The M's hit back-to-back homers to spoil Brett Lawrie home coming

Mike Carp which came off Trevor Miller and Casper Wells which came off Jon Rauch went back to back in the eighth inning to give the M's a 6-5 win and Brandon League had his 30 save but at least we have Brandon Morrow.

Brett Lawrie in his real home coming in Seattle really put butts in the seats as there were over 28,000 fans in the seats and he did not disappoint the fans as he rocked M's starter Michael Pineda in his second at bat he hit his third homer and it gave the Jays a 5-4 lead while his parents were really happy and high fifing everyone. The Jays got homers on their first 3 hits as Eric Thames hit his 8th homer on the season with Yunel Escobar walk on in the first and then Adam Lind hit his 21st homer with Jose Bautista's walk on base and the third was Lawrie's homer. While the M's came back every time as they put up 3 runs on 2 hits with a walk and a hit batter in the second as Trayvon Robinson had a RBI double as Eric Thames could not figure out to see the ball and got a late break and then struggled see the ball as he was turning around to find the ball again on his way to the wall where the ball tipped off Thames glove. The M's also got Jack Wilson a RBI single and Ichiro had a sac fly to give the M's a 3-2 lead and with the Jays up 4-3 in the the third Mike Carp hit his first of two homers on the game and this one was off Jays rookie starting pitcher Henderson Alvarez to tie the game at 4 all.

Henderson Alvarez pitched into the sixth inning and gave up four runs with 6 hits and a walk and 3Ks with the hit batter and he throw 96 pitches (62 s - 34 b) and then Jesse Litsch pitched 2 inning one hitter to get into the eighth inning. Michael Pineda pitched 5 innings and gave up 5 runs on 6 hits while walking 4 batters and 6Ks and then the bullpen finished strong with four innings of 3 hitter but Bautista still had a chance to keep the game going with Thames on first and grounded out to end the game.

It was surprising that Brett Lawrie struck out twice in the game and that there were 6 homers hit in the pitchers park in Seattle and Safeco Field gives up 1.36 a game which the second lowest number in the AL as only the ball park in Oakland McAfee Coliseum has given up less with a 1.25 average.

So it is sad that the Jays lost this game and will need a good performance from Brad Mills tomorrow night

Tom Mehegan