Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Jays not able to beat the national league
Jays have started the month of June 4 and 7 and are now now 1 and 5 against the National League this month as they drop the first two to the Nationals 4-2 as the Nationals hit the ball a little bit further. This is because Henderson Alvarez got 12 ground balls and 6 fly balls but half of those fly balls just kept flying as they cleared the fence for homers as Bryce Harper who had 3 more hits in the game and has been on base 7 of his at bats in the first two games hit a monster solo shot on the first pitch he saw in the third to open the scoring which is 7th on the season. Then in the fourth Danny Espinosa hit his sixth homer of the season also on the first pitch he saw in the at bat and it was two-run shot and when it looked like Alvarez was cruising and finishing off his second straight 3 up/3 down inning in the seventh and eight in a row but then Jhonatan Solano took a 0-2 pitch and parked it into the Jays bullpen for first homer. Henderson Alvarez pitched 7 innings and gave up 3 runs on 9 hits and k'd 3 and walked none and wind carried just a little bit further for the Nationals and Henderson Alvarez needs to mix up his first pitch of at bats as hitters are sitting dead red on the first pitch they see as they know that he will always throws a first pitch strike and if he mixes in a few balls or pitches on the outside corner so it will be harder to tattoo the ball.
Then the Jays hitters got on base with 5 walks and a hit batter from Chien-Ming Wang and were unable to finish him off third inning as he loaded the bases all with two outs and had Edwin Encarnacion at the plate and he was caught looking at strike 3. Then Edwin had his shoot at hit one out twice as he almost went deep to left field right after Bautista hit a two-run homer to cut the lead to 3-2 for the Nationals and when they were down 4-2 he came up with two outs and Bautista on second and hit another one to the warning track to end the inning. Chien-Ming Wang gave up 2 runs on 4 hits and did not have control of his pitches as he throw 95 pitches over his 5 innings and he ended up thowing 48 strikes and 47 balls and this is the pitcher the Jays should of been clubbering him in this great Nationals rotation.
Stephen Strasburg tomorrow will be tough after he had a 15 k game on the weekend
Tom Mehegan
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