Monday, July 16, 2012

Jays played with fire and got burn and lost Bautista

The Jays and Henderson Alvarez played with fire and did not burned as a single and a couple walks in the first Nick Swisher struck out to end the inning. Then in the eighth with Jason Frasor on the mound in a 2-2 game faced Mark Teixeira with one out and had been dominating him given up only one hit in 14 bats but on a 2-2 pitch Frasot hit him to load the bases again and faced Swisher again and he got stuck out again and it was a bad night for him. Then with two outs Frasor fell behind Raul Ibanez 3 and 1 and had to throw a strike and he got third degree burns as Ibanez launched a rocket to the left field corner and it landed in the second deck to give the Yankees a 6-2 lead. The Jays in the ninth did put together hits as with one out Kelly Johnson walked, Rajai Davis, singled and J.P. singled and Johnson scored on a fielding error on Dwayne Wise but Brett Lawrie popped up and the struggling Colby Rasmus was caught looking at strike three to end the game. The big story in the game was Jose Bautista who in the top of the eighth just missed a pitch that went very far but went very foul and he was crumpled on the grass holding his wrist as the wild Bautista swing had followed through and the bat was left in his left hand and when brought back up he dropped it in pain and was taken out of the immediately for Frank Francisco. The wrist injury may of happened in the sixth inning when Bautista scored from first on an Edwin Encarnacion double to tie the game at 2 when he slammed the same left hand hard on the plate as he slide around Yankee catcher to score the run. So as a wrist injury is a nagging one it maybe a couple of days or a couple of weeks or even a month or so if surgery is needed and we will get a better understanding after the x-rays but the talk between Farrell and the trainer was a long listening session for Farrell so it may not be a good thing. Henderson Alvarez after it was all said and done kept the ball down and gave up two runs on 5 hits with four walks and 6 ks but he did struggle through the first 2.1 innings of the game as he could not figure out the ump strike zone as he throw 70 pitches over the first three innings. Then he figured it out and retired 9 straight Yankees before given up a walk and a single before getting a double play to end the inning and he throw only 26 pitches over his last three innings and got hurt in the game by a Russell Martin solo homer that was down and Russell used all his power to lifted it into the seats in left field by inches in the first and back to back doubles in the third by A-rod and Ceno. Adam Lind still has that hitters touch as he hit a solo jack to get the Jays on the board in the fourth Tom Mehegan

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