So after having 29 appearances out of the bullpen and today Luis Perez had his first start and did not look out of place as he retired the first 15 batters and had a perfect game into the sixth inning with a running grab at his shoe top by Jose Bautista in the fourth inning and then he made a over the head catch in the fifth. Also in the fifth inning too the umpire was very nice to him as he got behind Conor Jackson with two outs 3 and 0 Jackson felt it was a four pitch walk so he started to first before the umpire made a call so he called a strike and then after a foul off Jackson took a high inside pitch and was called out of strikes. Then in the six Perez tank was empty and was fighting his pitches and walked Cliff Pennington to open the inning and broke up the the perfect game and then after Kurt Suzuki put down a bunt that was almost turned into a double play by Johnny Mac who replaced the struggling Yunel Escobar (2 for 26 on the road trip) and then Luis Perez walked Scott Sizemore. Then Jemile Weeks singled to Colby Rasmus lazily got on ball into the infield to load the bases (Bautista showed Rasmus in the ninth what can happen when U do not go all out) but Luis Perez got his eighth ground ball which was turned into an inning ending double play by started by Johnny Mac off the bat off Coco Crisp. Luis Perez throw 80 pitches in the game (his highest out of the pen was 64) and gave up a hit with 2 walks to go with 4Ks and Casey Janssen pitched the final 3 innings in no hit fashion striking out 5 batters and the most surprising thing in the game was Frank Francisco did not come out in the ninth and the TV broadcast even said that he was coming into the game put instead it Frank Francisco on the bench with his hands in his face when he knew the camera was on him and I guess he warmed up did not feel well.
A's pitcher Guillermo Moscoso pitched well as well as his 3 hitter against the Jays a week and a half ago and after the lead off hitter in the game Arron Hill got a single the game had to wait until the sixth when we saw Coco Crisp do his first of two lost the ball in the sun and lazily go after it as Eric Thames ended up with a double and then Moscoso buckled down and Thames did not get to third base. Then he gave up his third hit on the game which came on the tenth pitch to Jose Bautista slammed his 36th homer to stay in the lead in homers and gave the Janssen all the support he need and he also barely missed a Bautista home run target. Guillermo Moscoso left after 8 innings and gave up a run on 3 hits and a walk to with 7Ks and was created with the loss and Perez was the winner and Janssen got his second save on the season with a 1-0 Jays win.
In the ninth Arron Hill ran out a ball and was safe at first but was called out but he still had one of his better days and then Coco Crisp lost a Bautista fly ball in the sun and with his lazily going after the ball attitude Bautista ended up with a triple.
Jays come home to face the Royals on Tuesday after a winning road trip
Tom Mehegan
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