The Blue Jays were in seventh heaven

In the seventh inning with the Blue Jays down 5-3 the Jays batters took out their nine irons and drove the ball deep off Orioles starter Tommy Hunter as David Cooper drove his second career homer out of the park to lead off the inning which was followed by JP driving one 400 feet only to have center fielder Matt Angle make a leaping catch to take away extra bases at least and finally the next batter Adam Loewen drove a ball out as well his first career homer and the game was tied at 5. Tommy Hunter would give up a double to Mike McCoy and a single to Eric Thames before leaving the game and he ended up given up 3 runs on four hits in the seventh and he had only given up 3 runs (1 earned) on 5 hits over his first 6 innings on the mound and was credited with the loss when Willie Eyre on a 1 - 1 count Bautista hit a sac fly to center field to score Mike McCoy and give the Jays a 6-5 win and Frank Francisco picked up his 14 save in 17 games and I am very scared he will still be on the Jays next season.

So the Jays picked up two unearned runs in the first when the first Jay Hunter faced Mike McCoy bunted down the first baseline and should of been easy pickings for Mark Reynolds but instead Reynolds must of thought he was playing third (he has close to 25 errors over at third this season) and had the ball go off his glove into foul territory where McCoy and Reynolds drove for the first base bag and McCoy got there first. McCoy would eventually score on a RBI single by Jose Bautista and with two outs Thames scored on a Brett Lawrie ground out to take a 2-1 lead and the Jays took a 3-2 lead in the third when Adam Lind hit a RBI single to score Mike McCoy.

Dustin McGowan started his first game since July 8th, 2008 against these same Orioles and he had a hard time finding the plate to some Oriole batters as he walked 5 of them and four of them came back to score and when he got ahead of hitters he was not able to finish them off as they had foul ball after foul ball and that really worked up his pitch total to 75 over three innings where he gave up only three hits but his 5 walks worked up his balls to strike ratio of 36 ball - to - 39 strikes. When Carlos Villanueva and Shawn Camp came in they kept the walks going as they walked 3 (Carlos 1, Camp 2) and one of Shawn Camps walks came around to score which meant that every run the Orioles scored came off of a walk and the Jays pitchers walked 9 and gave up 7 hits. The Jays bullpen of Joel Carreno (who picked up the win), Casey Janssen, and Frank Francisco did not give up a hit in the final three innings of the game with Frank being the only pitcher of the three to walk a batter and the Jays won the season series 12 to 6 against the Orioles.

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Tom Mehegan