Saturday, September 8, 2012
Jays waited out two hours to see Anthony Gose hit a homer
It was like a three part mini series as the Jays took the second of the three game series at fenway as they waited out two rain delays and two hours and won to the tune of 9-2 which is centered around Anthony Gose who had his coming out party with his first ever homer in the majors and 5 RBIs.
Before the rain showed up the Jays took Daisuke Matsuzaka to the cleaners in the second inning as he gave up 5 runs in the inning and was not able to get out of the inning and the big hit in the inning was a two-run single by Anthony Gose. Yunel Escobar lead off the inning with a homer while Rajai Davis had a sac fly RBI and Adeiny Hechavarria had a RBI double in the inning as well. Colby Rasmus messed up a perfectly fine bat around inning in the second when Edwin Encarnacion hit a fly ball to Jacoby Ellsbury and Rasmus who was on first thought there was two outs and ran around the bases but there was only one out and he got doubled up. In the bottom of the inning Anthony Gose ran down a ball in foul ground when the wind knocked down a ball that was going into the crowd. Arron Laffy who replaced J.A. Happ in the order before the rain came had an one hitter going with a walk and hit batter on his resume as well.
After a 58 minute rain delay the game resumed Arron Laffy was not the same as the fifth starter as he gave up singles to Mike Aviles and Scott Podsednik who got a RBI after a walk to Ryan Lavarnway to open the inning. In the inning Adam Lind made the play of the game when with a run in to get the Soxs on the board and no outs Jose Iglesias hit a ball into foul ground and Adam Lind barely had his foot off the bag as he caught the ball and tapped the bag with his glove to double up Scott Podsednik but Laffy was not able to get the third out of the inning before the rain harder and left the game given up two runs on four hits with two walks and ks.
After a 63 minute Rain delay Brad Lincoln came in and got 7 straight outs to get the game into the eighth inning with 3 ks and picked up the win and is now 5-2. In the eighth Brett Cecil gave up a sigle in 0.2 innings pitched before Jason Frasor came in after resting his arm since late-July when the Jays were in Boston and he gave up a single in 1.1 innings pitched to pick up a save.
The Jays bats were completely quiet between the third and the eighth after Adam Lind singled to open the third and after 15 straight outs Colby Rasmus singled and went to third on an Edwin Encarnacion with some smart base running and scored on a RBI single by Adam Lind. Then in the ninth Anthony Gose finished the game off with a three-run homer to right field where a wet fan caught it and will probably offer something from Gose for the ball.
Jays have won five in Boston and the Jays look like the Jays should off most of the season
Tom Mehegan
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