Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Jays hit hard by Rays

The Blue Jays did not have a 1-2-3 inning in the game as they got a hit in every inning they batted in and Drew Hutchison kept every some what in order going into the bottom of the fourth as the Rays only lead 1-0 on a Luke Scott homer in the second. In the fourth inning the wheels came off and the Rays put up a 5 spot with the crushing blow being Carlos Pena three-run homer to make it 6-0 as they also collected a RBI double from Drew Sutton who seemed to be everywhere in the last 48 hours as he was traded to Pittsburgh and was on his way to Buffalo in triple A and then he was told that he was traded again and was needed in Tampa and tonight he had two of the Rays 14 hits in the game. Also in the fourth Brett Lawrie who in his second game back barehanded a ball and made it impossible for J.P. to tag the runner coming home which made it 3-0 and in the eighth he lost his head again as he slide into second base on a Yan Gomez fly ball and stepped over the bag and did not retouch it and the Rays challenged the play and he was called out and no real fire works happened. The Jays made it interesting in the top of the fifth with a 4 spot to make it 6-4 with help from the Rays pitcher Matt Moore after walking the lead-off hitter Colby Rasmus got to force outs and then walked the bases loaded to bring up Jose Bastista who had a great night as he had a two-run single as apart of his three hit night. Then Edwin Encarnacion hit a ground ball to Sean Rodriguez who should of been the third out but instead the throw to first is air mailed and misses Pena and then Ben Zobrist gets the ball and misses everybody and is charged with his first error as an outfielder which was a stretch of over 200 games and in the end two unearned runs scored. Still in the top of the fifth J. P. Arencibia stepped to the plate against relief pitcher and flies out to end the inning and Moore throw 58 pitches over the first four innings and then 39 in two-thirds of an inning in the fifth. Jays every time they got on the board the Rays would answer with a two out hit as Chris Gimenez had a RBI single in the fifth to make it 7-4 and when Yan Gomez hit a solo homer in the sixth B.J. Upton answered with his own solo homer in the sixth which was actually a homer to make the final 8-5 Rays. Ricky Romero taken the rubber in the rubber game of the series Tom Mehegan

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