J.A. Happ is everything the wanted and more but ...

J.P. Happ went head to head with Justin Verlander and was equal if not better than Verlander for his 7.1 as he gave up a single run on four hits and did walk 3 but his 7 ks made up for it. He got some very good D as Anthony Gose went all out for a ball early but the play of the game happened in the bottom of the fourth Ramon Santiago (who replaced Miguel Cabrera) hit a ball into foul ground and Edwin Encarnacion caught it and Kelly Johnson had a massive heads up play covering first to double up Omar Infante who had singled to open the inning and helped Happ get a 1-2-3 inning after the Jays got their first two hits of the game in the top of the inning as Colby Rasmus singled and Edwin Encarnacion drove him home with a two-run blast to put the Jays up 2-0. Verlander got six straight batters until all heck broke loose in the top of the sixth and by the end of the inning nobody was happy with the umps and it started innocently enough with Rajai Davis getting hit by a pitch and he felt it he was jumping up and down but stayed in the game. With Colby Rasmus at the plate Rajai decides to make Verlander pay and tries to steal second and actually does as his hand reaches the bag before it is tagged and second base ump Chad Fairchild calls him out and Rajai does not like it and has a word or two as he going back to the dugout. Then Justin Verlander is not happy with plate ump Alfonso Marquez and it looked to help him as Edwin and Kelly Johnson get rung up looking to end the inning and both have a few words. When Johnson is rung up he is at the plate having a conversation with Marquez who is animated but does not toss Johnson so Jays manger John Farrell gets involved to protect his second baseman and after he is done talking it was time for Jim Leyland comes out and make sure that Farrell does not get a call but the best part of all this is that nobody was tossed. The Jays lead stayed until the eighth inning where after getting the first out of the inning J.A. Happ walks Alex Avila and after 106 pitches he was replaced by Brandon Lyon who gave up a single before out No. 2. Then Darren Oliver comes in after not pitching in 5 days and gave up a ground ball out of the reach of Kelly Johnson and went into the outfield off the bat of Brennan Boesch to plate a run and with Prince Fielder at the plate a pitch off the plate and it hit Jeff Mathis and carried away from the plate that was scored a wild pitch and Austin Jackson scored to make it 2-2. It went extras and in top of the tenth the Jays got a lead-off single by Jeff Mathis and with one out he was replaced by Mike McCoy and Anthony Gose hit a screamer at in a normal situation would of been a RBI single/double but Austin Jackson came out of nowhere and took one for the team and laid out and made a game changing catch. In the bottom of the eleventh the Tigers won the game as Delmon Young grounded into a force play and was replaced by Quintin Berry who was 16 of 16 stealing bases and got his opportunity and got the benefit of the doubt as he stole second on a bang-banger and Alex Avila home on a shallow fly ball that Anthony Gose can not run down and Chad Jenkins picked up the loss. J.A. Happ is all the Jays could hope for and will be a good third starter next season Tom Mehegan