Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Jays shake up works in game one
The Jays shaken up things before today and it worked marvelous for them as struggling Adam Lind moved down all the way down to the 8 spot and he had a two-run homer to get things started as it gave the Jays a 2-0 lead and he had two hits in the game. So four guys moved up a spot in the lineup with Edwin Encarnacion now the clean up hitter and going into eighth inning with a 0 for 21 and then he was able to unload on a ball for his tenth homer of the season and it gave the Jays a 5-2 lead and Casey Janssen is the now closer as Francisco Cordero was ask to take a seat for a bit and Janssen came in and was able to get ahead of batters and went 1, 2, 3 through the A's in the ninth and was able to get a strike out and it was the 14th A to be k'd which was the most A's k'd in a game this season. The other three batters to move up a spot had a hit each as Eric Thames got a hit and scored, Brett Lawrie getting a double and scoring on a Colby Rasmus RBI single.
Brandon Morrow kept the stretch of three straight victories and he had his most k's in a game (10) this season but his shutout streak ended @ 24 innings in the fifth inning as Jonny Gomes had a RBI single and his streak of not walking a batter in a game @ 2 ended in a big way as he walked four and one of them came in to score the A's run off of Morrow and he only gave up four hits. Morrow battled the A's through 6 innings and through 114 pitches as he had a lot of long at bats and also the four walks he gave up inflated his pitch count but he continues to be a much mentally stronger pitcher than in the past as he has an incredible era of 2.27.
The Jays head to the twin cities with a series split
Tom Mehegan
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