Edwin Encarnacion ends the Jays home schedule as some fans are disappointed that the Players do not come out and say their good-byes

Edwin Encarnacion in the bottom of the 13th inning finally ends the Jays home portion of the schedule as he mashed his 17th homer of the season to give the Jays a 4-3 victory and a home record of 42 and 39 which is not a very good home record because if U want to be a contender U need to win 50 to 60 games at home like if I was at every game 65 or 66 wins because I went to 11 games and they were 9 and 2 in those games. It very long game and it was made even longer by the fact that the Jays took 8 walks and only one of them came around to score a run and that was Jose Bautista who scored on a wild pitch in the seventh inning to tie the game at 3 and Eric Thames had his 12 homer of the season mad it 3-2 in the seventh and Jose Bautista drove in an Eric Thames double to tie the game at 1 in the fifth. Henderson Alvarez pitched well kept pounding the strike zone with 65 S to 30 B 9 ground balls and 4 Ks made up 13 outs of the 21 he got over 7 innings and only 4 fly ball outs and of his 7 hits 2 ground balls and most of the rest were liners that Jays could not make the play and Mike McCoy made a big mistake as he came in a ball and with the third run going home instead went to first for out number two on a Torii Hunter hit and Howard Kendrick scored. The two big hits off Alvarez were a homer by Alberto Callaspo in the top of the second and a Howard Kendrick triple that scored the second run in the sixth inning.

So the Jays looked like they were not taken batting practice today as I got to my seats by 6:00 - 6:05 and nobody was batting at all and John Farrell was a little loosy goosy as in the bottom of the eighth inning he let Molina hit and then have J.P. pinch hit for right fielder Adam Loewen and in the top of the ninth for a defensive replacement he decided not to go with an outfielder like Mark Teahen and more surprisingly Dwayne Wise instead he choose to put DH Jose Bautista into right field. This meant the Jays would have to if and when the game went into extras to pinch hit every time the pitchers spot came up and it could have cost them dearly if the game went even longer and did not replace Molina for J.P. so that J.P. was only used as a pinch hitter which was a real waste.

In other news some fans were upset that the Jays did not come out and say their good-byes as it was their last home game of the season and the Jays are working overtime to try and get season ticket holders as they are offering a Jersey, 100 dollar Roger centre gift card, and that is to go with the usual meet and greets that go on.

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Tom Mehegan