Monday, June 25, 2012

Jose Bautista ties a Jays record but lose another starter

In a game that 5 hours which nornal in Boston but what is not normal is that it included hr and 56 min rain delay during the game so the actual game did almost finish in 3 hr. After that rain delay the Jays kept their lead as the only damage the Red Soxs got after the game continued in the top of the 7th was David Ortiz's second homer of the game a solo shot to make the final 9-7 Jays and tie Ortiz all-time with Ted Williams with the most multi-homer game as a Sox with 37. Casey Janssen closed down the Soxs in the ninth by striking out the side and leaving Dustin Pedora on Deck and Ortiz in the hole and he throw 12 of his 15 pitches for strikes. With Sergio Santos on the 60-day DL it feels like he not pitch again for the Jays and that is OK as Casey Janssen has shown that he feels very comfortable in the role of closer as he is 8 for 8 after being given the job. Before the rain hit at Fenway Jose Bautista launched a moon shot to field for a two-run shot to make it in 9-5 in the seventh and it broke Bautista's career high in homers in a month and tied the Jays record with Jose Cruz JR and Carlos Delgado with his 12th homer in the month of June and has almost a week to break the record. He has hit 5 homers on this road trip through Milwaukee, Miami, and now Boston and Colby Rasmus started the game well with a two-run homer into the short porch in right field and helped the Jays put up a 4 spot in the very first inning off Felix Doubront. After Edwin Encarnacion hit a very long RBI double and Rajai Davis picked up a RBI on a fielder's choice to end the first inning Colby came up in the second and had a RBI single. The Jays had Henderson Alvarez starting and he struggled early getting the low pitch called a strike and in the first inning after Dustin Pedroia singled Alvarez was able to get one sweet pitch by David Ortiz but not a second one as Ortiz took him deep. As Alvarez continued to get ground balls had Dustin Pedora hit the ball back to him with two outs and he turned awkwardly and it looked like he had done something to his back. He stayed in the game and it looked like when Pedora tried to steal second he was tagged on his foot as he went past Yunel Escobar but was called safe and he ended up on third as the infielders scrabbled to get back in position with Lawrie over in shallow left field. Yunel was charged with the first error of the inning and it helped the Red Soxs cashed in two runs after the caught stealing/stolen base moment and Kelly Johnson could not handle a ground ball off the bat of Jarrod Saltalamacchia and then had an Adrian Gonzalez ground ball eat up his glove and allowed both runs to score.In the fourth Ryan Kalish cashed in a Cody Ross double to tie the game at 5 and in the top of the sixth J.P. Arencibia hit a two-run homer to break the tie. In the bottom of the sixth Henderson Alvarez throw a 0-1 pitch throw a slider and jumped off the mound after the pitch and left immediately pointing to the inside of his elbow which is where the tendons are and could be serious trouble as it is the kind of injury that needs Tommy John surgery but right now it is called elbow soreness. It sad that Alvarez maybe the fourth starter on the sidelines as he really was very good at keeping the ball down in the zone and if he had better infield defense tonight he would of had a quality start as he did have a 5 run (3 earn) on 6 hit with 2ks and a walk. Jays have called up Canadian Scott Richmond to replace Alvarez so it does not look good Tom Mehegan

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