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Ricky Romero had some nervousness as he could not throw strikes in the first inning as he walked Jimmy Rollins on 6 pitches and in his 19 first inning pitches he throw 9 balls and 10 strikes but did not give up a run and in the bottom of the inning Yunel Escobar got hit by the third pitch of the game from Kyle Kendrick of the Phillies and then had to leave the game for Arron Hill who was supposed to have the game off. Then with one out Jose Bautista had a ground-rule double and then with two outs Edwin Encanacion had a 2 run double to open the scoring and in the third inning the Phillies got on the board when Ben Francisco had a RBI double to cut the Jays lead in half as the Jays lead 2-1. In the third inning the Phillies Shane Victorino tied up the game with a RBI single but it stayed that way until the bottom of the fifth inning where Eric Thames continued his power dominance as he hit a 2-run homer which his second homer in three game and it gave the Jays a 4-2 lead and Carlos Ruiz had a RBI single in the sixth inning and then in the seventh inning Shane Victorino had a RBI triple and then Ben Francisco had a RBI sac fly to give the Phillies a 5-4 lead. Then in the bottom of the inning Jose Bautista hit his 25th homer of the season which was a 2-run homer to give the Jays a 6-5 lead but Frank Francisco had a huge problem closing the game out as he walked Placido Polanco and then Juan Rivera missed read a ball off the bat of Chase Utley which should of been the first out but instead it was a double and then Ryan Howard had a two-run single to give the Phillies a 7-6 lead. Marc Rzepczynski came in and did not allow a run with the two batters he faced as Domonic Brown ground to Bautista and Carlos Ruiz ground out to Johnny Mac to give the Jays a chance to come back but Phillies closer faced Rajai Davis, Johnny Mac, and Arron Hill and he tired them 1-2-3 to close out the game.
The Jays had a really good chance to win the opener but it just was not meant to be even though Thames and Bautista both homered in the same game for the first time and hopefully they will begin to be a huge power plant along side Adam Lind to make the middle of the lineup a terror for the rest of the league. While the bottom of the order of like Edwin Encarnacion, Rajai Davis, and the third baseman are the worst bottom of the order in the majors so the Jays are going to be around the 500 make until Brett Lawrie or Travis Snider come up and some of these guys are sent packing like Encarnacion and Rajai Davis or Cory Patterson.
The Jays had a huge crowd of over 45,000 fans in the stands and it will not be the biggest crowd of the weekend and it will end up to be 110 - 120 thousand for the weekend series.
Down on the farm Kyle Drabek had a 1 run on 6 hits in the 6 innings pitched with 3 Ks and most importantly did not walk a batter. The problem with Drabek is that in his last 2 starts he has pitched 4.2 inning where he gave up 10 runs (9 earned runs) on 12 hits and walked 10 batters and struck out 4 batters so it may ended up being a while until he gets his stuff straighten out. Also on the farm Travis Snider took his first 4 at bats in two weeks and went 0 for 3 with a walk but in the end Travis Snider is learning to play center field and maybe back in a week or longer so when he comes back he will be the starting center fielder so Rajai maybe the first to go.
Roy pitching tomorrow in front of almost 50,000 fans
Tom Mehegan
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