Oakland A's (0-4) Vs Toronto Blue Jays (3-1)
To start Jose Bautista is not with the team at the moment as he is dealing with some family matters and may not rejoin the team until after this series with the A's is finished.
So in the Top 10th inning Jason Frasor comes in and the first batter he faced was Josh Willingham and the first pitch he throws him is a no doubter home run to give the A's a 6-5 lead and then Frasor gives up a single but ends up striking out the side. So in the bottom of the 10th Rajai Davis got a single to open up the inning and with his threat to stealing A's closer Grant Balfour throws the next hitter Yunel Escobar a heater down the middle of plate at Yunel turned and drove to deep center field where Coco Crisp goes back to the fence jumps and unlike Span for the Twins could not make the grab and he ended up lying face first on the turf as the Jays win 7-5.
The game started quietly as it was no score after 2 innings but Jo Jo reyes gave up lead off double to Andy LaRoche so it looked like he would be in trouble except that Coco Crisp hits a hard ball onto the ground and Arron Hill drives and gets him out at first and then he struck out Daric Barton. Then it looked like he would get out without giving up a run but Conor Jackson doubled to make it 1-0 and then Mark Ellis drove him with a double 2-0 and then David DeJesus drove in Josh Willingham to make it 3-0 A's after 3 innings. Jo Jo Reyes only got Daric Barton in the fourth as Kevin Kouzmanoff hit a double to lead off and Andy LaRoche singled him in to make it 4-0 and then Josh Willingham sac fly made it 5-0 and then the 11,077 in attendance had something to cheer about when Arron Hill hit a ball to second and Lind was out but Yunel Escobar scored to make it 5-1. Then in the 6 inning Rajai Davis doubled to open up the inning and Lind hit a ball down the third baseline and third baseman Kevin Kouzmanoff caught it but Davis scored to make it 5-2 when hill singled home Yunel Escobar to make it 5-3 and then Edwin Encarnacion doubled in Arron Hill to 5-4 which brought us to Snider grounding out to drive in Juan Rivera to tie the game at 5.
The A's pitcher Brandon McCarthy pitched 8 innings and gave up 5 runs (4 earned) on 8 hits with 2 strike outs and walk while Jo Jo Reyes was hurt big time by the doubles as he gave up 5 doubles on his 9 hits given up in 4.1 innings pitched so lets hope Brandon Marrow gets back soon. Also you have to like the no quite in the Jays bats so it looks like the Jays will not be out of a game at least at this time which is awesome to see but its scary that the crowds are back to the way they were last season lets hope its a blimp not what is going to happen this season.
The odds on favorite in the West Oakland (1-3), the odd on favorite in the central Minnesota (2-3), and the odds on favorite in the East Boston (0-4) so it is really early
Tom Mehegan
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