Same old, same old. Jays lose season high number seven

Saturday June 21,2008.

Jays need to get going, one day, perhaps tonight will be the night.

Lineups: Toronto: Scutaro, Overbay, Rios, Wells, Rolen, Barajas, Mench, Eckstein, Litsch pitching and hitting.One change Ecksteinfor McDonld, the others all played so well.
Pittsburgh: Wilson, Sanchez, McLouth, Bay, LaRoche, Mientkiewicz, Bautista, Chavez and Maholm pitching and hitting.

The result: Jays lose this one 6-3 season high streak of seven losses.The new management is not doing much yet.

The good: Jays outhit a team. Nothing else good about this one.

The bad: Despite number of hits they still lose. Did not score until losing 4-0 and ame out of hand. The goat tonight was Barajas trying to score from 2B. Litsch also giving up all the runs to home runs. The second six pitch inning from Wells,Roln and Barajas. Another pitiful display all-round tonight.

Top 1st: Scutaro at bat grounds to Sanchez at 2B. Overbay grounds out to Wilson at SS. Rios grounds to Bautista at 3B. Thirteen scoreless innings for Jays and counting. Ten pitch inning.
Bottom 1st: Litsch pitching Wilson at bat grounds back to Litsch. One down. Sanchez fly ball to Rios two down. McLouth lines past Scutaro into right. Hits his glove but too hard to stop that one. Bay at bat there it goes. High fly ball into LF seats. 2-0 Pitsburgh. LaRoche pops up to Mench. But here we go again Jays have to play catch up. Twelve pitch inning.

Top 2nd: Wells at bat second pitch pops up to 1B LaRoche one down for Rolen fly ball to Mientkiewicz RF. Barajas at bat two quick outs fly ball to LF. Three up and down six pitches. Must be the new aggressive attacking play.
Bottom 2nd: Mientkiewicz strikes out. Bautista at bat one down, singles up the middle. Chavez with one on there it goes LF corner two run HR. 4-0 Pittsburgh. First home run of the season for Chavez. Maholm at bat full count. Grounds out to Overbay at 1B. Two down for top of order Wilson grounds out to Rolen at 3B. Thirty two pitches.

Top 3rd: Here come the hitters….. Mench grounds to SS. Eckstein full count Eckstein has had more itches than the previous inning three hitters combined. Now walks, great at bat for Eckstein. Litsch bunts get lead runner nothing going right fore this team Now Jesse has to stay out there although it probably will not be for long with hitters behind him. Scutaro now two outs, there we are second pitch flyball to RF. Jays still hitless now 15 innings and counting. Maholm thirty one pitches in three innings.
Bottom 3rd: Pittsburgh now with four hits so far. Sanchez grounds out to Eckstein. McLouth at bat fly ball caught right at the wall by Rios. Bay at bat grounds to Rolen at 3B. Three up and down two down. I think that was a six pitch inning! Pirates want to get out on the town. 43 count for Jesse.

Top 4th: Overbay at bat singles up the middle first hit tonight. Rios lines out to Sanchez. One down. Wells at bat, grounds to 3B get Overbay at 2B Wells safe at 1B. Rolen with two down. Singles to Right centre. Runners at 1B and 2B. Two down for Barajas singles down line LaRoche throw wild Overbay scores 4-1. Rolen to 3B on throw on throw and error. Mench at bat Barajas at 1B and Rolen at 3B. 3-0 count. Walks to load bases now for Eckstein. David remember the grand slam in Bradenton against these Pirates…
Not this time for Eckstein grounds back to Maholm. Jays show some signs of life first run in sixteen innings but they will take it. Could have and should have been a few more but this is Toronto. Commentators are imploring fans to vote for Jays in All-Star ballot. I don’t think so. Wells, Rios, Rolen ????
Bottom 4th: Jesse you have to hold them here. LaRoche fly ball to Wells in CF. Mientkiewicz, walks not good Jesse. Bautista at bat, there it goes LF corner. Two run HR. 6-1. Take pity Pirates please. This team is in intensive care unit. Chavez pop up to Scutaro. Maholm at bat grounds to Scutaro. Jesse had to hold them this inning and could not.

Top 5th: As ever back to the bats, what do they have? Will Litsch lead off ? Yes and grounds out to 3B.. Scutaro now full count. Singles to LF. Will he steal ? and get something going here ? No he doesn’t not even a throw over.Overbay grounds to 1B double play. What can one say? This team is SO bad right now they would have trouble against their own AA team.
Bottom 5th: Litsch still in there. Wilson at bat grounds out to Scutaro. Sanchez grounds out to Overbay. McLouth at bat, here comes the rain, crowd is scrambling for cover. McLouth pops out to Scutaro. Jays may get a break here, saved by the rain.

Top 6th: Pittsburgh will want to get this one in quick. Rios at bat grounds to SS. Wells at bat singles to LF. Rolen 3-0 count. Walks. Two on one down. Barajas doubles into RF corner. Two runs score 6-3. Mench at bat. Fly ball to CF. Two down. Eckstein at bat Wilkerson on deck circle to pinch hit for Litsch. Singles to right, Barajas being sent that is SO insane, every Jays fan in N. America knows that is suicide. I think third base coach may need some coaching. That should have been two runners on and Wilkerson at bat. 90 pitches for Maholm now.
Bottom 6th: Litsch still pitching, Bay at bat strikes out. LaRoche, hard line out to Scutaro. Two down. Mientkiewicz grounds out to Rolen. 79 pitches for Litsch. Both Boston and Yankees have already lost today.

Top 7th: Wilkerson bunting first pitch foul, now grounds out to 1B LaRoche. Scutaro at bat, grounds to Sanchez, two down. Overbay at bat strikes out.
Bottom 7th: Bautista at bat, Camp now pitching. He pitched against Pirates in the Spring. Single to shallow LF. Chavez at bat grounds to Eckstein double play ball. They need that. Chris Gomez pinch hitting for Mohalm grounds first pitch to Scutaro. Camp gets out of trouble.

Top 8th: Jays running out of at bats. Baltimore and Tampa losing at this time. Looks like the whole division could lose tonight. Grabow now pitching Rios at bat. Grounds weakly to SS. Infield single to 3B, Wells good speed down the line beats the throw. Rolen now pops up to 2B. Barajas 2-3 tonight but dumb running play last at bat. Grounds to 1B.
Bottom 8th: Tampa has just loaded bases bottom of the ninth and no outs losing 2-3. Camp pitching Wilson first pitch ground ball to Eckstein. Crowd has emptied out with the storm clouds and heavy rain about. Sanchez breaks bat ground out to Rolen. Two down. McLouth grounds first pitch to Scutaro. Three up and down but Pirates want home. Tampa has won 4-3.

Top 9th: Last chance for Jays but they are very flat tonight, no spark at all in any of them. They seem to be going through the motions, at least in Milwaukee they were trying. Matt Capps to finish them off. Inglett pinch hitting for Mench. Full count. Hard line out to CF. Eckstein at bat grounds to 3B. Zaun now pinch hitting with two down. Fly ball to RF. That’s the game. Awful.