Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is in his seventh season in the big league but still at only 26 years old.
He is also the most recent member of the club of 1000 Blue Jays, and he will seek to add a few others in total when Toronto visit athletics on Saturday evening in the mid -three -game series in West Sacramento, California.
Guerrero is only the 10th player to reach 1,000 for Blue Jays. He arrived with a simple fifth round of the 7-6 Friday victory and added another hit later in the competition.
“It means a lot,” said Guerrero in an post-match interview with Sportsnet. “It is a blessing. I must thank God for helping me reach 1,000 strokes.”
The late Tony Fernandez is the leader of all Toronto time with 1,583 strokes. Unless injuries or a business, Guerrero should exceed Fernandez later this decade.
Guerrero is more immediate on the help of Blue Jays to continue their solid game. Toronto won 11 of the 12 games and has a two -game advance on New York Yankees in the American League East.
Meanwhile, athletics marked three times in the ninth Friday to scare Toronto. But Nick Kurtz struck Jeff Hoffman to end it.
Earlier this season, Kurtz delivered two circuits on a series of four games against the Houston Astros.
“The child cannot pass each time,” said director of athletics Mark Kotsay. “The fight is there by the club and showed it by putting it in marble in the ninth round as a winning race.”
The A collapsed earlier in the game. The Toronto fifth round was helped by the launch error of the second Zack Gelof and the club’s failure to be executed during a Blue Jays double -volley attempt.
George Springer was third when Guerrero took off for second place. The Receiver Shea Langeliers threw the second and the Copup Max Muncy in the second and grab the ball in front of the bag and threw at home. Muncy did a blow and langeliers could not have held him while Springer scored.
“If we play Catch, Springer came out of 30 feet,” Kotsay said. “It is the round where the game has moved away from us. It seems that when we make a mistake, it is aggravated by a few strokes and the Channel continues.”
The hope of A All-Star The Jacob Wilson Corner Stop on Saturday. He was struck by a field on his left hand on Tuesday and missed the last three games.
The Blue Jays will send the right-hander Kevin Gausman (6-6, 4.13 ERA) to the mound on Saturday.
Gausman, 34, had only one victory in his last seven departures. This triumph came when he bleached the Cleveland Guardians on two strokes in eight heats during a 6-0 victory on June 26.
Gausman was not involved in the decision when he started the 8-4 victory of Toronto against athletics on June 1.
It is 1-2 with an MPM of 2.25 in seven career departures against athletics.
The left-hander Jacob Lopez (2-5, 4.26) will start for the A.
Lopez was pounded while it lasts only 1 2/3 rounds against the Blue Jays in Toronto on May 29. He granted seven points and six strokes during the 12-0 defeat, serving a three-point circuit to Ernie Clement and a two-point shot in Guerrero.
Lopez is 1-1 with an MPM of 15.43 in two career starts against the Blue Jays.
– Field level media
