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Tour wins (three) this season, but this is his firs

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TORONTO -- The youngsters are getting a shot with the Toronto Blue Jays now that the last-place team is essentially focused on next season. Wholesale Shoes USA . Players like Ryan Goins, Anthony Gose and Moises Sierra showed what they could do in Wednesdays 7-2 victory over the New York Yankees. Goins scored twice and made a key defensive play, Sierra had two of Torontos 10 hits and Gose made a highlight-reel catch in shallow centre field. "This is their opportunity," said Jays manager John Gibbons. "They bring a lot of energy to the field, a lot of intensity. Its fun to watch them play." Toronto (60-74) jumped out to an early four-run lead and Edwin Encarnacion made it a 6-0 game in the second inning with a two-run homer. Starter Todd Redmond (2-2) was effective over 5 2-3 innings as the Blue Jays won the rubber match of the three-game series in front of 36,565 fans at Rogers Centre. New York (70-63) fell 5 1/2 games back in the wild-card race and 8 1/2 games behind first-place Boston in the American League East. "Any loss at this point in the season is rough on us," said Yankees catcher Chris Stewart. "Time is ticking away and we dont really have much room for error." It was Torontos first series win of the season against the Yankees. Redmond said team defence was a big factor. "You have to give it up to those guys," he said. "The ball is smoked down the line and Edwin made a diving play, Gose running in and making a diving play and Brett (Lawrie) with that (catch off a) line drive. "Great plays all around. I have to take my hat off to those guys." Goins has hit safely in his first six major-league games and boasts an impressive .455 batting average. He showed off his arm in the fourth inning with a perfect throw from shallow right field to catch Alex Rodriguez at the plate. Gibbons likes what he has seen from the rookie, who spent most of the season at triple-A Buffalo. "You name it -- defence, offence, and hes in tune with things," Gibbons said. "He doesnt look in awe, you know." Gose showed his range in the fifth inning by sprinting into shallow centre field to make a tremendous diving catch that robbed Stewart of a base hit. "He can flat out play centre field with anybody," Gibbons said. "Hes like anybody else, he was here last year but hes still feeling his way around, trying to establish himself. Hes doing some nice jobs for us." The Blue Jays batted around in the first inning against New York starter Hiroki Kuroda (11-10). Goins got things started with a double and Adam Lind reached on a walk. Lawrie, from Langley, B.C., drove them both in with a two-out double to the left-centre field gap. After Rajai Davis was hit by a pitch, J.P. Arencibia struck out but ran to first base when Stewart gave up a passed ball. Stewarts throw to first was wide and ended up rolling into foul territory, allowing Lawrie and Davis to score on the error. Goins singled in the second inning and Encarnacion followed with his 34th home run of the season, a rainbow shot that left him one RBI short of the 100 plateau. Arencibia made it 7-0 an inning later when he scored on a sacrifice fly by Jose Reyes. Redmond rolled through the first three innings but gave up a pair of runs in the fourth. After walking Curtis Granderson and Alfonso Soriano, Rodriguez hit an RBI single to left field that put the Yankees on the board. Soriano moved to third and scored when Mark Reynolds doubled off the wall in right-centre field. Sierra made a valiant effort by jumping against the wall but couldnt make the catch. Gose backed him up nicely, gathered the ball and threw it to Goins, who fired a strike to Arencibia to get Rodriguez at the plate as the crowd roared its approval. Redmond gave up three hits, two earned runs, four walks and struck out seven. Kuroda allowed five earned runs and nine hits over five innings of work. He walked a batter and had four strikeouts. New York had only five hits in the game. Notes: New York second baseman Robinson Cano took the night off after being hit in the left hand by a pitch on Tuesday. Hes listed as day-to-day. ... The Rogers Centre roof was closed at the start of the game but was opened in the second inning. ... The Blue Jays will get a day off Thursday. They will close out their six-game homestand with a three-game series against the Kansas City Royals beginning Friday night. Toronto left-hander Mark Buehrle (10-7) is scheduled to start against right-hander Ervin Santana (8-7). ... The Yankees are also off Thursday. They will begin a 10-game homestand against the Baltimore Orioles on Friday. Air Max 270 Sale . It looked like being another miserable day for Moyes when Ashley Westwood put Villa in front from a 13th-minute free kick. But Rooney headed United level seven minutes later, and the striker netted his 16th of the season for the struggling champions from the penalty spot before halftime. Air Max Tailwind Sale . THE MICHAEL JORDAN FLU GAME First this famous basketball moment. The story goes like this. “Game 5, known as "The Flu Game", was one of Michael Jordans most memorable. https://www.wholesaleshoesforcheap.com/air-max-2007-sale/ . The Padres made the moves before Fridays game at Washington. They promoted infielder Jace Peterson from Double-A San Antonio and right-hander Kevin Quackenbush from Triple-A El Paso.AUGUSTA, Ga. -- The Masters is underway with three shots right down the middle of the fairway. Just not terribly far. Arnold Palmer, Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus hit the ceremonial tee shots Thursday morning with fans already lining both sides of the first fairway. Still competitive even after all these years, Nicklaus went last and hit a drive that went about a yard past Players shot. The "Big Three" combined to win 13 green jackets, including seven in a row at the start of the 1960s. This Masters is far less predictable. Without Tiger Woods or a dominant figure, its seen as the most wide-open Masters in years. A bunch of brash Augusta rookies are eager to fill Woods shoes. And the last two dozen majors have been divvied up among 21 winners. Early Thursday, Stewart Cink, Ian Woosnam and Jonas Blixt were all 1-under-par, leading among the early starters. Ryan Moore, who won the Par 3 contest Wednesday, thinks it might be time to break the curse of that winner never winning the tournament. "You never know," he said. "Someone has got to break that (Par 3) curse at some point in time, so hopefully its me. Who knows? I might go shoot 8 under or something, make a couple of hole-in-ones." As unlikely as that sounds, pretty much everything else is up for grabs at this Masters. Recovering from back surgery, Woods is sitting out the opening major of the year for the first time since turning pro. Even as his dominance waned in recent years, he was always the clear-cut favourite coming into Augusta, where he has won four times. Now, as Moore said, who knows? Jason Day, Sergio Garcia and former Masters champion Zach Johnson are the only players from the top 10 who have won anywhere in the world this year. Only one of the past seven winners on the PGA Tour was ranked in the top 75. "I think if youre outside the top 50 in the world this week, youve got a great chance," U.S. Open champion Justin Rose said with a laugh. Woods is out of golf until the summer, but the show goes on at a tournament that rarely fails to deliver plenty of drama. "We miss Tiger, as does the entire golf world," Masters chairman Billy Payne said. "Nevertheless, this is the Masters. This is what we hope is the best tournament in the world, one of the greatest sporting events. Air Jordan 20 Sale. And I think we will have a very impressive audience and have another great champion to crown this year." That could be Phil Mickelson, who last year won the British Open at age 42 and now has a chance to join Woods and Arnold Palmer with a fourth green jacket. It could be Adam Scott, trying to take over as the worlds No. 1 player and join Woods, Nick Faldo and Jack Nicklaus as the only back-to-back winners. While Woods last won a green jacket in 2005, he had finished out of the top six only once since then. Thats what made him such a compelling figure at Augusta. He always seemed to be there. "Its a huge loss," Scott said. "But, as every year here, this event produces something special no matter what. It just has a way of doing it. Its not going to involve Tiger this year, but it will involve someone else and it will be a memorable event anyway." Rose falls on the side of experience -- knowing where to miss, knowing where you cant afford to miss, where the hole locations tend to be on the contoured greens and using the slope to get the ball close. "Always you can have the unknowns," he said. "But I would say 15 guys are pretty strong favourites." Fuzzy Zoeller was the last Augusta rookie to claim the green jacket in 1979, and the only other ones to do it were the first two: Horton Smith and Gene Sarazen. Then again, there are 24 first-timers in the 98-player field, a record (except for the first tournament), and none of them will concede an insurmountable learning curve. Besides, no one is dominating golf at the moment. Jimmy Walker has the most PGA Tour wins (three) this season, but this is his first Masters. Scott had a chance to go to No. 1 three weeks ago at Bay Hill, but he lost a three-shot lead in the final round to Matt Every, who had never won in his career. "Doesnt matter if youve played here once or if youve played here 50 times," said Patrick Reed, who has won three times in the past eight months. "When it comes down to it, its just going to be that whoever is playing the best is going to walk away with the trophy." Who knows? Maybe it will be Moore. Hes certainly not fretting over a supposed curse. "Im not afraid of it," he said. ' ' '

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