The ball was flying out of the Rogers Centre tonight starting with Pirates Alex Presley who hit his first of the season to give the Pirates a 2 - 0 lead in the top of the third and Edwin Encarnacion hit his first of two which was a solo shot in the bottom of the inning to make 2-1. The fourth inning the Pirates got some help from the blue Jays defense as with a Lyle Overbay single on Matt Diaz hit a ball in front of Eric Thames and it went over his head and Cory Patterson was too close to Thames that it went over his head too and all the way to the wall which lead to Overbay scoring and Diaz ended up with a triple. The next batter Garrett Jones grounded to Adam Lind to score Diaz but the problem was that Jo Jo Reyes did not cover first so Jones was safe and with runners on first and second Pirates Alex Presley came to the plate again and had a RBI single to give him 3 RBIs on the night and then with two outs Neil Walker had a RBI single to make it 6-1 as the Pirates batted around but it should of been 4-1 if Jo Jo covered first.
Back to the homers as the Jays third baseman Jose Bautista (in his first game at third this season) hit a two run homer to make it 6-3 in the fourth inning and it was his 24th of the season and then in the sixth inning the Jays Eric Thames got his second major league triple and Bautista reached on a throwing error to third baseman Chase d'Arnaud and Thames scored. While the next batter Adam Lind walked to put runners on first and second with no outs in a 6-4 game but Juan pop up to Lyle Overbay and then Arron Hill hit into a double play to end a promising inning but once again the Pirates went long with the ball in the seventh as Andrew McCutchen hit his 11th with one out to make it 7-4 and then in the bottom of the inning the Jays got back to back homers from Cory Patterson and Edwin Encarnacion to lead off the inning and the J.P. walked and Yunek Escobar hit a double and it was second and third with no outs and after Eric Thames had his first of two strike outs in the game Bautista was intentionally walked to load the bases. Which brought Adam Lind to the plate who screamed a ball to Lyle Overbay at first who got his glove up in self defense and caught the ball and stepped on first to end the inning instead of the Jays taken a run or two lead into the eighth inning. Then Pirates closer Joel Hanrahan came in to close the game down as he was 22 of 22 in save opportunities and only gave up a infield single to Escobar before Thames struck out swinging to end the game and give the Pirates game one.
Jo Jo in 3.2 innings pitched gave up 6 earned runs on 9 hits with a walk along with 5 Ks but it was Luis Perez who came into the game and pitched 3 innings and gave up 2 hits even though one of them was the solo shot to Andrew McCutchen who really settled things down for the Jays. Then the threesome of Dotel, Camp, and Rauch allowed the Jays the chance to win the game with 2.1 innings pitched of 1 hit shutout ball. For the Pirates Jose Veras had a great 1.2 where he face 5 batters and retired all of them to set it up for Joel Hanrahan.
Brandon Morrow is still looking for his first win at home this season tomorrow night
Tom Mehegan
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