Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Brandon Morrow was unable to leave the field under his own power

Brandon Morrow pitched extremely well as he pitched 6.1 and k'd 8 O's and he gave up 2 walks along with a run on 4 hits and he gave up two of his four hits in the second inning along with a RBI single to Ryan Flaherty and then was untouchable until the seventh inning as gave up one hit and hitting Adam Jones in the hand over the next four innings as he retired 10 straight batters. When it came to the seventh inning the four and finally hit he gave up was hurt him hard as it was a laser hit up the middle by Wilson Betemit that hit Morrow on his right shin and tried to walk it off but was unable to walk off the field under his own power and took the air out of the 4-1 victory to sweep away the O's. He sent for X-rays on his right shin and it came back negative which is good but of course he is now day to day and that worries me until he is on a mound pitching in the majors and it could be Wednesday or Thursday of next week but with the shin contusion on his right leg it could be a couple of weeks until he gets on a mound and a couple of appearances in double A and it could be a month. This is because day-to-day is slang for I don't know how long it will take and in Toronto these things drag on a very long time. The Jays hitters crushed the O's Jason Hammel who actually pitched further into the game as he got two outs in seventh but he came in given up 3 homers in 55 innings and tonight in his outing he gave up 4 solo homers to Edwin Encarnacion (second inning), Rajai Davis (third inning), Brett Lawrie (fourth inning), and Colby Rasmus (fifth inning) and the first three were lead off homers while Rasmus hit his with one out. The Jays collected 9 hits off him with Omar Visquel and Encarnacion picking up two each in the game as Escobar was the only Jays not to reach base as Bautista with 0 for 2 but had two walks in the game. Casey Janssen picked up another save (5 on the season) as he gave up a walk that was erased on some great fielding at first by Encarnacion who stepped on the bag for one and throw down to second to get Adam Jones whose hit streak ends at 20 games. The Jays ended up getting over 52 thousand for the series which is four or five thousand more than they would usually get for a mid-week series Tom Mehegan

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