Jays allow Rays to walk away with the series

Jays took a 1-0 lead against the Rays on a Jose Bautista but Ricky Romero was not able to find the strike zone as throw 105 pitches and faced a batter in the seventh and throw 54 strikes and walked 7 Rays batters and it started early as he walked two in the first inning and both scored to give the Rays a 2-1 lead. In the third inning Carlos Pena was hit by Romero and scored on a Matt Joyce ground and the only Ray to get a hit and score was B.J. Upton on a Luke Scott ground out to give the Rays a 4-1 lead. The Rays kept the lead until Yunel Gomez had a RBI sac fly in the fifth and Edwin Encarnacion hit a two-run homer in the eighth his 14th on the season to tie the game at 4 and went into extra innings where in the bottom of the 11th inning Rich Thompson was hit by a Darren Oliver pitch and with one out B.J. Upton cashed him in for a 5-4 Rays win to make it 15 straight series in Tampa that the Jays have lost to the Rays. The Rays gave up 7 hits but they also gave up 12 free passes and four of the five Rays runs that scored got on base by a free pass as two walks and two hit batters scored and it began with Ricky Romero who had 7 walks and a hit batter and only gave up two hits. So it is extremely head stretching that Ricky Romero is so lost trying to find the plate and today it cost them the series win because if he did not walk so many Rays it would of been the pitchers duel that was excepted between Romero and Jake Shields who gave up 7 hits over 7.1 innings but it really only Bautista as Bautista scored 2 of the three runs the Jays got off of him and Edwin Encatrnacion's two-run digger should of been a crushing blow to the Rays in the game. Romero also had 7 of the Jays 13 Ks in the game and it was another wasted good performances by the three/four hitters who had both had 2 of the Jays 10 hits and both had a homer. Jays are heading to Arlington for a weekend series Tom Mehegan