Friday, August 5, 2011

John Farrell is ejected from the game when he was clearly right in Brett Lawrie's MLB debut

So in his major league debut U got a little bit of everything out of Brett Lawrie and that included a RBI single as apart of his 2 for 4 game which as had his first strikeout but he did look like he was see the ball well standing at the plate. Then there was the defensive struggles as had two balls eating him up and he was charged an error as while start a double play he throw the ball too low for Arron Hill to get the runner at first and then he came out of nowhere to get to a ball and spin and throw to first which would of been close if he had not dragged Adam Lind of the base at first but most others just have to eat the ball. Adam Lind did save Brad mills's bacon to end the second inning as he made a difficult caught and stayed with the ball as he is just getting better and better at first. Then there was Brad Mills who gave up a two-run homer to Adam Jones in the first inning and even though his pitches were higher in the strike zone he only gave up 3 hits going into the sixth where he got the lead off batter looking at strike three and then he lost the strike zone as he walked Valdi on 5 pitches and Mark Reynolds (the second highest K guy in the american league) on 4 pitches and his final batter of the game Matt Wieters had a RBI single that deflected off Lawrie's glove. So Mills went 5.1 charged with 3 runs on 4 hits with 4 walks and 5 Ks and then Luis Perez came in and got both Nolan Reimold and Josh Bell to ground out which made it 4-3 Jays as Escobar had a RBI double in the second with Lawrie's RBI and then in the third Colby Rasmus had a RBI single and Arron Hill had a ground out to make it 4-2. Things got strange in the seventh when with a runner on first Robert Andino bunted Perez picked it up and while he throw it looked very close that Andino shoe made contract with Perez shoe and if it did not Andino was outside of the running lane and should of been automatically out but was called safe which brought John Farrell out to agrue and then he was tossed after lifting Perez for Jesse Litsch. In the top of the eighth inning Arron Hill gave the Jays an insurance with a sac fly and that would come in handy as in the bottom of the ninth Jon Rauch got Josh Bell and pitch hitter Felix Pie in order before given up a single to Andino which was followed by a RBI double hit by Nick Markakis but he finally got Adam Jones to pop out to Arron Hill behind third base to give Brad Mills his first win on the season and Jon Rauch ended up picking up his 11 save of the season.

So Lawrie had his ups and downs and probably more to come

Tom Mehegan

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