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#1 am 13.01.2015 um 02:28 Uhr

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TORONTO – Minutes after Kevin Pillar played the hero in Monday nights 5-4 Blue Jays walk off win over the Twins, he alluded to a conversation he shared with Jose Bautista earlier in the evening. Jonathan Newsome Colts Jersey . The two were in the batting cage moments before game time. Bautista was taking final warm up cuts. Pillar was hitting soft toss. The one-time utility player turned All-Star pulled aside the clubs young, fourth outfielder and offered him some advice. Pillar described it as a discussion about hitting. Bautista told him there was nothing wrong with his swing, that he should remain aggressive in the batters box in order that the pitcher doesnt get too comfortable. He reminded Pillar that in Pillars role, he could step to the plate in crucial, late-game situations. Sure enough, Pillar got the game-winning single to snap a 4-4 tie in the ninth inning. Sure enough, he remained aggressive, perhaps too much so early in the at-bat when Pillar swung at the first two pitches down and out of the strike zone. With the count 1-2, Pillar took a pitch on the outer half to right field, Erik Kratz came around to score and the Blue Jays celebrated. Pillar thought enough of the conversation to share it with the assembled media postgame. Bautista seemed surprised to be approached on the topic. "You hope to have an effect on all your teammates, no matter what you talk about or discuss," said Bautista. "Even if its, hey youre opening up a little bit or having a 10-minute talk about being mentally ready, preparation and mindset and all that. You hope that your teammates listen to you. You dont hope that they do exactly what you say and if you say hop on one foot they start doing it, but if you make a comment that you think is going to help you hope they at least listen. Digest it and if it helps and it works then so be it." The type of conversation Bautista had with Pillar is rare this season, according to Bautista, because the Blue Jays are laden with veterans. The need doesnt arise as often. This, too, is the second year the group has been together after being arranged in the flurry of high-profile offseason moves made in November and December, 2012. "I think each person is more knowledgeable of others capabilities, more realistic with the expectations," said Bautista. "I think last year, people didnt know what to expect exactly with other players. Expectations might have been a little unrealistic, sometimes on the higher end and sometimes on the lower end. Sometimes you might have expected more out of somebody and that might have been not right. Sometimes you expected less and the guys surprise you. So now I think everybody is more in tune with each others capabilities." DICKEY THROWING MORE FASTBALLS R.A. Dickey is using his fastball more this season than he did last year. Hes thrown a heater 14.3 per cent of the time in 2014, compared to 11.9 per cent last season. This years number is more reflective of his 2012 Cy Young award season with the Mets, when 14 per cent of his pitches were fastballs. "I think its conscious because Ive had a lot of high-pitch games," said Dickey. "I had a 31-pitch first inning against (the Twins on Monday night), I had like a 30-pitch against the Royals, first inning. I need to get back to trying to induce contact earlier in counts so in that regard it has been something that Ive consciously tried to do. Especially with teams, Minnesota for instance is a team that leads the league in pitches taken so whenever you have a club like that you want to try to get ahead of guys as much as possible." Dickey is also conscious of his walk rate, which has skyrocketed this year. Hes issued a free pass to 10.2 per cent of hitters hes faced, compared to 7.5 per cent last year and 5.8 per cent in 2012. In each of his last two starts, hes allowed home runs off his fastball. On June 4 in Detroit, Miguel Cabrera took him deep on a first pitch fastball in the first inning. On Monday night against the Twins, leadoff hitter Danny Santana hit a home run off a full count fastball. Dickey had been falling behind in that first inning in Detroit and thought he could sneak a heater by Cabrera. "That was just a roll of the dice," said Dickey. "I had gone 2-0 with the first two hitters and felt that he would want to get in a hitters count. I tried to steal a strike the first time through the lineup and his numbers off me, I think hes had like 14 at-bats and two first-pitch swings and so the percentages were in my favour that he was taking and so I tried to play to those and got burned." Half of the home runs Dickeys allowed this season, five of 10, have been off fastballs. Has he become too predictable, throwing fastballs when in need of a strike? "I would hope not because I try to do a good job of throwing a lot of 2-0, 3-1, 3-2 knuckleballs," said Dickey. "Im not in the habit of routinely throwing a fastball in a fastball count but because I dont feature the same velocity as a lot of guys its a lot easier to put the barrel on the ball if theyve seen multiple fastballs in an at-bat; if theyre not well located in particular." JAYS INK TWO MORE PICKS The Blue Jays locked up their second and fifth round picks from last weeks amateur draft. They are highly-touted right-handed pitcher Sean Reid-Foley (49th overall) out of Sandalwood High School in Jacksonville, Florida and centerfielder Lane Thomas (144th overall) out of Bearden High School in Knoxville, Tennessee. Both players are 18 years old. Mike Adams Jersey . Beaulieu has four goals and 10 assists in 32 AHL games and had one assist in five games for Montreal this season. The 23-year-old Nattinen has five goals and six assists in 37 games for the Bulldogs this season. Trent Richardson Jersey . "First, I would like to offer my deepest and sincerest apologies for any harm I have inflicted on University of Missouri defensive lineman, Michael Sam," the statement read.SEATTLE -- Seattle forward David Estrada jogged off the pitch to raucous applause when he left the match in the 87th minute Saturday night. He made the sign of the cross, hugged his coach, then heard his name chanted by the 38,709 representing the largest turnout for a Major League Soccer opener in Seattle. Later, he would have his own emotional response to his superb night. Estradas three goals led the Seattle Sounders past Toronto FC 3-1 on Saturday night at CenturyLink Field in the opener for each club. Estradas impressive performance was the third hat trick for the Sounders (1-0-0), joining Lamar Neagle on August 27, 2011, and Blaise Nkufo on Sept. 18, 2010, both against the Columbus Crew. The Sounders had tried Estrada at multiple positions since drafting him in 2010. Head coach Sigi Schmid decided to move the third-year player back to forward this spring, where he played at UCLA. Saturday, Estrada rewarded the move. "Its been a long time coming," Estrada said after pausing to withhold tears. It was a tough game for Toronto, which lost Torsten Frings.The team captain injured his hamstring in the 24th minute when he chased down Estrada then poked the ball away. Frings will be re-evaluated in Toronto. He was replaced by Aaron Maund. "I think if you watch in the first half we played quite well," Toronto FC coach Aron Winter said. "At the end you got to force something to at least score one of two goals. It was very hard that we lost and I think that we didnt give them everything." Estrada is in the llineup after multiple moves were made by the team. Adam Vinatieri Colts Jersey. The Sounders made a preseason trade of young forwards Neagle and Mike Fucito. Forward OBrian White was injured last year and will be released. It all added up to a shot for Estrada, who has scored four goals in his last two home matches. "Once we realized that OBrian White wouldnt be out there for us right now, that we were short up front, we said, Look, were going to stick you back up front. We think thats your best spot." Schmid said. "His work rate is unbelievable. Like Ive said, nobody deserves it more in terms of the effort that they put in day in and day out." To open the scoring in the first half, Alvaro Fernandez zipped down the left side and masterfully switched the ball around the back of his left leg with his right instep. The move left Toronto defender Ty Harden staggered and opened a lane for Fernandezs cross. Estrada mined the ball away from Torontos goaltender Milos Kocic for the 17th-minute score. Early in the second half, Estrada was sent ahead by a pass from Sounders fullback Marc Burch. Estrada ran ahead of two Toronto defenders, paused, then finished past a closing Kocic with his right foot in the 51st minute. Toronto FC (0-1-0) forward Ryan Johnson was able to resurrect its hope with a finish in the 62nd minute to cut Seattles lead to 2-1. But Estrada was free again following exquisite passing among the Sounders midfielders and a final short through ball from Fernandez, which led to his third goal in the 63rd minute. cheap jerseys cheap jerseys from china ' ' '

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