Friday, August 24, 2012
Chris Davis too hot for Jays to handle
So Chris Davis came into the game with 4 of his 20 homers and 7 of his 60 RBIs against the Jays this season in only 9 games and tonight he took his dominance of the Jays this season to whole different level as he three for four with three homers and 4 RBIs in the game and got a standing O in the eighth inning when he struck out. The O's continue to pay back the Jays with their 6-4 victory for simply man handing them over the last two seasons as the Jays coming into this season were 30-6 against with a perfect 18-0 in 2010.
The Jays really had little to nothing against starter 24-year-old Zach Britton as he went 6.2 given up two runs on 4 hits and two walks to go with his six 6ks. The Jays were able to cut a 6-2 O's lead in half in the ninth with a two-run homer from Jeff Mathis and needed either Rajai Davis or Colby Rasmus to reach base so that Jose Bautista could come to the plate with the tying run on but Davis got beat out by a magnificent place by J.J. Hardy and even better play by Mark Reynolds who barely kept his foot on the bag as he was stretched out and Rasmus looked silly striking out against closer Matt Lindstrom. Jose Bautista did not look great as he went o for 4 with two ks and it will be a while for him to get the Rhythm and it could be a long while for power surge.
Carlos Villanueva went 5.2 inning and gave up four runs on 5 hits with a walk and four ks and gave up two solo homers to Davis and it could of been a lot shorter than than it was as he throw 29 pitches in the first inning and gave up a ground-rule double and a walk and then got Matt Wieters to hit a ball to Rajai Davis who made a diving catch. The thing about the catch was that Rajai got careless with the ball and opened his glove and it fell into his hand but if it an inch one way or the other it would of falling to the ground as the Jays have learned this season u need to transfer the ball to your hand to make it an out and two runs would of scored and Chris Davis would been next up and he may of been closer to 40 and the game would of been out of control.
Tomorrow is going to be the first time on major league mound for Brandon Morrow in over two months
Tom Mehegan
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