So one year ago today Roy Halladay had his regular season no hitter and John Danks was far from this in the first inning as he throw jaw dropping 51 pitches in the inning and the Jays sent 10 batters to the plate and it was an inning of firsts for the Jays as with one out Arron Hill came to the plate with bases juiced and hit Danks 31 pitch over the wall for his first homer of the season and first major league Grand Slam. It was followed by Edwin Encarnacion coming to the plate and hit his first homer on his season and it was the third time this season that the Jays have gone back-to-back with homers and then later in the inning Jayson Nix came to the plate with a 0 for 22 streak going and the Jays third basemen came into the game with a 0 for 44 streak and Jayson Nix looped the ball to the feet of Alex Rios to break the o fors. The Jays got 6 runs on 6 hits and a walk as 10 batters came to the plate including a RBI single from Jose Bautista.
The Jays had some great defensive plays from Jayson Nix with a diving catch in the first to take a hit away from Alexei Ramirez and then Rajai Davis stole a multi RBI opportunity from Brent Lillibridge just before he hit the wall and the two runners had to go back and could not advance to the next base. Also Arron Hill flashed the leather and caught a line drive by Alexei Ramirez and Brent Morel in the fifth inning. The Chisoxs scored a run(s) in the first and ninth innings when Carlos Quentin hit a solo homer in first and two-run homer in the ninth and in the third Paul Konerko singled in Juan Pierre for their only 2 runs throw the first four innings.
In the bottom of the fourth inning Rajai Davis got hit by a pitch and after Nix ground out he stole third base and it was followed by a single by Yunel Escobar to drive him in and Cory Patterson followed by hitting his 4 homer on the season. Then Jose Bautista came to the plate and misses a pitch and pops to short and Bautista slammed his bat in frustration and as Bautista walked back to the dugout he and Danks chirped at each other and it could of been more then that but instead Bautista just continued to the dugout. So by this time the game was a laugher @ 9-2 but the Jays got 3 more in the fifth which was dominated by a two-run double by Jayson Nix and the Jays were up 12-2 and Bautista took a seat on the bench for the last 4 innings and the Jays got a finally run in the sixth when J.P. singled in Juan Rivera as the Jays hammered the Chisoxs and I could just imagine the sound bites after this game from Ozzie Guillen who has been ripping into his team all weekend. For the Chisoxs Adam Dunn still is looking for his first hit against a left-handed pitcher as he is now o for 38 this season and is hitting .181 this season.
Ricky Romero had a good outing given up 2 runs on 6 hits and 2 walks along with 5 Ks in 7 innings and lets hope the Jays can put up some runs up for Jo Jo tomorrow as he has a few good games this season and deserves his first win as a starter in almost 3 years as the Jays are welcoming in the Tribe who have an AL leading 31-19 record but is coming in with a 12-13 road record compared to their 19-6 home record.
Lets see if the Jays can win 4 in a row
Tom Mehegan
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