Friday, June 15, 2012

Jays win a pitcher duel but lose another starter

I got to the game early and I was stunned as I watch both Phillies pitchers Joe Blanton and Michael Schwimer heaving balls into the second deck in center field during batting practice and I would not be surprised if one or both ends up shoulder soreness and simply it would stupidity. What was not stupid was that Shane Victorino throw a ball to a couple in my row with a baby he throw by his warm-up ball in second inning to the women who dropped but it landed on the field and he throw it back up to the guy who caught and it was the coolest thing I've seen. The Jays won 3-0 over the Phillies in the opener of their series at the Rogers Centre and they used 6 pitchers to complete a 5 hitter in front of just over 28 thousand and it started quick with Hutchison getting two outs in 6 pitches but with Hunter Pence at the plate on a 1-1 pitch Hutchison throw a ball and hoped off the mound and called for the trainer and he was worried about right elbow and left after 9 pitches. After the game John Farrell spoke about it and said that at this point it is elbow discomfort and would not go any further right now because it would simply speculation and he was not going there and that someone would be called up for tomorrow. The Jays used 5 pitchers out of the bullpen and four of the five pitchers pitched well with Aaron Laffey being the only one to not throw strikes as he pitched 1.1 innings and he throw 29 pitches and throw 14 balls and 15 strikes with a hit and a walk by him and finished off Hunter Pence with a walk after Hutchison left the game. Then Carlos Villanueva 4 innings of very strong pitching and gave up two hits and 2 walks and finished the sixth striking out the side while finishing with 5 in the game and throw 66 pitches and 46 strikes (70%) and picked up the victory and Jason Frasor pitched the seventh and walked and k'd a batter. Darren Oliver came in to pitch the eighth inning hit a batter and gave up a single and crowd went crazy with the umps calls along with Shane Victorino being hit by a pitch and the three stolen bases as they tried to get Juan Pierre at second and it was close and then during a double steal and both Pierre and Victorino were safe and the crowd called BS on everything but Oliver knew how to fix it and that was by striking out Brian Schneider to end the inning. In the ninth with Kasey Janssen and Mike Fontenot singled off him on a ground ball to second and Kelly Johnson almost throw him out but again the Phillies got the close calls but Janssen like Oliver was able to shut down the Phillies with Jimmy Rollins popped up to end the game. The Phillies got 7 great innings from their starter Vance Worley throw a 5 hitter with two walks and 5 ks and he gave up a run with back-to-back doubles to Rajai Davis and Brett Lawrie with two outs in the third and fell victim of a throwing error by Mike Fontenot on a ball that looked like a double play by Encarnacion in the fourth and throw it away trying to get Jose Bautista at second base. It turned into a two base error as Bautista scored and Encarnacion went first to third and scored on a Yunel Escobar ground and that was the ball game. Ricky/Cliff tomorrow a juicy match-up tomorrow Tom Mehegan

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