Brett Cecil hurt by the long ball while Lawrie brings a few thousand more fans into the stands

Brett Cecil was moving nicely through the A's line-up as he retired the first 8 batters he faced and even was ahead 1-0 as Edwin Encarnacion hit his 10th homer of the season to lead off the second inning and headed into the sixth inning given up a hit, two walk, and even hit Josh Willingham and he got amazing defense behind him in the fifth inning as Brett Lawrie had a diving stop and put out while Yunel Escobar had a leaping catch. Then just like in his last outing Brett Cecil was destroyed by the long ball as with a Cliff Pennington single on and one out Josh Willingham came to plate and said nobody hits me and gets away with it as he gave the A's the lead 2-1 with two-run homer his 18th of the season and then in the seventh Kurt Suzuki lead off the inning his 10th of the season to make it 3-1. Brett Cecil ended the inning and pitched 7 innings and gave up 3 runs on 4 hits with 5Ks and 2 walks while Canadian A's starting Rich harden pitched his best game against the Blue Jays as after Encarnacion homer he only faced two batters above the minimum facing 17 batters to get 15 outs to get into the seventh and the Jays got a walk and a single to lead off the inning so they had runners on the corners but Harden got Hill to pop up and both J.P. and Lawrie to strike out and he left the game given up a run on 5 hits along with 8Ks and 2 walks. The A's got another run when Ryan Sweeney had a RBI single in the top of the ninth inning and then in the bottom of the inning Andrew Bailey came in and he started out throwing 5 straight balls to open the inning including walking Encarnacion who was the first ever Blue Jay to reach base against him in his 7.1 innings he had pitched against the Jays in his career and then he got Colby Rasmus flied out, Arron Hill flied out, and J.P. struck out to end the game to give Harden his first ever win against the Blue Jays.

Yunel Esccobar and Edwin Encarnacion had two hits each while Eric Thames and Colby Rasmus had the other hits as Colby now has a 6 game hit streak and for the A's Kurt Suzuki had two hits as well. On another note Brett Lawrie had bit of a spike on attendance as there were over 20,600 when an A's mid-week game would usually have between 11,000 - 12,000 so that is a jump of 8 to 9 thousand.

Lets see if the Jays can even the series

Tom Mehegan