David Price helped the Toronto Blue Jays into the 2015 postseason by going 9-1

BOSTON — after a late-season trade from the Detroit Tigers.But other than that chapter in his career http://www.giantsfanproshop.com/authentic-deion-sanders-jersey , Price has tortured those same Blue Jays.The left-hander, who has been brilliant since the All-Star break, takes a 20-3 lifetime record and a 2.52 ERA to the mound when he faces Toronto’s Aaron Sanchez in the second game of a three-game series at Fenway Park on Wednesday night.Article continues below ...The Red Sox became the first team in baseball to clinch a postseason bid by coming on late to beat the Jays 7-2 Tuesday night — Chris Sale coming off the disabled list to pitch one inning — 26 pitches, two strikeouts — to extend his personal shutout streak to 29 straight frames.Price, 3-0 with a 2.30 ERA (48 strikeouts in 44 1/3 innings) since the break, has already beaten the Jays twice this season, yielding four earned runs in 10 1/3 innings.He worked 6 1/3 innings in his last start, yielding just two hits and striking out 10 before the bullpen blew the win, leaving his record at 14-6 with a 3.57 ERA. That was his first start after missing a turn because he took a line drive off his pitching wrist.Price, in the third year of a seven-year contract with Boston, can opt out of the deal after this season, but Tuesday told masslive.com he wasn’t going anywhere.“Why would I leave here to go to a team that’s not as good as this team?” Price said. “I came here to win. I don’t worry about all the other stuff. Just come here to win. We’re going to have a really good chance to do that.”He added his relationship with the Boston media, strained in his first two years, had improved.Sanchez will be making his fourth start since coming off the disabled list. His last outing was his best in the first three — three runs, six hits, two walks and eight strikeouts in a no-decision at Tampa Bay.He is 0-1 with a 6.19 ERA since his return, but was raked for seven runs on nine hits in five innings in the first one.The right-hander is 4-3 with a 4.36 ERA in 18 games (10 starts) against the Red Sox Alen Hanson Jersey , 3-2 with a 4.35 ERA in eight games (five starts) at Fenway.J.D. Martinez is 5-for-16 (.313) with a home run and Andrew Benintendi 3-for-10 (.300) lifetime against Sanchez, but Ian Kinsler is 1-for-13 (.077), Brock Holt 2-for-13 (.154), Xander Bogaerts 6-for-28 (.214) and Eduardo Nunez 3-for-14 (.214).The current Blue Jays are hitting a cumulative .238 (43-for-181) against Price. Devon Travis is 7-for-16 (.438) with a home run and Teoscar Hernandez 3-for-10 (.300) with a homer against him. But Kevin Pillar is 3-for-22 (.136) with a homer, Russell Martin 5-for-32 (.156), Yangeris Solarte 3-for-16 (.188) and Justin Smoak 4-for-20 (.200) with a home run.The plan for Sale is to have him pitch three innings as an “opener” against the New York Mets Sunday, then work again in Cleveland the following weekend and likely one more time before the playoffs.“Good, really good,” Sale said when asked how he felt. “A little erratic, obviously (he hit Kendrys Morales), drove my pitch count up a little bit which is why I didn’t to go out for my second or third inning, but got some good work in and move on from there.”The Blue Jays had a 2-0 lead behind rookie left-hander Ryan Borucki until the seventh inning — the Red Sox scoring four in the seventh and three in in the eighth to notch their 99th win and clinch the playoff spot.Sale only pitched a one inning, but that gave Borucki a chance to pitch against one of his idols.“I grew up watching (Sale) with the White Sox and, for me, I was the same kind of pitcher — I was really tall and skinny like how he was … and just kind of slung it, didn’t really have much mechanical work going,” Borucki http://www.marinersfanproshop.com/authentic-edgar-martinez-jersey , an Illinois native, said. “Really just trying to go out there and throw, and that’s what I did.”Manager John Gibbons said before the game that Marcus Stroman’s dreadful year — 4-9, 5.54 ERA in 19 starts — could be over because of a blister.“You won’t see him probably pitch, I wouldn’t think,” Gibbons said. “But he might. He’s getting a little far removed from last time, when he went on the DL with it. He threw a side (session), pitched a game and it’s almost a month now. Now he’s going to have to build back up, and I don’t know how smart that would be. For what?”The Jays placed Russell Martin on the paternity list prior to the game. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Blake Snell didn’t stick around long enough to win his 10th straight start, but the Tampa Bay Rays left-hander felt he solidified his chances for the Cy Young Award in his final appearance.The Rays beat the Toronto Blue Jays 4-3 on Saturday night.“I feel like I have a pretty good case,” said Snell, who leads the American League in wins (21) and ERA (1.89). “They’re going to pick who they pick. I don’t have a say, but the work that I did put together, it’s a great case to have.”Snell gave up a run in the first inning and left after five with the score tied at 1. He gave up three hits and four walks (three in the first inning) and struck out 10.“Three walks in the first inning, that’s rough,” he said. “I’ve got to be in the zone more Ryon Healy Jersey , but in between that was very good. I’m happy the way the season ended.”Snell, whose last loss came on July 12, finished with a 21-5 record. In 14 starts at home, he never gave up more than two runs and finished with an ERA of 1.27. He was trying to become the first pitcher to win 10 straight starts within a season since Justin Verlander with Detroit in 2011.The last 10 pitchers to lead the American League in wins and ERA won the Cy Young Award, and Rays manager Kevin Cash thinks Snell will make it 11.“There’s really not much debate, in my opinion,” Cash said.Diego Castillo (4-2) got the win with two innings of relief. Sergio Romo pitched the ninth for his 25th save despite giving up a pinch-hit homer to Reese McGuire.C.J. Cron’s 30th homer got Tampa Bay on the board in the second against Toronto starter Ryan Borucki (4-6), and Austin Meadows put the Rays ahead for the first time with another homer off Borucki in the seventh.It was the sixth homer of the season and the first as a Ray for Meadows, who was acquired along with pitcher Tyler Glasnow in the July 31 trade that sent pitcher Chris Archer to Pittsburgh.Jon Berti led off the game with an infield single, stole second and scored the run off Snell on Rowdy Tellez’s sacrifice fly.With Snell out of the game, Teoscar Hernandez hit his 22nd home run off Castillo to put the Blue Jays up 2-1.Tommy Pham led off the Tampa Bay sixth with a single, extending to 31 his streak of games in which he has reached base safely, the longest active streak in the majors. He scored on Brandon Lowe’s two-out single, tying it at 2 in the sixth.Borucki gave up four runs on seven hits in 6 2/3 innings, and finished September 1-3 despite a 2.65 ERA over 34 innings.“It was just good to prove myself and get that confidence that I can get these guys out, these hitters out,” said the rookie left-hander. “For so long you think these guys are invincible and they never get out http://www.marinersfanproshop.com/authentic-dee-gordon-jersey , but just being up here and just really proving to myself I can do this is definitely a confidence boost going into ’19.”RUSSELL’S REIGNBlue Jays manager John Gibbons has decided to let 35-year-old catcher Russell Martin manage the team in Sunday’s regular-season finale. “I’m having a little fun with it,” Gibbons said. “Let him see how tough it is.”Martin hasn’t played since Sept. 3 because Toronto is looking at younger catchers.The team announced Wednesday that Gibbons will not return as manager next season.TRAINER’S ROOMBlue Jays: RHP Marco Estrada, bothered by lower back soreness, will not make his final scheduled start Sunday. “We talked about it,” Estrada said. “Obviously, I’ve been feeling some stuff, so they kind of figured what’s the point. Done enough, let’s just rest now.” Estrada, 7-14 with a 5.64 ERA in 28 starts in what could be his last year with Toronto, becomes a free agent after the season.UP NEXTRHP Sam Gaviglio (3-9) will make his 24th start for the Blue Jays, his fourth against the Rays, in Sunday’s season finale. The Rays will finish with a “bullpen day,” starting with RHP Ryne Stanek (2-3).