Kansas use Jays for batting practise tonight.

Toronto v Kansas. Game three of four.


Lineups: Toronto: same as last night. Scutaro, Hill, Rios, Wells, Lind, Rolen, Overbay, Barajas, Snider and Tallet pitching.
Kansas: Crisp, Bloomquist, Teahen, Guillen, Butler, Jacobs, Callaspo, Aviles, Oilivo and Greinke pitching.

Big game tonight, Greinke yet to give up an earned run in four starts this season. Probably number one pitcher right now. Will be interesting to see what Jays can do against him.

Top 1st:Scutaro doubles to right. Hill strikes out. Rios strikes out, Wells singles to centre, Scutaro scores 1-0 Jays and there goes Greinke invincibility after 29 scoreless innings. Lind strikes out.
Bottom 1st: Crisp struck out, catcher Barajas to first baseman Overbay. Bloomquist fly ball to Rios. Two down for Teahen grounds to Overbay flip to Tallet for the out. Good first inning for Tallet.

Top 2nd: Rolen strikes out. Overbay fly ball to Crisp in centre.Barajas doubkes to left. Snidre fly ball to Bloomquist in left.
Bottom 2nd: Guillen grounds to Scutaro on to Overbay, one down. Butler at bat, gets hold of this one, over Vernon’s head into centre right seats HR his first of the season. 1-1. Jacobs with one out, full count and walks, Callaspo, one on one down. fly ball out to Rios. Two down. Aviles, at first, doubles to right, Alex misjudges this one and ball bounces away on his dive.. Off his glove. Jacobs to third. Olivo strikes out. No further damage from Alex’s miscue.

Top 3rd: Scutaro to lead off. 1-1 with his first inning double. Marco walks as he has been doing all month. Hill now with one on again, lifts this one into shallow centre, Scutaro all the way to third on the play nice base running. Runners at the corners and no outs for Rios. Gotta bring one in Alex, grounds to Teahen at third on to Callaspo at second on to Butler at first, double play ball but concede the run to Scutaro. 2-1 Jays. Wells at bat two down. Grounds to Teahen at third for the out but Jays get another off Greinke.
Bottom 3rd: Crisp doubles first pitch over head of Snider in left. Bloomquist bunting a beauty up the first base line and safe on Tallet’s throw to first. Two on and no outs for Teahen, first pitch pops it up to Rolen, one down and both runners hold. Guillen first pitch pops it up shallow to Scutaro, no chance for run. Two down. Butler lines it past Rolen into left field corner two runs score 3-2 Kansas. Rolen was not on the bag there. Here comes Cito, just strategy talk. Butler at second. Jacobs at bat, two down, 3-0 count. singles into left, Butler scores 4-2 Kansas. Callaspo with Jacobs at first. Singles into left over Rolen’s glove, the hot corner this inning. Runers at second anfd third for Aviles. Grounds to Hill also fumbles but recovers to throw out Aviles at first. But Jays are in a hole and hitters need to step it up to get back in this one and help Tallet out.

Top 4th: Lind and walks, good start. Rolen now takes ball one, he is listening, last game he swung in that situation. Long fly ball out to left.Overbay grounds to third, throw to second Lind out but throw no in time to get Overbay at first. Barajas with two down. pops it up to short. Not a good inning for the hitters.
Bottom 4th: Olivo lines to Scutaro nice leaping catch. One down for Crisp. His third at bat and only the fourth inning. Grounds to Rolen, no mistake this time and throw to Overbay for second out. Bloomquist 1-2 tonight, full count and walks. Teahen this one is out of here, home run to centre, two more runs. And Kansas up 6-2. Guillen 0-2 tonight. fly ball to Rios on right centre for thoird out.

Top 5th: Jays needs to get going here. Snider in his own slump. Strikes out, may be time Cito to get Millar or Bautista in and give Snider some time off. Scutaro fly ball out to Bloomquist in left. Hill singles into right. His second of the night. Rios with two down and one on. Alex is fine going the opposite way it is when he tries to pull he gets into trouble, Strikes out. A walk in the park for Greinke tonight so far, Jays are toothless.
Bottom 5th: Butler 2-2 HR and double, 3-3, another home run to left. 7-2 Kansas. He had no Home runs on the season before tonight now has two, go figure. Jacobs full count and now Camp is up in bullpen. A little late Cito. Jacobs walks. Callaspo doubles into right. Rios fumbles but no damage. Runners at second and third and Cito is out there beefing with the umpire. First base umpire called ball foul and then safe. Runners at second and third Aviles lines this one into right and Rios overruns it, misjudges that one as well. Alex has had all kinds of trouble in right field here in Kansas.Two runs score, 9-2 Kansas. Aviles at third. And that is it for Tallet. Camp now in. Jays need Cleveland to save them tonight to keep above Boston. Olivo grounds to Scutaro throw to Overbay for the first out. Crisp passed ball and Olivo comes into score 10-2. Kansas. Crisp doubles into right. Bloomquist grounds back to Cap throw to Overbay, two down. Teahen grounds to Overbay flip to Camp for third out and this awful inning is finally over. Jays needs to hope that Greinke fell asleep. This took so long to complete.

Top 6th: Lots to make up, let’s see if the Jays have any spunk tonight. Wells to lead off by example ??? grounds to short, throw off the bag and Vernon safe. It’s a start. Lind nothing tonight so far. First pitch fly ball out to Guillen in right stays hitless. One down for Rolen, strikes out. Overbay 0-2 tonight. full count, Vernon can at least start to run. Called third strike. And that about sums up Jays feared lineup tonight.
Bottom 6th: White towel is thrown by Cito. A vote of confidence in his team. Bautista in for Wells in centre. Johnny Mc in for Scutaro. Guillen at bat, 3-1 count, grounds to Hill throw to first one down. Butler 3-3 tonight two hrs and a double. Full count here. singles into shallow right.4-4. Jacobs, doubles to centre. Runners at second and third. Callaspo 3-1 count. grounds to Hill throw to first for second out another run scores 11-2 Kansas. Runner at third two down. Aviles fly ball to Bautista, someone having pity on this team tonight. This is ugly, ugly Toronto baseball.

Top 7th: Pena at short, Maier in right, but no mercy for Jays from Kansas Grienke with 97 pitches still out there and why not, but I think Kansas giving far too much respect to this team tonight. Barajas first pitch fly ball to left. Rain is driving crowd out. Snider also nothing tonight. 0-2. Full count and long fly ball to center, two down. Johnny Mc. One hit this month. Full count at least here, fly ball to centre. Boston has won in the tenth so Jays are down again but tonight they do not merit first place.
Bottom 7th: Frasor pitching, have not seen him for a while. Only a few hundred fans stay to see the end of this one. Olivo at bat. grounds to Johnny Mc throw to Overbay for the out. Crisp still in there, 2-4 tonight. full count. fly ball out to Lind, two down for Bloomquist. Singles to Rios in right. Teahen high fly ball to Lind for third out. This is the first inning that Kansas has not scored since the first.
Top 8th: Six more outs for Jays how will they use them ? Greinke has gone 11 pitches, not quite sure why he pitched the seventh but still. Jamey Wright now pitching. Maier in centre DeJesus in right. Hill at bat perhaps the only Jay tonight to hold his head high tonight with his 2-3. Grounds to short but throw is wild at first and Aaron is safe. It’s a start. Rios now hitless and awful in the field tonight. Finally singles to right. Hill to third. Bautista for Wells grounds to third on to second for Rios out and to first for Bautista double play but Hill scores 11-3 ! Lind hitless also tonight, strikes out weakly. Jays were 1-5 tonight with runners in scoring position until Hill’s run.
Bottom 8th: Bill Murphy pitching, Guillen first pitch swinging fly ball out to Bautista. Butler, 4-4 tonight, no pinch hitter for him, fly ball out to Rios ruins his perfect evening. Two down. Jacobs pops up to Hill.

Top 9th: Juan Cruz finishing this one off. Rolen at bat, also hitless, but then by no means alone tonight. full count, gets a gimme. Single up the middle. Too little too late Scott. Overbay also hitless, fly ball out to left and remains hitless. Barajas loops one into shallow right, Rolen had to hold for possible catch and can only get to second, two on for Snider, also hitless and showing his rookie recently. Singles to second, Barajas out throw not in time to get Snider. Two down runners at corners for Johnny Mc. First pitch pop up to centre and that about sums up this one tonight.

All round hitting, fielding and pitching was awful by Jays with exception perhaps of Hill. Tomorrow they need a win just to tie this series let alone win it. I think they came into this series believing an easy four games and have a rude wakeup call.