Cincinatti v Toronto. Game one of three.
The good news is that Cito does not have to use pitchers in the lineup for the final six games against National League. Not sure why Russ Adams is in the lineup, but then am not sure why Cito even brought him up from Vegas. I am not a big Adams fan but that bias aside there are at least two others right now more deserving and ahead of him in Vegas. Ruiz and Coats both with ERAs over .325. Ah well he will probably hit a grand slam tonight. These teams met in Spring training so are well aware of each other. Looks like a huge crowd tonight for a Tuesday. Must be the $1 hot dogs. Loads of young people so the noise should be a factor if Jays can get the crowd excited.
Lineups: Cincinatti: Taveras, Hairston, Votto, Philips,Gomes, Hernandez, Bruce. Rosales, Dickerson and Owings pitching.
Toronto: Scutaro, Hill, Wells, Rolen, Lind, Rios, Overbay, Barajas, Adams and Tallet pitching
The good: HR’s by Rolen, Barajas and Scutaro, Stolen bases three tonight by Wells and Rios. Definitely good to see especially from Vernon and Alex struggling elsewhere they should be using their speed to more advantage. Everybody on lineup except Adams has a hit tonight.
The bad: Has to be Camp tonight loading the bases with no outs which lead to the first four runs. Throws 17 pitches to load them. Can’t blame Carlson, he threw 13 pitches 12 of them were strikes. That is what Cito wanted and yet one double and two sac fly balls were all that was needed plus execution. Speaking of which, Jays were 3/12 with runners in scoring position tonight.
Top 1st: Taveras strikes out. Hairston Jr strikes out. Votto getting a nice ovation on his return to Toronto and just off disabled list, strikes out. Tallet strikes out the side, great start. The last time Votto was here was for the Canada/ USA WBC game where he was the hero.
Bottom 1st: Scutaro lines out to third base Rosales. Hill fly ball to centre field Taveras. Two down for Wells, strikes out.
Top 2nd: Phillips grounds to Rolen throw to Overbay, one down. Gomes grounds to Scutaro throw to Overbay. Hernandez grounds to Scutaro throw to Overbay. First inning three strikeouts here three groundouts.
Bottom 2nd: Rolen, gets hold of this one and it is out of here Home run to centre. 1-0 Jays. Lind grounds back to pitcher Owings, third base Rosales throw to Votto at first. Rios singles to right. Overbay, Alex stealing and safe at second. Good to see that from Alex, should go more often. Overbay full count and walks. Barajas, there goes Alex again and safe at third. He really is aggressive tonight. Barajas grounds to Hairston jr, and safe at first on the error, Alex scores from third and Overbay moves to second. 2-0 Jays. Those stolen bases now huge. Adams grounds first base Votto throw to Hairston Jr, Barajas out at second, Overbay to third. Two down for Scutaro pops up to first base Votto. Jays are off and running.
Top 3rd: Bruce pops up to Hill. Rosales grounds to Scutaro throw to Overbay. Two down for Dickerson, singles to left. Taveras grounds to Scutaro throw to Hill at second baseman Dickerson out at second.
Bottom 3rd: Hill doubles to centre. Wells fly ball to Bruce in right. Rolen singles to left, Hill to third. Lind, singles to right, Hill scores 3-0 Jays. Rolen to third. Rios grounds ed into a double play, third baseman Rosales to second baseman Phillips to first baseman Votto, Lind out.
Top 4th: Hairston Jr bunting very nice single to first. Overbay and Hill go for it leaving no one at first. Hill should have gone to first as Overbay was closer to ball. Hairston safe. Votto singles to centre, Hairston Jr to second. Tallet in trouble for first time. Phillips grounds to Hill throw to Overbay double play ball. Hairston Jr to third. Gomes full count and walks, two on for Hernandez pops to Hill.
Bottom 4th: Overbay fly ball to left field Dickerson. One down for Barajas, yes Rod, very nice hit, home run to left. 4-0 Jays. Adams grounds to first base Votto flip to Owings for the out. Scutaro fly ball to right field Bruce.
Top 5th: Bruce pops up to Scutaro. Rosales strikes out. Dickerson strikes out. Tallet is mowing them down.
Bottom 5th: Hill infield single to third beats out the throw. Wells fly ball to Taveras in centre, Hill tags and moves to second. Rolen lines to Taveras in centre field. Lind intentional walk. Manager Dusty Baker rolling the dice here to get to Rios. Safe bet, Alex pops up to second base Phillips.
Top 6th: Taveras strikes out. Hairston Jr fly ball to Rios. Votto strikes out. Career high for Tallet in strikeouts. Not bad for a guy who pitched three days ago.
Bottom 6th: Overbay grounds to Votto flip to Owings. Barajas grounds to third beats out the throw. Adams pops up to second base Phillips. Scutaro with Barajas at first. Home run to left, just gets over the wall into the Jays bullpen but they all count and Scutaro’s first hit tonight.Two runs score and Jays are 6-0 .That’s it for Owings.. Fisher now pitching. Hill grounds to third base Rosales throw to first base Votto but Jays are building up a good lead..
Top Reds 7th: Camp now pitching. Phillips singles to centre. Gomes walks, Phillips to second.Hernandez full count and walks bases loaded and no one out. Phillips to third, Gomes to second. That’s it for Camp. Tried his best to blow this one, still not out of the woods yet, Carlson pitching. Bruce doubles to left two runs score Phillips and Gomes, 6-2 Jays. Rosales sac fly to Rios, Hernandez scores 6-3 Jays. Bruce moves to third still with only one out. Dickerson sac fly to Wells and Reds are back in this one, thanks Camp. 6-4 Jays. Taveras fly ball to Rios. Damage is done.
Bottom 7th: Wells doubles to left. The only way to answer all that. Rolen at bat and there goes Vernon, same as Alex stealing third and safe. Rolen lines out to shortstop Hairston Jr. That’s it for Owings, Herrera now pitching. Lind singles to centre, Wells scores. 7-4 Jays. Rios pops up to second base Phillips. Overbay singles to left, Lind to second. Burton now pitching.Barajas strikes out.
Top 8th: League pitching.Hairston Jr walked.Hairston Jr stole second.Votto grounded out, shortstop Scutaro to first baseman Overbay, Hairston Jr to third. Philips grounds to Overbay flip to League covering and Hairston jr scores.Gomes hit by a pitch. Hernandez fly ball to Rios.
Bottom 8th: Cito not going with pinch hitter for Adams here despite his 0-3 tonight, Adams pops up to third base Rosales. I rest my case re Adams. Scutaro strikes out. Hill pops up to first base Votto.
Top 9th: Frasor now pitching. Bruce fly ball to Rios. One down. Nix pinch-hitting for Rosales. strikes out. Dickerson singles to left. Richar pinch-hitting for Taveras. Richar grounds out, to Hill throw to Overbay.
Jays win this one 7-5, but could have been a nasty one when they (Camp) lets the lead go from 6-0 to 6-4.
Crowd announced at over 30,000, that is one of the largest week games not including Boston or the Yankees.
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