Brandon Morrow pitches his third complete game shutout of the season

Brandon Morrow was on fire tonight as he picked up his third complete game shutout of the season and only gave two hits both to A.J. Pierzynski was cruising through the third to the seventh as he retired 14 straight batters until Kelly Johnson gets eaten up by a ground ball that takes a trick hop and is charged with an error and Brett Lawrie almost made it close at first as he was play shallow right field. As Pierzynski second single of the night was erased by a caught stealing of his pinch runner Brent Lillibridge Morrow had only faced two batters more than the minimum through 8 innings and had thrown only 96 pitches through 26 batters. In the ninth the pressure of finishing the game got to Morrow as he lost the strike as he walked two batters in the ninth after not allowing a walk and throw 66 of 96 pitches through eighth for strikes and in the ninth he throw 12 of his 23 pitches for strikes. This was an amazing outing for Morrow who we did not really know if he would start or if he did what kind of pitcher he would be after taken a ball of his shin a week ago and the 7 and 3 Morrow has truly been the Jays best pitcher through 12 starts and has proven that pitchers sometimes be able to find a completely different way of pitching. He had a little run support behind him as it took the Jays batters to the fifth inning to cash in a run as Colby Rasmus brought home Rajai Davis on a single. Then in the sixth inning Jose Bautista had a no doubt homer as he hit his 15 of the season a solo shot and it mark the third game in the last 4 that Bautista has hit a homer and now has 40 RBIs of the season. Rajai Davis capped his three hit night with a two-run homer in the ninth to give the Jays a 4-0 victory his fourth of the season while David Cooper also had 3 of the Jays hits as well and has been a strong addition to the Jays roster. Edwin Encarnacion hand has ballooned and will be unable to swing a bat until the swelling goes down so Yan Gomez is back up with the big club Tom Mehegan