Blue Jays give up 5 homers in another loss

Lets start with what might be a little tiny sliver of good news in a 7-2 loss as Jose Bautista is hitting live baseball practice and will continue during the weekend and if all goes well he will head to the minors to get into games. Arron Laffy had good staff but when the Soxs got a hit they all left the field of play as he pitched 6 strong innings and gave his only walk to Youkilis in the first and then he gave up his first hit in the third to Dwayne Wise with one out snapping six straight Soxs retired and then in the fifth after retiring 5 straight he gave up back-to-back hits to Dayan Viciedo and Tyler Flowers with the Jays up 2-1 and it turned the tables of the game. Laffy retired the sixth batters he faced and ended up with 5 ks and with the shoe string battering order that was lessened tonight as Edwin did not play and it has putting a huge amount of pressure on the pitchers to be almost perfect. The Jays got three hits off Chisox starter in the third inning Francisco Liriano including a two-run homer from Moses Sierra and after Jeff Mathis picked a single 13 Jays were retired in a row as Yunel Escobar walked to lead off the seventh and it took til the eighth for the Jays get another hit as Jeff Mathis picked up his second hit of the game and was the only player in the game with more than one hit while Rajai Davis followed with a double. The Jays bullpen had its struggles in the eighth inning and it was Darren Oliver who looked very rusty as he has been getting spot duty as a setup man and came into the game with the Jays down 3-2 and with one out Kevin Youkilis singled and Oliver pitched around Adam Dunn for a walk to bring up Alex Rios who planted a three-run homer in left field. After getting the second out of the inning Oliver was replaced by Brandon Lyons who faced Alexei Ramirez who finished off a four-run eighth inning with the Soxs last homer of the night but then struck out Dayan Viciedo to end the inning. Jays lost everything to the Soxs for the first time since 2006 and now here comes Yu Tom Mehegan