Jays top four show awesome POWER with six home runs to beat Brewers 10-9 in a 4 hour roller coaster thriller

Jays v Brewers. Game two of three. Jays on the wrong end of a great game last night, excellent fight back from early 6-1 deficit. Just a matter of inches on the go ahead home run which did not seem conclusive even on the replays and certainly the Brewer fans in left field corner were far from celebrating. Thornburg a rookie replacing Marcum. Should be interesting to see whether top of the lineup can get to him early. Three home runs last night but not enough to win. However to see Jose and Edwin go deep in the same game is great to see. Both were moon shots last night, huge home runs. Jays send out Chavez who has at least pitched in the majors although tonight will be his first start. Yankees going for win number ten tonight, would the Jays could go on a run like that. Lineups: Jays: Lawrie, Rasmus, Bautista, Encarnacion, Johnson, Escobar, Davis, Arencibia, and Chavez pitching and hitting. Brewers: Aoki, Gomez, Braun, Ramirez, Hart, Weeks, Maldanado, Maysonet, and Thornburg pitching and hitting. Top 1st: Lawrie, drives it into right, leadoff single Rasmus with one on. Bunting, fouls it off. Whoa, lines this one to right and just foul of the pole. 2-2 count, grounds back to Thornburg, over to second on to first double play ball. Two down for Bautista. Pops it up to Weeks at second for final out. 10 pitch inning. Bottom 1st: Aoki, 1-2 count, strikes out swinging, one down for Gomez, 2-2 count, strikes out swinging, nice pitch, two down for Braun full count, drives it to Davis in left. Two down one on for Ramirez. 2-1 count. Bounces to right, great play by Escobar, barehanded stop and throw to get Ramirez to end the inning. Pitch count 20 though. He needs some big run support tonight. Top 2nd: Encarnacion, 2-1 fly ball to Aoki in right for the out. Johnson lines first pitch to Aoki in right for second out. Escobar, 2-2 count, grounds to third, three up and down, 19 pitches ! that is crazy, free swinging Jay hitters making it look too easy for the rookie. Bottom 2nd: Meantime Chavez pitched more pitches in his one inning. Hart, 1-2 count, strikes out looking. One down for Weeks, 2-2 count, strikes out looking. Maldanado, 0-2 count, grounds to Lawrie at third, throw to Edwin at first. Pitch count 32. A lot better but long way to go. Top 3rd: Davis leading off, has to vary his routine a bit, no bunting here Rajai. First pitch bunting, foul, sigh. Way outside swing and misses, 1-2 count, strikes out swinging. One down for Arencibia, full count, that’s better grounds it back up the middle. Chavez, one on one down, showing bunt. Ridiculous. 1-2 count, gets it down this time and Arencibia to second as Thornburg throw to first for second out. Lawrie, chance to get it going here. 2-2 count, WOWEEE drives this one high to centre and bounces off the top of the wall, home run Lawrie, 2-0 Jays. Rasmus, grounds to second throw to first to end the inning. 42 pitch count. Bottom 3rd: Maysonet, 2-2 count, fly ball to Rasmus for the out but took eight pitches. Thornburg, swinging away and drives it to the wall in centre, stand up double. Aoki, pops it up to Rasmus in left centre for second out. Gomez, 1-2 count, lines it to the wall in left centre and Thornburg scores 2-1 Jays. Braun, not the guy you want to see here. Full count, low ball four, two on for Ramirez. Another full count, outside ball four and bases loaded. Hart, 2-2 count, oh no hits him on the shoulder and here comes tying run. 2-2 game. Weeks bases still loaded. 3-0 count, Villanueva warming up in bullpen. Full count. whoa, ball four but that was great pitch, very close. 3-2 game bases still loaded. Maldanado, 3-1 count, outside ball four, another run scores 4-2 game. That is it for Chavez. Villanueva now pitching. Bases still loaded. Maysonet for second time in the inning. 1-2 count, strikes out, leaves the bases loaded. His manager will not like that. Great opportunity lost to blow the game open. Three of those runs came without a hit. Now time for Jays to payback plus. Top 4th: Bautista leading off. Fly ball to Gomez in centre, one down for Encarnacion, full count, grounds to Maysonet at short, two down for Johnson, let’s hope he has more than one pitch this time. 2-2, strikes out swinging. 57 pitch count. Thornburg cruising against weak Jays hitters tonight. So far unable to solve the AA pitcher. Bottom 4th: Thornburg, 0-2 count, strikes out swinging on three pitches, normalcy returns. Aoki, bounces to Johnson, throw to Edwin, two down for Gomez, 0-2 count, takes strike three, easy three up and down inning for Carlos. They need that one. Top 5th: Escobar leading off. 2-2 count, grounds to short, throw to first, one down for Davis. First pitch swinging pops it up to centre for the out. Not sure which is worse with Davis hitting, trying to bunt or swinging wildly at first pitch. Arencibia, full count hammers this on to right centre and bounces over the wall. Ground rule double for Arencibia, Villanueva, 2-2 count, hits it hard to right but right at Ramirez, nice at bat though Carlos. You made him work a lot harder than some of your colleagues. Pitch count 75. Bottom 5th: Braun leading off. 2-1 count, grounds to Johnson at second, throw to Edwin, one down. Ramirez, full count, low ball four. One on one down for Hart, pops it up to Bautista in right, two down. Weeks, lines it to Davis in left, Braun stops at second. Two on for Maldanado, 2-2 count, takes strike three. No damage done. But can his own hitters do some? Top 6th: So far Thornburg has owned the Jays apart from the two run home run, no offence tonight from Jays hitters, Lawrie excepted of course. They are fortunate it is not Marcum tonight. Lawrie leading off. 2-2 tonight. Drives this one hard and deep to centre to the wall for the out. Gave it his best. One down for Rasmus. WHOA Colby, hammers a moon shot to right, home run Rasmus to make this a one run game 4-3. Bautista, hammers this one to left and just foul. THIS TIME YES JOSE, hammers hard to left and into the second deck seats, wow. Number 21 for Jose. Back to back 4-4 game. Thornburg in shock. Encarnacion, 2-2 count, OH WOW EDWIN my man, demolishes this pitch and high to left centre and almost out of the ball park ??? 5-4 Jays. Back to back to back home runs for the Jays. And sayonara to Thornburg. Those three hits were incredibly hard hit pitches. Tim Dillard sidearmer now pitching. Johnson, one down, 2-2 count, lines to third, throw to first, two down. Escobar, bounces over the pitcher, beats out the throw at first. Davis, takes ball one, that is different. Full count. Ball four, two on for Arencibia. He would love to hit one out. That’s ok JP, singles to left and here comes Escobar from second, 6-4 Jays. Davis to third. Cooper pinch hitting. Full count as he swings at ball four. Grounds to third, throw to first for third out. Disappointing with Cooper but at least Jays get the lead back with a power show. Jose also climbing the list of HR hitters again. Two ahead of him now. Dunn and Hamilton. Bottom 6th: Coello pitching for second night in a row. Maysonet leading off. 0-2 count, lifts it over the head of Edwin at first, “excuse me” hit but they all count. Pinch hitter Morgan for Dillard, 0-2 count, oh boy another “excuse me” hit to left, bounces in just fair. Nobody out for Aoki. Top of the order. 1-2 count. strikes out, huge out. One down for Gomez, need a ground ball here. 3-0 count. High ball four. That might be it for Coello, yes indeed Farrell almost running out there. Jason Frasor now has the difficult task. Braun with bases loaded. full count, trying to be too fine Jason. That is what happened to Chavez. Low ball four, here comes run five. 6-5 Jays. Ramirez with bases still loaded. You could see this coming, huge hit to left and this one is out of here grand slam Ramirez and Brewers retake the lead 9-6. Hart, 0-2 count, strikes out on three pitches, too little too late Jason. Two down. Weeks, 2-2 count, strikes out swinging to end this but Fraser gives back the lead. Not good at all, especially when Jays had the momentum after the fifth breakout power. Top 7th: Jays hitters must shudder every time a reliever comes in. Start all over again. Lawrie, Manny Parra now pitching. Full count Fly ball to Aoki in right. One down for, Rasmus, 2-1 count, fly ball to centre for the second out. Bautista two down, 3-0 count, ball four, Jose getting used to this. Encarnacion will they pitch to him? Inside ball one, maybe not. High ball two, Edwin not biting. Swings now at ball three, and ball four, 2-2 count, but not ball five, full count. singles to left and Jose going to third on the throw gets away and here he comes to score, yes aggressive base running by Jose 9-7 game. Edwin to second. Johnson who has done nothing tonight, Time to step up here Kelly. 0-2 count. Lucky guy, strikes out but ball gets away to back stop and Kelly safe at first Edwin to third. Escobar now can he just keep it going? 2-2 count, yes that’s all you have to do Yunel, singles to left, here comes Edwin 9-8 game. Two on two down for Davis, oh boy. Wild pitch and both runners move up into scoring position. Base hit here Rajai will do it. 2-2 count, way outside, full count, fouls it off. Strikes out swinging on ball four. But Jays get within one again. Jays have outhit the Brewers 11-7. Can the bullpen hold the Brewers here? Red Sox have won tonight so a Jays loss here will send them to the bottom again. Bottom 7th: Cordero, Farrell has little choice. Maldanado smashes it to third but Lawrie makes great catch, one down. Maysonet, 2-2 count, grounds it back up the middle. Kottaras pinch hitting for Parra. Oh boy lines it hard to right centre, Rasmus fumbles the catch at the wall, into his glove then out as he hits the wall and unable to gather it again. Runners at second and third, no error given. Aoki, grounds to Cordero, tags him out as. runners hold, two down for Gomez. Pops first pitch up to Edwin at first and Jays escape major trouble there. Top 8th: Jays get a life there can they capitalize now? Frankie Rodriguez in the way here though, Arencibia leading off. 2-2 count, takes strike three inside, JP does not agree. May have a case as well. Vizquel, pinch hitting drives it to Aoki in right for the out. Two down for Lawrie. Full count, strikes out swinging. Bottom 8th: Darren Oliver now pitching. Braun leading off. 3-1 count, lines it to first, great diving catch by Edwin, very nice, One down for Ramirez. 0-2 count, fly ball to Rasmus in centre, two down for Hart. 2-2 count, strikes out swinging. Another great pitching job by Oliver, he has been superb all season. Top 9th: Top of the order to face Axford, you can’t ask for more with a one run game. Rasmus to lead off. Axford had the save last night. Colby showing bunt. Not anymore, 3-1 count. WHOAAAAAA Colby does it again lines it to right and just over the wall, home run number two for him tonight. 9-9 game, very nice. Bautista with nobody out. 3-1 count, I don’t believe it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jose lines it to right opposite field shot second deck facing, back to back again 10-9 Jays. Encarnacion, still nobody out. WOW... It is the opposite field hit that is just as if not more important here for Jose. 2-2 count. Casey Janssen now working. Way outside full count, almost falls over with that swing as he strikes out. First out of the inning for Axford. Johnson, time for others to step up as well here. 0-4 night for Kelly. Grounds to second throw to first for second out, not good at all Kelly. 0-5 night. Escobar, keep it going Yunel. 2-2 count. Lines to centre but running catch by Gomez for the out. Now Casey can you save this thing? Bottom 9th: Janssen now pitching for the save. Weeks leading off. 1-2 count, Casey gets that low inside corner important for him. Strikes out swinging, one down. Maldanado, pops it up to Escobar in shallow left, two down. Cody Ransom pinch hitting for Maysonet, 1-1 count, lines it past a diving Escobar, this roller coaster is not over yet. One on for Taylor Green pinch hitting. Full count, come on Casey. There we go, grounds to Johnson at second, throw to Edwin for final out. Jays win huge comeback game 10-9. One of the most exciting games this season. Four hours. WOW. The excellent: POWer from top four Lawrie, Rasmus, Bautista and Encarnacion all going deep. And then in the 9th Colby and Jose back to back again to win this thing. The good: Darren Oliver gets the win. A great prize for his consistent excellence Defensive play by Escobar first inning. Lawrie single and home run first two at bats. Not good: First pitch swinging by the Jays hitters not good at all Fraser gives up grand slam in the 6th to give the lead back to Brewers. Seven walks by Jays pitchers. The by the way good news. Finally Yankees lose one, streak ends at 10. Now let’s have a losing streak and bring them back to the pack.