Friday, April 24, 2009

Jays power tonight with great pitching win this one

Toronto v Chicago in Chicago.
Lineups: Toronto: Scutaro, Hill, Rios, Wells, Lind, Rolen, Overbay, Barajas, Snider and Tallet pitching.
Chicago: Getz, Fields, Quentin, Thome, Dye, Konerko, Pierzynski, Ramirez, Anderson and Floyd pitching.

Battle of division leaders. It will be a tough series for Jays, White Sox have a good team and have similar start to the Jays but are at home and outdoors which Jays have not had for most of April. And Jays pitching staff badly beaten up right now. Cito will be hoping for continued run support this weekend.

The very good: Tallet, Lind three doubles, Wells 3-4 single, double and triple.
The good: The rest of the Jays lineup a collective gold star tonight. Three stolen bases. If this is a change by Cito I am all in favour. Rios and Wells should be going far more. The bench Johnny Mc defence and Bautista home run.
The bad: The wind swirling around all night.

Jays win 14-0 on a 21 hit attack but only one home run ! Aided by two werrors and some sloppy fielding and pitching.

Top 1st: It is very windy out here tonight, will be interesting to see how this affects the game. Scutaro full count and walks. Hill at bat grounds to short safe at first on fielding error by shortstop Ramirez, Scutaro to third.
Rios strikes out one down. Wells doubles to centre, Scutaro and Hill both score and Jays take early lead here 2-0 Jays. Lind at bat Vernon stealing third. Lind doubles to right Vernon scores and Jays are running 3-0 Jays. Rolen with Lind at second strikes out. Overbay with two down and one on lines out to Dye in right field. But Jays draw first blood.

Bottom 1st: Getz singles to left. Fields strikes out.Quentin strikes out. Thome grounds to Hill throw to Overbay for third out.

Top 2nd: Barajas singles to centre. Snider strikes out. Scutaro singles to left, Barajas to second.
Hill grounds to shortstop Ramirez on to Getz and Konerko, double play ball.
Bottom 2nd: Dye strikes out. Konerko fly ball to Wells. Pierzynski two down and walks. Ramirez fly ball out to Snider in left.

Top 3rd: Rios doubles to left. Alex has really come alive this week, great to see after such a long drought. Wells strikes out. Lind at bat Rios stealing third. Jays are running tonight. Good to see that as well. Lind grounds to Konerko for the out. Overbay at bat with Alex at third, intentional walk. Barajas grounds to Ramirez throw to second to get Overbay.
Bottom 3rd: Anderson doubles to right, Getz singles to right, two on for Fields no outs. Strikes him out. Quentin with two on Anderson at third. Full count walks him and loads bases for Thome, very nice Brian, strikes him out on three pitches. Two down for Dye grounds to Hill throw to Overbay for the third out. Excellent pitching, that could have been very nasty.

Top 4th: Snider strikes out for second time tonight. Scutaro singles up the middle, third time on base tonight, two hits and a walk. Hill hitless tonight but reached on the error in the first and scored, showing bunt, now lines into left and Quentin good sliding catch. Rios 1-2, double last at bat, Scutaro running but ball four. Two on two down for Wells. 3-0 count, full count, walks on high pitch and loads the bases for Lind. Egbert up in bullpen. Lind grounds to Getz at second throw to Konerko at first for the out. Missed opportunity there to blow this one open.
Bottom 4th: Konerko grounds hard to Rolen, throw to Overbay for first out. Pierzynski, grounds down to Overbay, backhand stop and throw to Tallet for second out. Ramirez lines it to left centre, Anderson long fly ball to Wells, no damage done.

Top 5th: Rolen at bat doubles to centre, off glove of Anderson, error on play, now a wild pitch and Rolen moves to third. Overbay grounds to Ramirez throw to first for the out. Rolen has to hold. Barajas 1-2 tonight. 3-1 count. Another wild pitch and in comes Rolen to score run number five. Also ball four Barajas at first. Error and two wild pitches, that’s ok. 5-0 Jays. Snider now and one down singles to right, his first hit tonight. Here comes manager Guillen, that’s it for Floyd 97 pitches. Egbert pitching two on and one down. Scutaro 2-2 and a walk grounds back to Egbert throw to second but Ramirez is disrupted by Snider sliding in and drops ball. Scutaro safe at first Barajas at third. Hill high chopper off the mound and Ramirez unable to get to it cleanly, Barajas scores. 6-0 Jays. Scutaro moves to second. Rios at bat with two on and two down. Full count grounds to pitcher and throw to Konerko for third out. But this inning Jays make White Sox pay for wild pitches, the error and sloppy fielding. Bottom 5th: Tallet still out there Getz at bat pops it up, Scutaro settles under but this wind blows it to Rolen. One down. Fields at bat, pops it up to right to Rios, two down. Quentin at bat grounds to Rolen throw to Overbay. Another good tight inning for Tallet. 77 pitches.

Top 6th: Wells singles into right centre, Lind is he bunting ? no, doubles into left field corner, Vernon to third. No outs and two in scoring position for Rolen, 2-3 tonight. Grounds to third, throw to first no chance for Vernon to score. One down for Overbay. Intentional walk to load them up, set up double play and get to Barajas. Show them Rod. Singles through the infield into shallow left, Vernon scores 7-0 Jays and bases still loaded. Snider singles into right 8-0 Jays. Bases still loaded with one out. Scutaro at bat grounds to Ramirez short drops the ball and Overbay scores 9-0 Jays. Hill with bases loaded. This one down the right field line into corner. Barasa and Snider score 11-0 Jays. Rios now with two in scoring position. High fly ball to centre Scutaro tags and scores 12-0 Jays. Hill at third for Wells with two down, grounds to Ramirez throw to Konerko for third out. Crowd sarcastic cheers. Jays bat around and score six in the process.
Bottom 6th: Tallet has been sitting a long time. Bautista now at third, McDonald at short. playing shift on Thome. Murphy in bullpen. Thome walks. Lillibridge pinch hitting for Dye fly ball to Lind in left. One down. Konerko lines out into centre to Wells two down. That’s it for Tallet 92 pitches. Bill Murphy pitching, Pierzynski at bat with two down and one on at first grounds it up the middle but Johnny Mc. is there to show his usual great play and get Thome at second. He makes it look so easy. Great play saves a base hit.

Top 7th: Clayton Richard pitching Lind at bat, 2-4 tonight. another double down the line into left field corner, his third tonight. Bautista grounds it to second Lind to third for Overbay. The only Jay without a hit. Not this time either, bounces one back to Richard throw to first for the second out. Barajas doubles off the wall in left centre, just missed going out. Lind scores 13-0 Jays. Snider 2-4 full count and walks. Two on and two down for Johnny Mc. Grounds to third, throw to first for third out. 18 hits tonight for the Jays.
Bottom 7th: Ramirez 3-0 count and walks on four pitches, Cito will not like that. Anderson 3-0 count again grounds to Bautista throw to Overbay one down. Ramirez to second. Getz, grounds to Overbay throw to Murphy for second out, Ramirez to third. Fields grounds to Overbay throw to Murphy for third out.

Top 8th: Hill fly ball to Quentin in left for first out. Rios fly ball to Anderson now playing in right two down. Wells lines it into left under the glove of Quentin, trying to make a diving play and Vernon has a triple. Lind with two down grounds to Konerko at first. No damage done.
Bottom 8th: Murphy still out there, Owens walks. Thome strikes out. One down. Lillibridge strikes out. Konerko full count, walks. Two on two down for Corky Miller pinch hitting for Pierzynski, wild pitch and both runners move up. Lines it vey hard down the third base line Bautista great catch diving to his right. Jays have had excellent defence tonight.

Top 9th: Bautista this one has gone, home run into left field 14-0 Jays 20 hit attack but first home run tonight. Overbay grounds it to Getz throw to first for the out. Barajas strikes out looking. Two down for Snider singles first pitch up the middle. Third hit tonight. McDonald fly ball out to right.
Bottom 9th: Bryan Bullington pitching, his Jays debut. Called up from AAAVegas to replace BJ Ryan on roster. Ramirez strikes out. Anderson full count. Loops one into shallow right. One on one down for top of White Sox order. Getz fly ball to Snider in left. Two down for Fields. Singles to Wells in centre. Two on two down. Ramirez at second, Owens at bat, full count, and walks him. Bases loaded for Thome, this should be interesting. Not quite the guy you want to see in this situation strikes him out. Great pitching Bryan. Bullington has great movement on ball and works very fast.

Jays win 14-0. No contest tonight. Jays 21 hit attack. Boston comes from 4-2 down to beat Yankees in bottom of eleventh at Fenway to stay two behind Jays.

The Toronto Blue Jays called up Burres on Friday from Triple-A Las Vegas to start on Saturday. That's a tough assignment.

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