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Slip costs Miley in otherwise strong start
- Updated: July 24, 2016
TORONTO — Mariners starter Wade Miley made one mistake on Sunday afternoon, and it proved to be the difference in a 2-0 loss to the Blue Jays.
The 29-year-old slipped on his delivery of an 0-1 fastball to Edwin Encarnacion in the fourth, and the All-Star made Miley pay, putting the ball over the center-field wall to give the Blue Jays a 1-0 lead.
“I kind of slipped a little bit. I was trying to go up and away and I fell down,” Miley said of the pitch to Encarnacion. “Somehow it ended up middle-middle and he crushed it. I didn’t think I was going to be able to throw anywhere near the plate when it happened, of course it went right down the middle, but that’s part of it, it happens.
“Normally when you slip a little bit, the ball does not go anywhere …
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