Ricky Romero comes up with an ace performance to help Jays end losing streak

Rick Romero pitched one of his best games and came up with an ace performance when the Jays need it the most as he went 7 strong innings and did have to fight his mental strength as well and was a big part of getting a win on John Farrell's 50 birthday. Ricky did not get his first win in his last 8 starts but put the Jays in position to win the game and he only gave a double as the only extra base hit the Jays pitching staff gave up and it did score the only run the A's put on the board as Derek Norris drove in a walk to Chris Carter in the second inning and it held up again til the ninth. Then in the fifth Ricky got frustrated with Kelly Johnson not getting a ground ball that would of been out number 3 and instead it was a hit and Romero walked the next two batters to load the bases as apart of his four walks in the game and then finally settles down and got Michael Taylor swinging and it was one of his 5 ks on the day. For the third game in a row the Jays put a run on the board and for the second game in a row the Jays tied the game up with a homer of Ryan Cook to tie the game up and sent it to extras and this time with one out the clean up hitter David Cooper hit a ball for a solo shot that Jeff Mathis hit last night all 388 feet away from home plate. The Jays pen put up another 4 scoreless innings and Steve Delabar pitched to 5 batters and got four of them out with 3ks and Casey Janssen throw 3 pitches to erase Delabar's walk in the ninth with a ground ball double play. Jessie Chavez, who is back up with the Jays as Brett Cecil was sent down to Las Vegas to figure out how not to allow homers, and Chavez pitched well and allowed a single to Jamie Weeks and walked a couple to load the bases and it was more him not getting the calls than throwing balls and kept the ball down and got Josh Reddick swinging to finish the tenth. The put up two runs in the top of the 11 to take a 3-1 victory with Edwin Encarnacion singling to open the inning and with one out Edwin stole second and Rajai Davis walked and with last night's hero at the plate Jeff Mathis the runners were off again and even though Mathis struck out A's catcher George Kottaras throw the ball away down the line to plate the winning run. Then with Moises Sierra at the plate he hit his first ever major league double to score Rajai and it was the second hit of the night for Sierra and both time he got caught trying to score as in the top of the second he tried to score from first on an Anthony Gose double and ran into the tag and in the 11 he tried to score from second on Anthony Gose single and slide in and may of hurt his hand but stayed in the game. Darren Oliver 13 pitches to get the A's 1-2-3 in the bottom of the 11 for his second save of the season. Adeiny Hechavarria has come up and today 0-3 with a walk and two ks as he played third for the first time maybe ever as Brett Lawrie out til at least Tuesday while Anthony Gose got to play center and had his issues with Sierra trying to run him over for fly balls as Colby Rasmus sat out today and maybe back tomorrow. J.A. Happ will take Cecil's start on Thursday in Tampa Tom Mehegan