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- Updated: September 17, 2016
ANAHEIM — The Blue Jays haven’t been scoring a lot of runs this month but the way they were pitching on Friday night at Angel Stadium, it did not seem to matter.
R.A. Dickey tossed five scoreless innings while Joe Biagini, Joaquin Benoit, Jason Grilli and Roberto Osuna took it the rest of the way in Toronto’s 5-0 victory over the Angels. The win allowed the Blue Jays to remain two games back of Boston in the American League East and tied with Baltimore for the first AL Wild Card spot.
Troy Tulowitzki provided all of the early offense with a two-run shot in the top of the fourth inning. Toronto then broke the game open in the top of the ninth with three runs. Edwin Encarnacion hit a two-run shot to left field for his 40th home run of the year while Russell Martin doubled and then scored on a sacrifice fly by Josh Donaldson.
Angels right-hander Jered Weaver scattered seven hits and three walks over six innings. He struck out four and threw 61 of his 101 pitches for strikes en route to his 10th quality start of the season. It was the fourth time in his last five starts that Weaver surrendered two earned runs or less as he appears to be finishing the year strong.
Boston and Baltimore also came out on the winning end Friday night but the Blue Jays did pick up a game on Detroit and Seattle in the Wild Card standings. The …
