Carlos Villanueva had his shortest outing as a starter for the Blue Jays and may like Brain Tallet a few seasons back may have hit the mental wall and maybe be taken out of the starting rotation and may be shutdown for a week or so and then be brought back to be a 2 or 3 inning guy out of the bullpen. Tonight Villanueva gave up 8 runs on 9 hits in 2.2 inning pitched and throw 69 pitches and he did K a guy and he did go 1-2-3 in the first and then in the second the Rays had 3 bunts in the inning including RBI bunt single by both Sean Rodriguez and Robinson Chirinos along with a sac fly RBI by Johnny Damon while Ben Zobrist lead off with his 15th homer of the season and the Rays lead 4-0. Then after J.P.'s 18th homer of the season got the Jays on the board but then Rays starter James Shields only gave up a walk to bautista between J.P. leading off the third and two outs in the seventh when an Arron Hill single which made it really tough to get back into the game especially after given up 4 more runs in the bottom of the third and it was lead by Robinson Chirinos first ever major league homer which was a three-run shot and he ended up with his first ever four RBIs in his career. It was 8-1 with 2 outs in the third inning when Jesse Litsch came in to strike out Johnny Damon and it was the start of a string of retiring 10 straight batters to riding the ship and took into the seventh and will most likely replace Villanueva in the starting rotation. The pitching star of the game was Shields who made sure the Blue Jays would not leave Tampa in third in the AL east as he pitched 7.1 inning and gave up a run on 3 hits while walking three and striking out six Blue Jays and Robinson Chirinos had a great game with his first homer and four RBIs in his big league career.
So Brett Cecil maybe able to send the Jays to Baltimore on a winning note
Tom Mehegan
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