So me and my lookalike sat down at the Roger Centre and watched the Roberto Alomar ceremony together until he was asked to move back to his seat on the where are the Roberto Alomar bobble head day as the Jays announced that the first 20,000 fans would get them but at 11:40 this morning they were all gone and people were walking around with them outside of the Rogers centre while others were carrying stacks of them. So lets just say I was one of the 26,600 plus that did not get a bobble head as there were over 45,600 in the Rogers centre as Roberto Alomar and friends brought in the one of the biggest Jays crowd of the season and I thought there were more than that looking around as Kelly was there, Devo was there, Beeston was there but the biggest cheer other than Roberto Alomar coming through the crowd was for Cito and the surprise was that Sandy Alomar JR was unable to get out of his first base coaching duties with the suddenly back to earth with a bang Cleveland Indians so he had to record a video message instead.
It looked like the 1:37 start instead of 1:07 start messed with Brandon Morrow as the first 5 pitches he throw were all balls but after a conference with Jose (Molina and Bautista) he rided himself as he struck out 5 of the next 8 batters as he gave up another walk and a single while the only other out in the first two innings was a caught stealing of Endy Chavez. Then Morrow retired 10 in a row and 13 of 14 going into the sixth inning were he hit a wall head on after striking out the first two batters he faced he then gave up three straight hits including a RBI double to Michael Young and a RBI single to Mike Napoli before he struck out the side which was his 11 K of the game a season high for Morrow. Brandon Morrow ended up throwing 80 strikes in 115 pitches so after the first 5 pitches he throw 80 S and 30 B as he pitched 7 strong innings and gave up two runs on 6 hits and walked two to go with those 11 Ks. While Bullpen of Miller, Janssen, and Francisco all gave up a hit and Miller's hit scored to give the Rangers their third run of the game.
While the Jays offense was power by soon to be ex Blue Jay Edwin Encarnacion hit a two-run shot his 9 homer of the seasons while hitting into a double play as the Jays have Johnny Mac and Mark Teahen who replaced him in the eighth inning as infield replacements and Rajai Davis is the only outfield replacement with Eric Thames as the DH when Brett Lawrie comes up on Tuesday. While Colby Rasmus had his first two hits as a Blue Jay and got his first two RBIs on a two run double and J.P. had a RBI sing and Johnny Mac had a sac fly as the Jays won 7-3 as the Jays were 4 for 8 with runners in scoring position while the Jays scored 5 of their 7 runs with two outs in an inning.
So Toronto does not like the Steele town known as Hamilton so Josh Hamilton played left field for the Rangers and some fans rased him non-stop or at least until they got bored of it and then they went to Endy Chavez in center field and that lasted the rest of the game and the roof opening during warm-ups got peoples attention but the kids were frustrated as the players were not throwing the balls to them in the 100 level outfield seats and there was a much bigger crowd than usual screaming for a ball today.
The Jays really have problems with bigger crowds for some reason
Tom Mehegan
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