SEATTLE - Given his druthers, Aaron Sanchez probably would rather be in the Blue Jays starting rotation, but he is completely on board with the plan to use him as a late-innings reliever.
On his first day back, he earned the win by pitching the bottom of the eighth, with his fastball touching 99 m.p.h.
Manager John Gibbons loved the way his new-look bullpen got the job done.
"I love the way it turned out and really liked the way it looked," he said. "If (in the ninth) we had added on some more runs, (Bo) Schultz was ready to come in.