Ricky Romero has an outstanding performance against the Rays

So David Price came into the game with a 8-0 record with an ERA of 1.99 against the Jays in his 9 career games against the Jays and last night Price was turned on his ear as it Ricky Romero who had the one hitter through eight innings as only Desmond Jennings got a hit off him as he hit a homer to lead off the sixth inning. The only reason Ricky Romero did not start the ninth inning is because he walked 4 batters and he even walked the first two batters in the second inning and followed that up by hitting the third batter of the inning but then he struck out Matt Joyce and Kelly Shoppach before getting Sean Rodriguez to ground out to Jose Bastista who flipped the ball to second to get the force out to end the inning.

The game did not have its first hit until the fourth inning when Bautista stepped to the plate and hit his first homer off of Price in his career and his first homer since July 9 and it gave him 32 on the season and gave the Jays a 1-0 lead. In the top of the sixth Yunel Escobar lead off with his 10th homer of the season to give the Jays a 2-0 lead and then with the score 2-1 Rajai Davis had a RBI double to make it 3-1 and Brett Lawrie's like wondering when someone be designated for assignment so he can come up and be a big leaguer and it was looking like with Encarnacion's troubles that it could of not happened soon enough but Encarnacion has smartened up and realized he likes the big league chaque and is now playing like a major league player so it might be a farewell to Mark Teahan that gets Lawrie his chance.

So of course with 17 blown saves by the Blue Jays bullpen that with the two-run lead it would be nail bitten time and it was just that as Jon Rauch came in and got the first two batters to fly out Colby Rasmus in center field but then Casey Kotchman had a looping single over Escobar's head and that was followed up with a single by B.J. Upton and with Kotchman running on contact the winning run was at the plate in Matt Joyce and runners on the corners but then thankfully Joyce flied out to Travis Snider to end the game.

Ricky Romero has pitched 16.1 innings over his last two starts and has only given up a run on 5 hits during those two Jays wins and Ricky is really turning up his focus and its like his he does not give the batter a free pass he will get the batter out one way or another. Edwin Encarnacion had one of the jays 6 hits while Rajai Davis had two of those hits including a RBI double and the Jays are 1/2 game out of first heading into tonight's game.

Go Jays Go (got the PC fixed)

Tom Mehegan