Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Eric Thames teaches the Jays a lession
Carlos Villanueva with a 3-1 lead with two outs in the fifth was smokin' hot having thrown 53 pitches and 40 of those for strikes and had gone 9 up and 9 down before given up back-to-back singles to Dustin Ackley and Michael Saunders to lead off the inning which put runners on the corners for Jesus Montero who grounded into a double play where Ackley scored but Villanueva got out of the it only given up the one run.
With two outs in the fifth Villanueva is unable to get a ball past Mike Carp on a 1-1 count or a 1-2 count as he fouled off two pitches before grounding into the outfield to bring up former Jay Eric Thames in his second at bat against his former team and Villanueva who got ahead of Thames with two curve balls and then with the count 1-2 it looked like he was not on the same paige as Mathis behind the plate and still throw a pitch which was a slider that Thames delivered into left center field to tie the ball game up.
The Mariners took the lead with Michael Saunders on third with two outs and John Jaso singled off Villanueva who took his first loss of the season 5-3 and is now 6-1. Arron Loop gave up a two out ground rule double and an Ackley single to give the M's another two out run.
The game turned on a base running blunder by Rajai Davis who was on second and Anthony Gose on first with two outs in the fifth with a run in on sac fly by Jeff Mathis Rajai breaks for third trying to steal and stops but Gose started to run on Rajai move so Gose was at second so Rajai was a dead duck to end the inning. I do not know if it was a set play and Rajai forgot that Gose was at first but after the out Rajai looked to very apologetic to Gose so that may of been what happened and if it is a straight double steal U can not not stop. After this play the M's starter Blake Beavan was a different pitcher as he retired 8 of the last 9 Jays he faced after starting the first five inning given up 3 runs on 6 hits with Rajai Davis and Colby Rasmus getting two of the 7 hits he gave up over 7.2 innings.
The Jays got Solo homers from Colby Rasmus in the first and Kelly Johnson in the fourth
Tom Mehegan
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