Monday, April 30, 2012
Yu was almost untouchable against the Jays
Yu Darvish was almost untouchable as he came across the boarder and faced the Toronto Blue Jays as he only gave up 4 hits and 2 walks as he fooled a number of Blue Jays hitters as he k'd 9 of them in his 7 innings on the mound by mixing up his pitches and keeping the Jays hitters guessing what was coming. The only guy to figure him out was Edwin Encarnacion who had half of the Jays off Darvish and was the first hitter in the major leagues to hit a homer off him and it happened in the fourth inning and it is the fourth day in the a roll that Edwin has hit a homer and ended the month of April with 8 homers and 21 RBIs.
Darvish was countered by Kyle Drabek who pitched 6 innings and for the most part he was in control of the Rangers bats as he gave up 5 hits and 2 walks and k'd 8 batters and his only problems were that 3 of the five hits found gaps in the outfield for two runs and they ended up being doubles. In the second inning he gave up doubles to Adrian Beltre and Nelson Cruz which brought in Beltre for the Rangers first run and in the fourth Elvis Andrus doubled home an Ian Kinsler walk to make it 2-0 Rangers.
Drabek pitched well enough to keep the Jays close and left with Rangers leading 2-1 and Adrian Beltre and Elvis Andrus both two hits off him but then Evan Crawford came in and faced two batters battled both Mitch Moreland and Craig Gentry but in the end it was the same result as both took him deep for homer to start the seventh as they went back to back and gave the Rangers the Cushion of 4-1 and was enough to win the game.
The Rangers bullpen of Mike Adams and Joe Nathan a pitched a perfect inning each and Nathan picked up his 6 save of the season and helped Yu to become the first Rangers pitcher to start 4-0 since 1988 and he added a couple thousand to the attendance which was over 21 thousand.
Jays turn to Drew Hutchison to even the series at 1
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