Jays power to win tonight with 19 hits and two Snider home runs.

Toronto v Minnesota

Jays fight back in this one to win 8-6 behind hits galore (19) and good reliefe pitching and BJ's save.

Lineups: Toronto: Same lineup for Cito. Scutaro, Hill, Rios, Wells, Lind, Rolen, Overbay, Barajas, Snider and Litsch pitching.
Minnesota: Span, Casilla, Morneau, Kubel, Cuddyer, Buscher, Young, Morales, Punto and Slowey pitching.

The very good: Snider two home runs tonight. Rolen 3-4. Hill 3-4 and stolen base. Rios three hits. Lind two doubles. Multiple hit game by five Jays and 3 hits for Hill. BUT also BJ Ryan throwing nothing but strikes and saving this one.
The good: Overbay gets his home run with that sweet “doubles” swing to centre.
The bad: Losing Litsch to injury in the fourth. Sloppy play in first two innings. Wells in first two at bats looks like a Double AA rookie. Overbay sloppy base running. Lind base error. Alex in the field.

Top 1st: Scutaro at bat flies out to center fielder Span. Hill singles to centre field. Rios at bat with one on singles to centre field Hill moves to second. Wells now with two on grounds to third into yet another double play. How many is that this season?
Bottom 1st: Span grounds to Scutaro. Casilla strikes out. Morneau strikes out.

Top 2nd: Lind doubles to left. Rolen bounces one to SS throw too late to get Rolen at first, two on and Lind at third. Overbay grounds out to first, throw to third catches Lind diving back in double play, rookie error there. Rolen at second two down. Barajas lifts one into shallow right and Rolen scores, 1-0 Jays. Snider pops up to third. Sloppy play so far for Jays, five hits and only one run. Not good.
Bottom 2nd: Kubel gets hold of this one, right centre seats and Twins have tied this one up. 1-1. Cuddyer singles to centre. Litsch not sharp at all. Buscher at bat strikes out, Cuddyer stealing and Barajas throw gets him. Double play. Two down for Young, singles to centre, Litsch not fooling anyone tonight so far. Morales at bat singles the other way. Young all the way to third and Morales goes to second on the throw. Punto singles into centre, two runs score 3-1 Twins and Litsch is all over the place, and his pitch count is already getting high. Top of the order again Span at bat, flies out to Snider but terrible inning by Litsch you can’t let bottom of the order dominate like this. 38 pitches for Litsch.

Top 3rd: Scutaro first pitch swinging fly ball out to right not the way to get back into this one. One down. Hill at bat, singles up the middle his second hit. Rios fly ball to centre field two down. Wells has to make up for that poor at bat in the first. Two down one on. Hills stealing second and safe. Wells takes a rash swing at ball way out of the zone and pops up to Morneau. Wells has a long way to go to show any leadership on this team right now.
Bottom 3rd: Casilla at bat pops it up to Morneau. Morneau at bat pops it up to Rolen, two down. grounds back to Litsch, throw to Overbay for third out. Nine pitch inning. That’s better Jesse. Yankees losing 10-1…..to Tampa.

Top 4th: Now can the hitters get it together here. Lind at bat. doubles off the wall in right field and just beats the throw, that was close. Great throw by Cuddyer. Rolen now with Lind in scoring position. Pops up to first. Overbay singles to right centre, Lind scores but Overbay caught between bases. Sloppy base running Lyle. 3-2 Twins. Barajas at bat strikes out. This game could and should be a very different score.
Bottom 4th: Cuddyer first pitch swing and doubles off right field wall, Alex gets a glove on it but cannot hold it. Buscher exactly the same play, Rios had a chance but cannot catch it off his glove, looks like in and out of his glove and Cuddyer scores easily and Buscher with a triple 4-2 Twins. They have come out swinging tonight and Jesse is not fooling many. Trainer is out. Litsch is injured and is out of here. Tallet in to pitch. Not good to see Litsch go out like that. Young strikes out one down. Morales at bat, lines right at Scutaro two down. Punto at bat and strikes out. Tallet excellent relief here with runner on third and no outs. Perhaps Jays can settle down now and hope that Litsch does not have long term injury.

Top 5th: Snider at bat, gets hold of this one bigtime. Snider does it again HR 4-3 Twins. Scutaro at bat grounds to second. Hill 2-2 tonight. Singles into left centre, hot Aaron tonight. Rios now chance to atone for two missed catches, singles into right. Wells now also chance to make up for his 0-2 tonight. Pops out to Punto at short, 0-3 Vernon.Two on and one out. Lind strikes out.
Bottom 5th: Span walks. Casilla bunting .Span to second. Morneau doubles to right, Span holds at third. Kubel grounds to Overbay throw home but Span safe 5-3 Twins. Morneau to third. Cuddyer sac fly to Wells Morneau scores. 6-3 Twins. Buscher walks, Kubel to second. Young fly ball to Rios.

Top 6th: Rolen singles into right, Overbay gets hold of this one, line drive into centre field over the low fence, furthest part of the stadium, two run home run. Nice swing Lyle. That’s much more like it. 6-5 Twins. Jays have 13 hits. Barajas at bat grounds hard to short stop. Snider walks, that’s it for Slowey. Guerrier pitching. Scutaro at bat. hitless tonight Snider stealing and safe at second. Scutaro and Wells are the only Jays without a hit tonight.Scutareo walks. Two one one down for Hill 3 hits tonight. Not this time Aaron, grounds to Short double play ball to end the inning but Jays get two back.
Bottom 6th: Strained right forearm for Jesse Litsch, not good. Morales leadoff grounds to Rolen. Punto at bat, pops up to Overbay. Span at bat, two down. Frasor in bullpen. Doubles into right corner. Span can really run. Casilla at bat two down. Span stealing third and wild pitch but no chance for Span to come all the way. Pops it up to Scutaro. No damage done this inning.

Top 7th: Rios now two hit night but not a happy night in the outfield. Alex gets under two but high fouls down left field seats and strikes out. Now Vernon, hitless tonight. 0-3 and long long overdue to get it going. There she goes, single into centre, better than a strikeout Vernon. That’s it for Guerrier. . Rays pounding the Yankees 15-3. Pena with six rbis so far…. Breslow now pitching to Lind. One on one down. Lind 2-3. Wells stealing and Lind strikes out.That’s it for Breslow. Pitching Rolen at bat with Vernon in scoring position. Humber now pitching Rolen singles up the middle and Vernon all the way round to score and tie this one up 6-6. That stolen base pays off. Overbay at bat bounces first pitch to second.
Bottom 7th: Frasor now for an inning, what game has he brought tonight? Morneau at bat gets great swing on this one but fly ball to Rios at the wall in right. One down. Kubel at bat, singles to centre. Cuddyer at bat one on one down. grounds hard to Hill on to Scutaro back to Overbay double play ball.Perfect.

Top 8th: Can Jays put this one away? Ayala pitching. Bottom of the order. Barajas doubles into the gap in right. Snider now. Johnny Mc. pinch running for Barajas. Oh Wow… Travis gets hold of this one, no doubt about this a bullet off his bat into second deck two run home run and Jays go ahead 8-6. His second of the night, not bad for a number nine hitter, Jays 17 hits. Scutaro fly ball to right field. Hill 3-4 tonight. Strikes out this time. Rios now. Only Alex and Barajas of the regulars without home run this season. Singles into right for his third hit tonight. Vernon now and that’s it for Ayala. Dickey now pitching knuckle ball pitcher. This should be interesting. Vernon grounds to short but beats out the throw. Two on two down for Lind, I wonder if he has faced a knuckleball …. Ball gets away here Alex and Vernon advance. Base hit will do it Adam. No grounds to second. Here comes Scott Downs to hold them. Will we see BJ in the ninth ? Cito says yes… yesterday.
Bottom 8th: Downs pitching. Barrrett catching. Harris pinch hitter. Doubles over Alex’s head in right. Young at bat. Wild pitch and Harris at third. Strikes out, one down one on for pinch hitter Joe Crede strikes out. Punto at bat, bunting but foul. Strikes him out and the side with runner at third and no outs, That is clutch pitching friends but it ain’t over yet.

Top 9th: Can Jays add to that two run lead and give BJ some room here? Redmond now catching. Rolen at bat. Dickey still pitching. Rolen strikes out. Overbay grounds to short. Two down. Barrett at bat grounds to second.
Bottom 9th: Here comes BJ and has the top of the order to face. Get the heart pills ready friends. This could be rough. Span at bat, singles to left on a 0-2 count. Casilla grounds to Scutaro to Hill on to Overbay, double play, perfect. Morneau singles up the middle on a 0-2 count. Kubel first pitch pops it up to Hill. Jays win this one and BJ is back. Gets his save out of this one. Put the heart pills away for tonight at least.

Frasor gets the win. BJ his first save.

Yankees have lost 15-5 in Tampa/ Nick Swisher pitched the eighth, the first Yankees positon player to pitch in almost a decade.. Baltimore win a close one in Texas and Boston losing 5-1 in Oakland. Jays remain division leaders.