Jays embarrass themselves losing this one and the series

Toronto v Washington Game two of three.

You know that Jays are going to make heavy weather of the rookie Detwiler tonight but they should have the bats to counter that. Cecil pitching again but who knows what he will bring.

Lineups: Toronto: Scutaro, Hill, Wells, Rolen, Lind, Rios, Millar, Chavez, and Cecil pitching and hitting tonight.
Washington: Guzman, Johnson, Zimmerman, Dunn, Dukes, Gonzalez, Harries, Nieves, Detwiler pitching and hitting.

The good: Pitching. Cecil and Camp in particular. Nothing else although Vernon did finally get a home run but that should not be extraordinary news, unfortunately it is.

The bad: Where do we start? Up and down the lineup. This team is flat, and right now playing very badly. Forget Philadelphia, they are in Washington playing the very worst team in the majors and losing badly and could easily get swept tomorrow. That would be season bottom if that does happen. Forget the 0-9 losing streak, this is far worse. Cito has major problems with his hitters not his pitching. Even if they were to win tomorrow Nationals have won their second successive series.
Wells and Rios grounding into double plays but did Cito finally have enough with Rios and bench him ?

Top 1st: Scutaro fly ball to right field Dukes. Hill walks. Wells strikes out. Rolen fly ball to right field Dukes. Easy first inning for the rookie.
Bottom 1st: Guzman grounds to third and beats out the throw. Johnson full count and walks two on and no outs, this could be a long night for Cecil. Zimmerman grounds to Scutaro to second baseman on to Hill throw to Millar, double play ball. Dunn fly ball to Lind.

Top 2nd: Lind grounds to second base Gonzalez throw to Johnson at first. Rios grounds to third base Zimmerman throw to Johnson. Millar grounds to short Guzman throw to Johnson. Johnson a busy guy. Easy three up and down for Detwiler.
Bottom 2nd: Dukes grounds to third, safe at first. Gonzalez pops up to Millar. Harris strikes out. Dukes stealing, great throw by Chavez to get third out.

Top 3rd: Chavez singles to right. Cecil at bat, wild pitch by Detwiler, Chavez to second. That saves Cecil doing the bunt. Cecil strikes out. Scutaro pops up to first base Johnson. Hill grounds to Guzman at shirt, throw to Johnson.
Bottom 3rd: Nieves grounds to Scutaro throw to Millar. Detwiler grounds to Scutaro throw to Millar. Guzman grounds to Rolen throw to Millar. Three up and down for Cecil.

Top 4th: Wells leading off fly ball to Harris i centre field.. Rolen singles to centre. One on one down. Lind singles to left, Rolen to second. Finally starting to get to Detwiler. Rios at bat with two on and one down. Oh boy here we go, grounds to second base Gonzalez throw to Guzman on to first base Johnson, double play. Alex back to his old tricks.
Bottom 4th: Johnson singles to right. Zimmerman strikes out. Dunn strikes out. Dukes grounds to Rolen on to Hill, Johnson out.

Top 5th: Millar singles to left. Chavez lines out to centre field Harris. Cecil strikes out. Two down one on. Scutaro lines to Dunn in left. Jays just cannot fathom this rookie out.
Bottom 5th: Gonzalez grounds to Hill throw to Millar. One down for Harris, doubles to left. Harris stealing third and safe. Nieves sacrifice fly to Lind, and Harris scores 1-0 Washington. That’s the way it is done Cito. Execution. At this rate that will be the wining run. Jays hitters have scored one run in 14 innings against the worst team in the majors. I would say that is a slump. 0-4 with runners in scoring position tonight.

Top 6th: Detwiler has outpitched Jays tonight. The hitters have gone cold in Washington. Whatever it is they had better snap out of it. Hill flied out to right field Dukes. Finally Vernon gets hold of this one home run for Vernon, when was the last one ? 150 ? at bats, that is a quarter of a season. I guess even the number nine will do that eventually. That is an average of four per season ??? Anyway this game is all tied up 1-1. Now get those bats unloaded and stop the embarrassment. Rolen lines out to first base Johnson. Lind fly ball to Harris in centre
Bottom 6th: Guzman doubles to left. Not what Jays wanted. Cecil needs to shut them down here not let them get back in it. Johnson doubles to centre, Guzman scores, just like that Washington ahead again 2-1 Washington. Cecil still in trouble. Zimmerman fly ball to Rios. One down. Dunn grounds to Scutaro throw to Millar, Johnson to third. Two down. Dukes doubles to centre, Johnson scores 3-1 Washington. Dukes heading to third throw from Wells to Scutaro great relay on to Rolen to get Dukes but damage is done and the way Jays hitters are going this could be it.

Top 7th: Rios hitless tonight lines to second base Gonzalez. Alex 0-3 on the night. Millar fly ball to Dukes in right. Chavez fly ball to Harris in centre.
Bottom 7th: Gonzalez singles to left. Harris grounds to Hill on to Scutaro double play. Nieves grounds to Hill throw to Millar. Cecil goes seven and 104 pitches, very good outing but needed some run support.

Top 8th: Bautista pinch hitting for Cecil. Detwiler dominant Cy Young tonight over the hapless, hitless apathetic Jays. There’s a hit singles to right, but they need a lot more than that to pull this one out. That’s it for the rookie, great pitching gets a huge standing ovation and deservedly so. 99 pitches, wow. Jays would love that Kip Wells now pitching. Perhaps Jays will have better luck against him, but don’t bet on it tonight. One run in 17 innings by these Jays hitters that is disgusting against the worst team in the majors ???? Scutaro what can he do ? Not much tonight. 0-3. Scutaro bunting and Bautista safe at second. One down for Hill. Also hitless tonight, but then most of them are.. Jays 0-4 with runners in scoring position. Finally Hill singles to left, Bautista beats the poor throw to score 3-2 and Hill gets to second. Wells pitching to Wells, ball gets away and Hill to third. Fly ball will do it Vernon, pops up to short. Two down. Rolen, change of pitcher. Will be interesting to see who Cito brings in bottom of the inning. Should be Ryan but….. never know with Cito. Hanrahan pitching. Need a single here Scott. Thank you thank you, finally, singles to left, and Hill scores this game is tied up 3-3. Lind swinging for the White House here. Singles off the body of Hernandez at second Lind safe at first, Rolen safe at second. Here’s Alex, good news is that he can’t hit into a double play here. But can he get a single to bring in Rolen? Head in the air swinging over that one. Full count. He won’t take one here, but yes he does and takes third strike looking. What a lousy at bat. Alex you are paid big bucks to hit.
Bottom 8th: Hang on friends. Heart pills time. Here’s BJ.. Willingham, pinch hitting. 3-1 don’t walk him please BJ. Ball four. Walks the leadoff. Guzman Ball one, Nationals hitters not biting, Guzman bunting, Ryan throw to Millar for the out. Willingham to second. Johnson with one on and one down. Grounds to Scxutaro throw to Millar two down and Willingham at third. Zimmerman, here comes Cito ?? Inglett ? in for Rios, what’s up there? Perhaps Cito was as mad as we were about Rios at bat last inning. That would be a change. Camp now pitching. We can’t see BJ’s expression. First pitch fly ball to Wells. Nice job and BJ’s ERA will also drop further. From 5.71 ERA to 5.50.

Top 9th: MacDougall pitching 12 walks to 9 strikeouts ratio, be patient here guys. Millar to leadoff. 1-3 tonight. Grounds to Guzman short throw to Johnson at first for first out. Chavez not Barajas… a real night off. Grounds to Guzman throw to Johnson, two down. Inglett grounds to second throw to Johnson and Jays go very quietly. Three up and down. Boston has already won their game against Atlanta
Bottom 9th: Camp pitching. Dunn at bat. Full count, strikes out looking. Dukes strikes out. Two down for Gonzalez, singles to left. One on two down for Harris 3-0 count. Come on Camp. Walks him. Two on for Hernandez. 0-2 great pitch. Grounds back to Camp flip to Millar and we have another extra innings game. Will the Jays hitters show up this time?

Top 10th: Top of the order. Scutaro, Hitless but sacrificed last at bat. MacDougal still pitching. Need base runners Marco. 3-1 count, takes this one, high and ball four. Leadoff guy on. Hill now has to get him over. Not bunting. Not with 70 odd hits. Grounds to third Zimmerman throw to second but poor throw pulls Gonzalez off the bag and cannot get two. Scutaro out at second. Not a good throw. Wells.with one on. No Vernon. Grounds to short throw to second on to first double play ball. Ugly inning for Jays after Scutaro was on.
Bottom 10th: Who’s pitching for Jays ? Camp still out there. Kearns pinch hitting grounds to Rolen, bobble it but still gets good throw to Millar, one down. Guzman grounds to Millar flip to Camp, two down. That’s was a sprint. Johnson grounds to Camp takes it in himself to first for third out. Nice pitching by Camp. But once again time for the hitters to show up.

Top 11th: Colome again. Rolen at bat. 2-4 tonight. Strikes out on high ball. Lind also 2-4 tonight. He was watching that at bat, full count and ball four. Lind is on with one down for Overbay pinch hitter in Rios position. Alex has to sit and watch this one. Training staff is out Colome has a problem. He is out of game. Tavarez pitching. Overbay takes third strike. Two down for Millar, Lind still out on first. Kevin has really tanked after great start. Full count, don’t take this one Kevin, too many called third strikes tonight by Jays hitters, outside so he has no choice. Two on two down for Chavez, would love a hit here, not like that, wild swing at first pitch outside. Fly ball to centre. Jays leave two more on.
Bottom 11th: Scott Richmond pitching. Cito anticipating a long stint here? Can’t blame him the way his hitters have been silent in last two games. Overbay at first for Millar. Zimmerman, strikes out looking. One down for Dunn, gets under it and high, very high fly ball to Inglett, that was almost out of here. Had the distance, the problem was it was vertical straight up. Hang time was forever. Dukes with two down. Grounds to Rolen long throw to Overbay. Nice pitching by Richmond.

Top 12th: Inglett fly ball to right one down. Scutaro called third strike, what’s wrong with these guys tonight? Hill with two down come on Aaron get a hit here. I bet Washington wish the Jays were in their division. Lines it right at Zimmerman at third.
Bottom 12th: Gonzalez first pitch singles to centre. One on for Harris showing bunt, full count, there it goes Home run into right field bullpen Nationals win this one 5-3 and going for a sweep of the Jay tomorrow and the way Jays are playing here it could be so.