Sunday, August 12, 2012
Edwin Encarnacion sets a career high in 6 run four
Edwin Encarnacion sert a new career mark in RBIs as he hit a two-run blast and escorted Mike McCoy who is back again and he capped off a 6 run innings and put the Jays up 7-0 after four innings of work on their way to a 10-7 victory. The bats have not been this loud for a hole week as the Jays crushed up 14 hits and it is a very welcomed happening which may not be happening very often the rest of the way as Colby Rasmus is day-to-day and Yunel Escobar is up in the air. The Jays left more runners on base today 7 than yesterday's 5 but can up with key hits going 5 for 12 with runners in scoring position today. The big bat today was Rajai Davis who is trying to make up for his D with hisa bat and I still could live without him even though he collected all 5 base runners that were on base for his in the fourth and fifth as he had runners on first and second and both scored on his double in the fourth and then he doubled with the bases loaded in the fifth and all runners scored and it put the game away at 10-1 after five. Edwin and Moses Sierra both had three hits in the game while Rajai Davis and David Cooper had two each as the Jays hammered Phil Hughes for 7 runs on 9 hits over four innings and then Ryota Igarashi gave up Davis's three-run double in the fifth.
J.A. Happ picked up his first win as a Jays and was stellar when he needed to be as he gave up a single to the first batter of the game Derek Jeter and then retired 12 in a row before Andrew Jones doubled with one out and Casey McGehee drove him home with his own double with two outs in the fifth. In the sixth he was hurt by the long ball as with one out Derek Jeter hit a solo shot and with two outs and a man on Robertson Cano hit a two-run shot on Happ last pitch of the game as he gave up 4 runs on 6 hits and did not walk a Yank and k'd 4 of them over 5.2 innings. Brad Lincoln did not help his cause today in the seventh as he pitched pitched an inning and his down fall was after given up a lead-off single to Curtis Granderson and then got two quick outs but he had three shots at getting the third out as he gave up back-to-back RBI doubles to Jason Nix and Derek Jeter and followed by a Nick Swisher RBI single to get Lincoln out of the game. Darren Oliver still had trouble getting out of the seventh as he gave up a double to Mark Teixeira and hit Robertson Cano to load the bases as the Yanks had 5 straight batters reached but after Andrew Jones grounded out Oliver went 3 up and 3 down in the eighth and Casey Janssen did the same in the ninth to pick up 15 save of the season.
It is nice to see the Jays put on a show in front of almost 44 thousand as they got 130 for the series
Tom Mehegan
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