another hit until two outs in the eighth, when Perez homered on Estrada's 106th pitch of the night and Gordon followed with a single. Other than that, the Royals hit the ball right into outs, all around the field. Jose Bautista's sixth-inning at-bat against Volquez seemed to be the turning point. He walked after a tough 10-pitch at-bat, including five straight foul balls. The eventual ball four looked pretty good, but Bautista checked his swing and went to first, putting two runners on. When Volquez lost that big battle to Bautista, that was it for him. He walked the next batter, which scored a run and then was pulled from the game. Two batters later, Tulowitzki hit the bases-clearing double
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