Game 57 - 29 - 28 - J.P. hit a slam while Villanueva pitched well and pick up the win

The Jays came out with hot bats again as in the second inning Juan Rivera singled which was J. P. Arencibia reaches on a fielding error by Mark Reynolds @ third, and then Arron Hill singled in Juan Rivera to make it 1-0. Then Edwin Encarnacion hit into a double play and J.P. ended up on third which lead to a Zach Britton wild pitched J.P. into score the second run and Rajai Davis doubled but he was left there at the end of the inning and then in the third Yunel Escobar doubled to open the inning and with one out Juan Rivera had a sac fly to make it 3-0. In the fifth inning Zach Britton blow up really good with a walk on and 2 out which lead to Jose Bautista and then Juan Rivera walked to load the bases which brought J.P. Arencibia to the plate and he hit the Jays second grand slam in a week to give the Jays a 7-0 which was most of offense by the Jays as the Jays got 1 run on 4 hits in the last four inning.

Carlos Villanueva through the first four innings of the game had hit 2 batters and a walk and then in the fifth inning J.J. Hardy singled to open the inning and then Carlos Villanueva got the next 2 batters out and then Robert Andino, Felix Pie, and Adam Jones all singled and the Orioles scored 2 runs but Nick Markakis flied out to end the fifth. Then with Jeremy Accardo on the mound in the sixth after Edwin Encarnacion struck out Rajai Davis doubled and then after Jayson Nix struck out Yunel Escobar singled Davis in to get one of the runs that Orioles scored in the fifth back. In the bottom of the sixth Carlos Villanueva gave up singles to both Vladimir Guerrero and J.J. Hardy around a Matt Wieters fly out and Villanueva was out of the game and pitched his best performance as a Blue Jays starter with given up 2 runs on 6 hits with a walk and the Jays were leading 8-2 and Luis Perez got out of the inning without given up another run. With Jason Frasor in for the eighth and he did not start well as Matt Wieters singled and J.J. Hardy hit a 2-run homer to make it 8-4 but Frasor got the next 3 batters 1-2-3 where Marc Rzepczynski came in for the ninth inning and got the Orioles 1-2-3 and the Jays won 8-4 in the series opener with Ricky Romero pitching tomorrow night.

The Jays are playing good ball right now with very hot bats but there is Adam Lind and maybe Travis Snider around the corner and Brett Lawrie looks to be on the mind and will be up ASAP

Tom Mehegan