Brett Cecil got his career complete game and first ever major league shutout as he throw 122 pitches and gave up 3 hits and 2 walks while striking out six Ranger batters going the distance in a 3-0 Jays shutout of the Texas Rangers and the Jays finally win one of the three games in the series. The game was a real pitches duel over the first five innings as Rangers starter Alexi Ogando came into the game with a 7-1 home record this season and through five innings had only given up 3 hits and a walk while Brett Cecil had one upped him as he had only given up 2 hits over five innings.
Then in the top of the sixth the Jays got all their offense as Yunel Escobar singled which was his second hit on the night and then Jose Bautista had a RBI double which went with his first inning walk and then with two outs both Edwin Encarnacion and Travis Snider had RBI doubles and that was all the scoring in the game. The defensive play of the game was Jose Bautista's sliding catch with the extreme shift as he had moved from third base to shallow left field and made great catch sliding on the turf to record the first out in the bottom of the sixth. In the ninth inning Nelson Cruz after getting ahead on Cecil with the count being 3 and 1 and then he fouled off six straight pitches before grounded softly to Jose Bautista for an infield hit but then Cecil finished the game striking out Mike Napoli.
Now Cecil joins Romero as the only two pitchers to have a complete game this season
Tom Mehegan
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