Vernon well taught the Jays a lession while Brett Lawrie's rookie season comes to screeching finale

Even though the Jays have 8 games left after tonight Brett Lawrie already into the off season as fractured his middle finger of his right throwing hand as was taken so ground balls during batting practice before tonight's game. The Jays missed him dearly as the bases were loaded with two outs in the third inning and his spot came up and J.P. was in it and on the first pitch he saw and grounded out to end the inning. Dustin McGowan pitched 5 innings and gave up 2 runs on 5 hits and he had a great 8Ks with his curve ball which was his strike out pitch and his Nemesis was Peter Bourjos who tripled to open the third and after Mike McCoy made a fantastic play off a ground ball by Jeff Mathis and held Bourjos at third and getting Mathis out at first but then Maicer Izturis had a RBI single. Then Bourjos hit his 12 homer in the fifth inning which gave the Angels a 2-0 lead and when McGowan left Vernon took over the game when he had Alberto Callaspo intentionally walked to load the bases to get to him and singled through the infield off Jesse Litsch for two RBIs in the sixth and in the eighth he had his 24 homer off Casey Janssen which was a two run blast to give him four BRIs in the game.

The Angles sent Dan Harden to the mound and he pitched well through eight innings and only gave up 4 hits and 4Ks along with two walks and he gave up a huge solo shot from Eric Thames that was a 200 level shot for his 11 homer to lead off the sixth inning and he left on a bad note as he got hit on his left arm on a scorching line dive by Eric Thames. I think that Dan Harden would be a great role model for the Blue Jays pitchers and the Jays should trade for him and maybe the Angels might be interested in Jose Bautista and if so it might be a good trade for both teams.

Kelly Johnson doubled in Adam Loewen in the ninth inning after Jose Bautista singled and was replaced by Loewen and the final score was 7-2 Angels and the story throughout the game was would Adam Lind have to leave the game as his wife was nearby in a hospital expecting their first children at any moment but stayed in the game for the whole game.

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Tom Mehegan