Brett Cecil started on fire as he stuck out Span, Nishioka, and Young 1,2,3 to start the game and then went 1,2,3 in the second inning so the # 7 hitter in the Twins line-up Danny Valencia got a 2-1 count and Cecil throw a meaty pitch over the plate and he turned on it and crushed it into the stands and the Twins lead 1-0. In the bottom of the fourth Nishioka throw the ball away as he throw to first and Adam Lind scored an unearned run to tie the game at 1 and then the wheels came completely off for Brett Cecil as he gave up 5 hits in the inning and Cecil was own worst enemy when got a ground ball pack to the mound and he looked to third first before looking at first wear the runner was safe and Travis Snider gunned Danny Valencia down at the plate and Bautista catch the ball another time and the runner at third took a step towards home but went back to the base. The end result was that Brett Cecil gave up 5 hits and one walk and only gave up 2 runs in the innings and the Jays were lucky to only be down 3-1 after 4 and then in the 5 inning Brett Cecil struggled again but had a double play after the lead off hitter got on base with a walk and then Jose Bautista hit a homer to open the 6th inning as he hit a bomb down the line on the first pitch he saw from Nick Blackburn to make it 3-2 twins. Then it came down to the 9th inning when Jon Rauch came out of the bullpen to introduced himself to over 35,000 in attendance and got ahead of Twins lead-off hitter Span with a strike but the second pitch he throw to Span Rauch and the over 35,000 would like to have back as Span crushed it to make it 4-2. Then Joe Nathan made his first appearance since 2009 and he was shaky at best as J.P. was up first and he smocked the ball but Span after hitting the extra run he jumped up at the fence to bring it back and then Travis Snider got a base hit and Mike McCoy hit a hit and took a chance for a double and just made it safely and Yunel Escobar had a sac fly to make it 4-3 and then Juan Rivera and Jose Bautista got back to back walks to load the bases where Adam Lind hit the ball to first and it was over 4-3 Twins.
The story of the game was the 2 errors by Edwin Encarnacion and especially the second of them when he had a ball hit hard right back to him and he had it tip of his glove and went down the line in the 9th inning. He also had a throwing error that handcuffed Lind at first as he throw it to Lind's right and if it had been to his left Lind would of been destroyed by the the runner and could of been securely injured and now the John Farrell has his first huge decision to make and it is who will replace Edwin Encarnacion at third and right now it should be like Johnny Mac or use move Bautista to third and Rivera to Right. The thing that surprised me the most is that this team has captured the imagination of the city for the weekend at least because almost 49,000 fans on Friday is expected as even the Expos sold out the big O for opening day but 27,000 on Saturday is impressive while over 35,000 today for Bautista bubble head is completely amazing and even the Jay Brass could not even imagine over 110,000 fans for the opening series.
Lets see what happens next
Tom Mehegan
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