Burnett and Jays win suspended game

Game three continues from last night susspensionwith Jays ahead 2-1..

Top 7th: Lind singles, McDonald bunts Lind to 2B. Inglett at bat full count. Strikes out two down. Scutaro at bat. Grounds to 3B hits bag and Mora saves run and throw to 1B not on time. Scutaro safe and Lind at 3B for Rios now. Alex swing and misses, takes one that was down the middle swings at the next and now two strikes, yes you got it pitch down and away and strikes out. My dog could get that guy out. Either his head is totally messed up with the coaching changes or he is just terrible. He was bad before so it cannot be the coaching staff. Leaves Lind at 3B.
Bottom 7th: Camp pitching three up and down inning.

Top 8th: Cormier pitching Overbay leadoff double into LF corner. Barajas can’t make up his mind to swing or not and with two strikes on him pops up to Millar, what a waste at bat. Stairs now intentional walk. Stairs is hardly a threat, they are playing percentages for Jays double play ball. Bierd now pitching Rolen at bat, two on and one down. Walks bases loaded. Patient Rolen here. Lind at bat, Grounds to Millar oh dear, throw to home is wild over catcher’s head two runs score. That was an easy out at plate. 4-1 Jays, still with one out two in scoring position, this could be the game friends. McDonald at bat, fly ball to LF corner, Rolen scores and Lind tags to 3B 5-1 nice hitting Johnny Mc. Inglett at bat, can he bring in Lind? Grounds it to Roberts throw to Millar gets Inglett, but error on Millar opens the gates for Jays.
Bottom 8th: Wilkerson in at RF, Downs pitching. Castro at bat. Singles into LF. Roberts at bat. singles to Rf. Two on and Downs does NOT look sharp here so far. Two on and no outs. Jones at bat can make it interesting with one swing. That’s much better, ground ball to Johnny Mc flip to Scutaro throw to Overbay, double play ball. Two down for Markakis with Castro now at 3B. 0-2 count now, grounds to Johnny Mc and throw to Overbay. Downs escapes further damage.

Top 9th: Jays would love to add a few here with top of the order at bat. Scutaro and Rios?/Wilkerson. Two down for Overbay 2-4 in this game. Continues by walking. Barajas at bat, hit on the upper arm, Stairs at bat, can he get hold of one and put this game away ? Strikes out and his woes continue.
Bottom 9th: Downs trying to finish this one off. Huff at bat, fouls it hard off his foot that hurts. He may not be hitting in the second game today. Strikes out. His mind was definitely on an ice pack. One down for Mora at bat grounds to Scutaro throw to Overbay and Orioles down to their last out. Scott at bat, pops it up to Barajas and this game is over.

Jays win huge here and a game that started at 7.05pm last night is just over at 1.25pm next day. BUT AJ Burnett is very happy with win number 11 and Jays take the win 5-1 as it means that they go one and half above Baltimore and even if they lose next game they will leave Baltimore ahead of the Orioles which was one of their goals. However they have a chance now to go one and half games up.

The very good: Burnett of course from last night. Today Overbay,Lind and McDonald get the gold stars.Along with the bullpen Campo and Downs to finish it off.

The bad. Rios and his bat. As I mentioned earier he is either totally confused now by the coaching staff on what to do with his swing or he is just awful.The at bat ion the seventh with Lind at 3B was one we have seen far too many times this season.Poor pitch selection, swings at the bad ones, head in the air, off the back foot, leaves the one pitch down the middle, and then strikes out on the third down and away.