So Tim Hudson did everything for the Atlanta Braves tonight as through 8 innings he allowed Jays player to get a ball and into the outfield and it was happened in the second inning with a runner on first and second with two outs, as J.P. had the only hit before the ninth in the second inning along with a throwing error on first baseman Freddie Freeman, and Jayson Nix in a scoreless game hit a fly ball to Jason Heyward to end the inning. He retired 20 straight batters in a row after J.P. hit and before we got to the ninth inning he picked up a bat in the bottom of the 7 inning and it came right after David Ross got a single and on s Yunel Escobar throw into the camera bay for an error moved him into scoring position in a scoreless game and was moved to third on a ground ball by Nate McLouth but on a Diory Hernandez ground ball David Ross was cut down at the plate. This brought Tim Hudson to the plate with a runner on first with two outs and Blue Jays starter Ricky Romero got careless with a fastball down the heart of the plate and on contact everyone knew where it was going especially Romero who turned around and put his head down as he knew he had made a horrible mistake as the ball landed in the outfield seats for Hudson's second career homer a two-run shot to give the Braves all the runs of the game as they won 2-0.
Leading into the ninth inning Hudson faced 26 batters his line broke down like this 17 ground balls, 8 Ks, and a fly ball and busiest player on the field was former Jays shortstop Alex Gonzalez who collected 9 ground balls and throw them all to Freeman at first for 9 outs going into the ninth inning. While Ricky Romero was a good but his breaking pitches were not working as well as they had during his last outing against the Orioles but over his 7 innings pitched and he gave up 6 hits, 2 walks, and hit a batter and he throw 60 % strikes in the game.
So with the game 2-0 @ the beginning of the ninth inning Hudson gave up his Mike McCoy walked and Yunel Escobar singled through the infield for the second Jays hit of the game and that was it for Hudson. The Braves brought in their closer Craig Kimbrel who came in with 19 saves and 55 Ks in 36 innings pitched and he struck out Patterson and then followed that up by a strike out Bautista who still does not look comfortable and finally Adam Lind came to the plate and got the best swings off of Kimbrel but in the end he still was stuck out to end the game as Kimbrel struck out all three Jays he faced.
Lets see if Zach Steward can even the 3 game series and lets hope the Jays get more than 2 hits off of Mike Minor who has pitched 16.1 innings with 11 Ks and a 0-1 record in his last 3 starts
Tom Mehegan
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