Game 106 - 54 - 52 - J.P. powers the Jays with all their offense while Lawrie is around the next corner

After Brett Cecil and Alexi Ogando five days ago in Arlington where Cecil had a four hit complete game shutout and Alexi Ogando gave up three RBI doubles in the sixth inning and tonight started a little different as The Rangers had 5 hits and a walk including a Nelson Cruz solo homer but he was taken out with an injury after striking out in next at bat through four innings. On the other hand the Jays had a double and two walks including the first time Colby Rasmus reached base as a Jay with a walk in the bottom of the fourth but that all changed in the bottom of the fifth this time when Alexi Ogando gave up back- to - back singles to Arron Hill and Travis Snider to lead the inning off which brought the ninth hitter in the Jays lineup to the plate in J.P. who had three homers in Arlington last weekend and just hit another homer which was his 17th on the season to make it 3-1 Jays after five. The Jays had only an Edwin Encarnacion single the rest of the way and the Rangers had 5 more hits during this time but the Rangers got only another solo homer from Blue Jay for a split second Mike Napoli and it was his 14th of the season to lead off the ninth inning with Jon Rauch pitching and he only gave up one more single to the next batter Mitch Moreland but Rauch retired the three batters in order to save his ninth game as the Jays won 3-2.

Brett Cecil went seven innings and gave up seven hits and struck out six Rangers and walked one and only gave up a single run and throw 94 pitches and 63 for strikes while Alexi Ogando pitched 5.2 innings and gave up three runs on four hits with four walks while also striking out four Jays and throw 103 pitches and 62 for strikes.

Other than the bottom three of the order having three straight hits in the fifth the only other two hits came from Encarnacion who is really hearing the footsteps of Brett Lawrie as it is likely either him or Rajai will be sent for assignment next week when Lawrie makes his major league debut most likely Tuesday. Talking about Blue Jays making a debut Brad Mills will finally get a start tomorrow against the Rangers and it is well deserved as he has been the Blue Jays best pitcher in Las Vegas for most of this season.

The Jays try to go three over 500 @ home and on the season tomorrow

Tom Mehegan