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Santiago Casilla blows save, serving up two home runs

by Waleed Hawatky | Thu, Jul 27th 11:49am EDT

Santiago Casilla surrendered three runs on back -to-back home runs in the bottom of the ninth of the loss to the Blue Jays.

Fantasy Impact:

This outing pretty much sums up Casilla's miserable season as the A's closer as it was his sixth blown save of the year (among league leaders) and his fifth loss. Entering the game in the ninth nursing a 2-0 lead, Casilla wasted no time putting Josh Donaldson aboard with a free pass before serving up a three pitch bomb to Justin Smoak to tie the game up. The very next pitch got deposited in the right field bleachers by Kendrys Morales for the walk-off. The A's readily shipped back-end studs Ryan Madson and Sean Doolittle earlier in the month so rolling with the combustible, unreliable Casilla is to be expected but, for owners also turning to him for saves (undoubtedly only in the deepest formats around), it may not last much longer. Dragging a 4.66 ERA and a bloated 1.45 WHIP, Casilla is now 2-5 with 16 saves and 34 strikeouts in 36 2/3 innings.

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