Chris Bassett (Toronto Blue Jays) took the loss for the second straight game.
Bassett dropped to 4-5 on the season after allowing seven runs (seven earned) on nine hits (two home runs) with three walks and five strikeouts in four innings of work against the Minnesota Twins at Target Field in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, on Monday (28 April).
Toronto took a 1-0 lead in the first inning on a leadoff homer by Bo Bissett. But the bases were loaded in the bottom of the inning. He walked leadoff hitter Joey Gallo and then gave up a double to Edouard Julien. Byron Buxton struck out Byron Buxton and then got Alex Kirillov to ground out to shortstop, but Gallo scored and Julien moved to third.
With runners at second and third, Bassett walked Gleyber Castro on a pitch to the body. Castro stole to put runners on second and third and gave up a two-run single to Matt Walner.
The Bats couldn’t settle down in the second. After giving up a leadoff single to Kyle Palmer, he retired Michael A. Taylor and Gallo, but gave up an RBI double to Julien.
Toronto cut the deficit to one in the top of the third on Bissett’s two-run triple with runners on first and second. Bissett also got Taylor to ground out to third base with the bases loaded in the bottom of the third. Cavan Biggio tied the game in the top of the fourth on a solo home run. The Bats seemed to settle down in the bottom of the fourth, recording their first three-hit inning of the day, but it all came crashing down in the fifth.
Bassett gave up a leadoff single to Kirillov and then a two-run homer to Castro. He then threw a wild pitch to the middle of the strike zone to Walner for a back-to-back homer. Eventually, Toronto pulled Bassett and brought up Anthony Bass.메이저사이트
Minnesota answered with a run in the bottom of the seventh on a Castro single and a run in the bottom of the eighth on a Julien single. Toronto scored three runs in the top of the ninth on Dolton Bashaw’s two-run homer and Bissett’s RBI single, but couldn’t score any more runs and lost 7-9.
Bissett had performed well in the first three games of May. He tossed seven scoreless innings against the Pittsburgh Pirates on the 6th, a nine-hit shutout against the Atlanta Braves on the 13th, and a seven-hit shutout against the New York Yankees on the 18th. But after giving up six runs (two earned) in 6 1/3 innings against the Tampa Bay Rays on the 23rd, he collapsed against Minnesota.
Bassitt signed a three-year, $63 million contract with Toronto prior to this season. He is 5-4 with a 3.80 ERA in 11 games this season with 33 runs (28 earned) in 66 1/3 innings.