Donaldson’s walk-off home run lifts Blue Jays
If this was, indeed, Mark Buehrle’s last career start at the Rogers Centre, he went out the way he has pitched his entire career. He threw strikes, he worked quickly, he pitched to contact, took some lumps, made some key pitches and, most importantly, gave his team a chance to win.
Which they did, in dramatic fashion.
Trailing by a run in the eighth inning, Kevin Pillar doubled home pinch runner Dalton Pompey to tie the game at 4-4 and then Josh Donaldson ended it with two outs in the bottom of the ninth with a walkoff home run, his 41st of the season, to left off Steve Geltz.
It appears that Buehrle’s storied career is winding down. While he is not talking publicly about his intentions, the word earlier this year was that he was planning either to retire or sign with his hometown St. Louis Cardinals or another midwest team. Right now the assumption is that he will retire because the second half has been such a struggle to get himself ready to pitch in between star.
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