Jays v Yankees in Dunedin.
Yankees do not send their first crew but Granderson and Swisher were subject to a thrashing.
Always a great day when Yankees fans start leaving the game early and this was it today with near sellout crowd at Dunedin.
Jays pitchers starter Drabek, Jo Jo Reyes who looks better each succeeding outing, Rauch another scoreless inning, Purcey also scoreless and Janssen finished them off. Casey made heavy weather of the 9th but gave up only one run.
Jays hammered 17 hits today off very poor and ineffective Yankees pitching and even worse defence.
The poor: error on first pitch by Mike McCoy missing simple out on Granderson ground ball which lead to first Yankees run but he compensated with a great triple although aided by an off- target throw to third by Granderson.
Yankees defence today was pitiful; pitching was terrible none of the six pitchers could control the Jays hitters today. It was one steady procession by the Jays loading the bases so many times and yet their old problem of runners in scoring position.
An amazing stat: This team went 3-15 with runners in scoring position and still won 10-3.
The very good: Jose Bautista and Adam Lind both get their first home runs of the season. Travis Snider had three hits and hit the ball very hard each time out, is he ever locked in right now.
Encarnacion wakes up with a double off centre field wall, McCoy a triple. Goins, Johnny Mc., Cooper, Rivera, even Jose Molina, add in seven, yes seven walks by Yankees pitching staff and this was one long procession to the basepads by Jays hitters today.
Scott Posednik makes his first appearance and leading off today impressed with his first hit and stolen base plus threatening to steal several times on his next appearance at first. Jays have lots of speed in the dugout this season.
A great game for Jays fans and the Yankees fan sitting next to me ran out of excuses.
Sorry Jim, time to switch support to these Blue Jays.
Yankees leave their first squad to play the Braves but that strategy did not help them much either as they lost also to Atlanta 6-2.
16 runs against Yankees today, easy to see where their problem lies, pitching, pitching and more pitching or rather in their case, no pitching. Their depth appears to be very limited.
Tomorrow Jays have split squads tomorrow with Pittsburgh in Dunedin and Detroit in Lakeland.
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