Toothless Jays lose 5-1 with poor display

Red Sox v Jays. Game one of three.

A result that was expected, but not the way it was played.

Jays hitters had nothing tonight but even when they were in scoring position the old bugbear unable to bring the runners in 0-6 tonight with runners in scoring position.
Jo-Jo Reyes turned in another good performance, kept the Jays in the game but you don’t win many games with one run.

Highlights beside Reyes was the bullpen of Lopez, Camp and Francisco picking up Reyes and keeping it close enough, but tonight the bats were absent yet again.
Jose had several excellent hits but only one counted. Lind was absent most of the night and without these two the team is sadly missing. Arencibia is still hit and miss with his pitch selection and takes too many third strikes for my liking, especially with runners on base and two down.

Great to see the “Vote Jose” movement and hear the news that he is now over the two million mark, that is incredible. Lots of “Vote Jose” shirts out there tonight. I am sure he would prefer to be hitting right now but it will come back and a couple of hits tonight were good, it is not as if he is missing wildly.
The other gold star tonight after Reyes, has to go to Mike McCoy filling in at short for Escobar, made all three outs in that first inning and one incredible diving catch later which saved at least a double. Fresh off the four walk night in Kansas he is starting to settle in as an excellent bench player and I hate to say it but in the role that Johnny Mac played.

The downers tonight were the play of Aaron Hill both with glove and bat. Aaron is really struggling and just cannot get into that “left- field swinging” which provided so many of his home runs. He did get two hard hits but to the deepest part in centre, and again when he did pull it was into the crowd behind third base.
Camp turned his ankle in the ninth but stayed in for one more hitter, I hope he is not suffering tonight. Jays injury list is getting far too long.

Boston didn’t get into town until 6.30 a.m. today so it will be interesting to see how they do tomorrow. I felt sorry for all those Red Sox fans who rushed in early only to find that there was no batting practice. I must admit also that they were quieter than usual tonight, certainly fewer around our seats, but that could have been they were lulled to sleep by pitcher Bucholz who has to rival Jason Frasor for the slow speed at the mound. But that was before Papelbon came in. No wonder Red Sox-Yankees games are four hour affairs.

Good to see a bigger crowd than usual announced at 28,000 but it was too bad that the Jays could not give them anything at all to get excited about and want to return tomorrow. The hitters up and down the line-up need a lot of work to do right now.