Monday, September 3, 2012
Jays bats run into Joe Saunders who retired 17 Jays in order
The Orioles took advantage of Jays pitchers as they only had one 1-2-3 inning in the game after not being able to get a 1-2-3 inning yesterday and it started early with the sun play tricks on the Jays as Adeiny Hechavarria in the second inning could not locate the ball in the sun and at the last second slide to try and make a catch but missed it completely and the batter Manny Machado ended up on third base because of the error and was driven home by Nate McLouth on a sac bunt and it was the winning run in a 4-0 O's win.
The story of the game was Joe Saunders who was on stoppable as he retired the first 17 Jays in order and had a perfect game going with two outs in the sixth when Adeiny Hechavarria spoiled it with a single to center field in front of Adam Jones. After the perfect game and no hitter was wiped out in a single blow Sanders really was not the same pitcher as Rajai Davis then walked but Colby Rasmus was unable to get a hit and then in the seventh he walked Edwin Encarnacion and Adam Lind single and after Yunel Escobar created the first out of the inning Kelly Johnson singled to load the bases and Sanders ended with 6.1 of three hit ball with two walks and two ks and simply just baffled the Jays hitters.
In the seventh with the bases loaded the Jays Luis Ayala came in to face Moses Sierra and fell behind 3 and 0 Luis finally figured out his two seam fastball and after watching the 3-0 pitch for a strike Moses Sierra swung mightily at the next two pitches and struck out and Jeff Mathis who is a pretty good hitter with the bases loaded with slam and 25 RBIs to go with his .286 batting average in the situation got under the 1-0 pitch and flied out to Adam Jones. This was it for any thing of a rally as the O's who now have lead going into the eighth 59 times and have not lost yet brought in Pedro Strop for the eighth and Jim Johnson to pitch the ninth to get the final 6 Jay batters in order and are now 8 and 4 against the Jays this season and look like will win the season series for the first time since '04.
J.A. Happ who has been going step to step with the best pitchers in baseball recently just could not match Sanders and did not come close and it started early when he hit his second pitch of the game hit Nick Markakis and he went 5 innings plus a batter and gave up 3 runs on 6 hits and two walks but did k 9 O's in the game. Happ's down fall was the fifth inning when he gave two RBI doubles to Nick Markakis and J.J. Hardy sandwiched around singles as the first four batters reached which came after a 1-2-3 fourth inning and made it a tough 3-0 deficit.
Brett Cecil pitched the last two innings of the game and just like Happ hit the first batter he faced Nate McLouth and with one out he walked Robert Andino and with two J.J. Hardy pick up his second RBI on a single to center field and Cecil ended up given up a run on 3 singles and two walks and was a little hit and miss in the game.
Jays look to Carlos Villanueva who goes up against Zach Britton who on August 24th in Baltimore pitched 6.2 and gave up two runs on 4 hits to go with two walks and 6ks
Tom Mehegan
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