Thursday, May 10, 2012
Jays ran cycles around the Twins while taken a flyer on a firmer Expos
So Edwin Encarnacion had two RBIs in the Jays 6-2 victory and the ball did not leave the infield as he had an ground ball for a double in the third with Yunel on second and Bastista on first, after being hit or nearly hit in back-to-back pitches and the second was a no doubter getting him flush in the rib cage, and Bastista slide into second base and by the time the Twins infield got up Yunel was running across home plate. Then also in the third the Jays put up a 3 spot as Brett Lawrie got a RBI single and on a pass ball by catcher Ryan Doumit he went first to third and then scored on a RBI ground-rule double by Kelly Johnson. Edwin popped sky high in front of the plate and Ryan Doumit lost it in the sky and the pitcher Jason Marquis dropped it and Yunel Escobar ran home on contact and scored. The Jays also scored two runs in the first inning that was setup by a Jason Marquis wild pitch with runners on first and second and both runners moved up on the pitch so that Eric Thames had a sac fly and Brett Lawrie had another RBI single. Yunel Escobar had a four hit night and scored 3 of the Jays 6 runs and his batting average is all the way up to .265 thanks to being moved down to second in the order while Colby Rasmus also had two hits in the game.
The Jays had two more errors in the game but it was the two double plays in the game that they turned as Brian Dozier hit into a double play in the first with a lead off single and it was a good way to set the mound for the Jays and Henderson Alvarez. Then the sixth inning the double play was huge because right after that Josh Willingham step up and went deep and if it was not a double play it would of been 6-4 and instead it was 6-2 and Henderson pitched 7 innings and gave up 2 runs on 7 hits and walked 3 and k'd 2 and only one was earned because a double play attempt Kelly Johnson got the force at second and then throw away the ball as he throw the ball to first as Alexi Casilla scored.
Luis Perez and Jason Frasor pitched a clean inning each and both k'd two batters and now Vladimir Guerrero is heading to Dunedin to start an extended spring training as he was signed to a minor league so it does not effect anything except if he gets power and joins the Blue Jays and tries to help the Jays off the bench or something.
Tom Mehegan
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