Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Brett Lawries's over the top personality cost the error filled Jays

In the bottom of the ninth Brett Lawrie looked like he had never played professional baseball in his life as on a 3 and 1 count on a ball way off the plate he is already fair'foul chalk line heading down to first base before the Ump makes the call and of course U do not show up the Ump so it is called a strike. So Brett Lawrie gets another chance to get on base as the tying run in a 4-3 Rays lead but he did not learn his lesson as Fernando Rodney throw a pitch maybe a little high but Lawrie took a step towards first and the ump with a lot of emotion in his strike three call and Lawrie when he heard he was called out he turned around and got into the ump's face and was thrown out of the game and then throw his helmet into the ground and it came up and hit the ump's butt and it will cost him some money and maybe a game. I hope this will be a learning moment for him and hopefully next time he will be a little bit more patience and wait for the ump to make the call before leaving the batter's box. The Jays had a great third inning started by Rajai Davis who started the inning with a single and on an error by Elliot Johnson who throw the ball away moved into second and this was after he gunned down Ben Zobrist to end the top of the inning. Then the Jays got two great two out hits starting with a RBI single by Jose Bautista and that was followed by Edwin Encarnacion 11th homer of the season which was a two-run shot and it gave the Jays a 3-0 lead but the Jays only had two hits in the last 6 innings of the game. David Price Shut down the Jays over the next four innings on two hits while the bullpen of Joel Peralta and Fernando Rodney who pitched perfect eighth and ninth inning respectfully while the Rays chipped away at the the lead. As after Henderson Alvarez faced only 15 batters to get through the first four innings and then gave up a RBI double to Ben Zobrist to get them on the board and then retired the next four batters to get into the seventh inning. In the seventh inning Sean Rodriguez lead off with a solo homer and then the wheels came off the D as the Jays booted the ball around starting with runner on first Yunel Escobar was not able to handle a Jose Molina ground ball that could of been two and could of had two outs and no less than out one of the inning but instead all hands are safe. This was followed by Elliot Johnson single scoring a run to tie the game as Rajai was not able to pick up the ball cleanly and it was the second error of the inning because if he did the tying run would of still been on third and then B. J. Upton hit into a double play while Molina scored the winning run. The Jays that had the second best D in baseball in the first few weeks of the season now are leading the league in fielding errors with 37 along with 15 in the last 10 games and tonight was the first four error game the Jays have had this season after having 3 three error games and the tying and winning run were both unearned and the Jays had 7 unearned in the two-game series against the Rays. The pitchers have 7 of the thrown errors and the Jays need to make sure to take a second and plant their feet before throwing the ball as most errors have been rushed plays on routine plays and if they cut down on the careless errors they will keep the opponents off the board and win games. The Jays have not played well to start the home stand and it could be a disaster if they do not play better against the Yankees Tom Mehegan

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