Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Jays lose 8-5 to Tampa despite excellent come back.

Jays v Rays. Game two of three. Two rookie pitchers tonight. Hutchison v Moore. Lineups: Jays: Johnson, Escobar, Bautista, Encarnacion, Arencibia, Lawrie, Rasmus, Gomes, Davis and Hutchison pitching. Gomes playing at first base, Edwin is DH. Rays: Pena, Upton, Joyce, Zobrist, Scott, Rodriguez, Sutton, Giminez, Johnson and Moore pitching. Top 1st: Johnson leading off, 2-2 count, strikes out, Giminez drops the ball, throw to first for the out. Escobar, 0-2 count, grounds to short, throw to first, two down. Bautista, 1-2 count. singles into right. Leans out to make contact with this and pokes it into right. Encarnacion. Full count, low inside ball, two on for Arencibia. 0-2 strikes out swinging to end the inning. Bottom 1st: Pena, grounds to Escobar at short, throw to Gomes playing at first tonight for the out. Upton, full count, pulls it into left for standup double. Joyce two down one in scoring position. Full count, grounds to Johnson at second, throw to Gomes. Upton to third on the play. Two down for Zobrist. 0-2 count, strikes out swinging to end the inning. Top 2nd: Lawrie, strikes out swinging, one down for Rasmus, grounds to first for the out, two down for Gomes. Bounces one back to Moore, fields it himself and throws a strike to first for the final out. Bottom 2nd: Scott, goes the other way and lines it high into the left field seats. Home run and Pena, Upton, Joyce Rays go out ahead 1-0. Rodriguez, fly ball to left, great speed of Rajai Davis in left to make the catch. One down for Sutton, strikes out swinging, two down. Giminez, lines softly to Johnson at second but Rays strike first. 1-0 game. Top 3rd: Davis, strikes out swinging, one down for Johnson, 1-2 count, strikes out swinging, two down, bounces it in front of home plate but catcher Giminez unable to make the play and safe at first is Escobar. Bautista, two down. Lines it to right but Zobrist makes the good catch to end the inning. Bottom 3rd: Johnson, singles back up the middle, one on for Pena. There goes Johnson, safe on the throw. 2-2 on Pena. Strikes out, one down for Upton. Pops it up to Johnson in shallow right centre, two down for Joyce. Hits him, missed badly. two on two down. Zobrist. Fly ball to Bautista in right to end this one. Top 4th: Encarnacion, high pop up to Joyce in left for the out. Arencibia, grounds to Johnson at short, throw to first, two down.Lawrie, lines it to first off the arm of the umpire, not good has to leave the game. Lawrie always Lawrie and the umpires. Strikes out swinging. Bottom 4th: Scott leading off. Full count, lines this one to right and off the wall, stand up double. Rodriguez, bunting, nice diving catch by Hutchison , one down. Sutton, lines it into right field corner, Scott scores, 2-0 Rays. Sutton a double. Giminez, wild pitch and Sutton to third. Grounds to Lawrie, Sutton coming home and safe on throw by Lawrie. 3-0 Rays with Giminez to first. Johnson, lines to Davis in left. Two on for Pena, hammers this one to deep centre, off the scoreboard and Rays go out 6-0. Hutchison shellshocked out there. Upton, pops it up to Escobar at short two down.Joyce, 3-1 count, lines it to Bautista in right for the out. Top 5th: Jays long haul back in this one but plenty of time. Rasmus leading off 3-0 count, ball four outside, Jays need runners. One on for Gomes, 2-2 count, grounds back to the pitcher throw to second, Rasmus upends him as he throws to first and throw off the bag Gomes safe at first, one down. Davis, 1-2 count, grounds to short, throw to second to get Gomes, over to first not in time to get Rajai, speed once again., Two down. Johnson, There goes Rajai and safe on the throw. Speed. full count, there goes Rajai, no throw, outside ball four. Two on two down for Escobar. 3-1 high ball four, bases loaded for Bautista. Full count, lines it to left,here comes Davis, followed by Johnson and Jays are on the board with two. 6-2 Rays. Encarnacion, runners at the corners two down. Another full count, grounds to third Rodriguez throw to first gets away, Zobrist throw home gets away, two more runs score and two errors on that play, wowowow... 6-4 game. All of the runs scored with two strikes and two outs. Moore never knew what hit him there as he heads to the dugout. Badenhop now pitching. Arencibia with one on and two down. Lines it to right but Zobrist makes the catch. Jays are back in this one. Bottom 5th: Evan Crawford now pitching. Zobrist all over this pitch but foul left. full count, singles to Rasmus in centre. Scott, 3-1 count, pops it up to Arencibia, makes the catch with both hands, one down. Rodriguez, first pitch, pops it up to Gomes in foul ground at first, two down. Sutton, singles back up the middle to Rasmus. Two on for Giminez two on two down. Lines to Davis in left, throw to Crawford relay to Escobar at 3B to tag out Sutton, one run Zobrist scores but could have been been much worse. 7-4 Rays. Top 6th: Wade Davis now pitching. Lawrie leading off. Pops first pitch up to Zobrist in right, one down. Rasmus, 2-2 count, pops it up to Rodriguez, two down . Gomes, WOW !!! launches this one, a huge shot to left, home run Yan. Wow HUGE. 7-5 Rays. Thames pinch hitting for Davis. Strikes out on three pitches, some pinch hitter. I maintain that Jays have more value kin Davis than Thames. Bottom 6th: Johnson leading off. Lines it into left stand up double. Pena, 0-2 count, Luis Perez warming up. Fly ball to Rasmus in centre, one down for Upton. There goes Johnson, throw by Arencibia to Lawrie gets him at third, wow great play, two down. Oh boy, Upton hammers this one high to left into the seats and Jays fall back again, 8-5. At least Johnson was not on base. Joyce, shift on right, grounds to Lawrie in shallow right, throw to Gomes for third out. But rays get that one back. Not sure that Crawford is ready yet for the big show. Top 7th: Johnson, pops it up into shallow left but Rodriguez makes nice catch. One down for Escobar, 2-0 count, pops it up to right for to make the catch. Two down for Bautista, 2-3 tonight, singles into left. Third hit tonight. Encarnacion, two down one on. Singles to left, Bautista all the way to third on the play, throw is late. Two on two down for Arencibia. 1-2 count, fly ball to Zobrist in right to end this one. Jays are running out of at bats. Bottom 7th: Luis Perez now pitching. Zobrist leading off. Pops it up to Escobar, one down. Scott, shift right on. 1-2 count, fly ball to right, but Lawrie makes the catch on the line. Rodriguez, singles to Rasmus in centre, one on two down for Sutton, fly ball to Rasmus to make the catch and Perez did his job. Top 8th: Joel Peralta now pitching. Lawrie leading off. 1-2 count, grounds to third, Rodriguez throw gets away at first and Lawrie safe. One on for Rasmus, 1-2 count, strikes out swinging. One down for Gomes, lines to hard to Upton, centre, but makes the catch, oh Lawrie also out he had gone past second base and had to return on that out, but because he had gone past the bag he was out. Lawrie arguing but no joy. Bottom 8th: Villanueva now pitching. Giminez pops up first pitch to Lawrie at third. Johnson grounds back to Villanueva throw to Gomes at first for second out. Pena, shift right on, lines to right Lawrie in shallow cuts it off but throw not in time to get runner. One on two down for Upton. 3-1 count, grounds to Escobar, throw to Gomes at first for final out. Top 9th: Jays down to their last three. Rodney now pitching. Thames, 3-1 count, fly ball to Upton in centre for the first out. Top of the order, Johnson. 1-2 count, strikes out swinging, two down. Escobar, 1-2 count, takes strike three, you cannot do that Yunel, arguing with the umpire, good luck. Jays fought back but Crawford unable to help them in his two innings. Not sure why Farrell gave him two innings when Perez and Villanueva get one each. But Farrell always has his reasons, probably ego building for Crawford or something. The excellent: Bautista three hit night. Gomes another home run. The very good: Jays speed noted in that fifth inning staying out of double plays twice, Rasmus slide at second to break up double play. Rajai Davis speed to get on base. Not so good: Crawford, not good to give up two more runs after Jays had closed the gap.Maybe Crawford should be pitching in Vegas.

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