Saturday, April 7, 2012
Brandon Morrow starts the season right but the Jays have to wait for extras for the win
Brandon Morrow had an outstanding pitching in his first start of the 2012 Blue Jays season as he went 7 innings and gave up only one hit which was hit long and hard by Jason Kipnis who hit it into the stands for a two-run homer in the bottom of the five inning which was right after Casey Kotchman who reached on a throwing error by J.P. Arencibia who throw wild of Adam Lind at first and pulled him off the base. The only problem that Ubaldo Jimenez was just that much better as he did not allow a runner to reach base until the eighth inning when Kelly Johnson walked and then Adam Lind walked and when Jimenez throw a wild pitch to move up to second and third and then Brett Lawrie got the Jays first and only hit off him which was a two-run single to tie up the game and he also only gave up the two walks while Morrow gave up three.
In the ninth inning Joe Smith came in for the ninth and the first batter he faced was Kelly Johnson and Kelly Johnson just got enough of the ball to get it over Michael Brantley glove and into the stands and then Jose Bautista got hit with a pitch and went first to third on a two out Brett Lawrie single but Thames was final out of the inning. Then Sergio Santos came in for his first save appearance of the season and he only throw one bad pitch which created a blown save as Asdrubal Cabrera who parked it into the stands as he left up high and it sent the to extras as it was tied at 3-all.
Casey Janssen came in and pitched a perfect tenth and eleventh and then in the 12th inning the Jays got him the lead as Edwin Encarnacion doubled to open the inning and then Brett Lawrie got his third straight hit another single while going o for the season before that and Rajai Davis who came in to pitch hit for Eric Thames in the 9th came up with a two-run double to put the Jays up 5-3 and then he stole third and Colby Rasmus singled him home to make it 6-3. Kelly Johnson cashed in Rasmus with a single and the Jays are 2-0 in extras as Francisco Cordero came in and finished it off 7-4.
Jays are finding ways to comeback late in games and that is a great sign
Tom Mehegan
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