Jays still not getting the bounces

It looked like the Jays were finally going to get some breaks as they took an early 3-0 on Cece Sabathia as Maicer Izturis who had three hits lined a ball into Eduardo Nunez's glove and hit it so hard that it fell out for a base hit and then Emilio Bonifacio doubled down the line for a double at third as Jason Nix was pinching in for a bunt and Rajai Davis grounded out for a 1-0 lead in the third. The Jays also had Bonifacio at third with Melky Cabrera at the plate and CeCe throw a pitch in the dirt and if it was the Jays that ball would of gone up the first base line and the run scored but Chris Seward blocked it so the run did not score. In the fourth the Jays got solo shots from Jose Bautista to lead off and with one out Brett Lawrie drove in Edwin from third as Edwin singled and was moved over by J.P. Arencibia on a ground ball and moved to third on a pass ball by catcher Chris Steward and on the fly ball to right by Lawrie ichiro had Edwin at the plate but Steward dropped the ball as he went to tag Edwin. So in the bottom of the inning J.A. Happ who usually bends but does not break just could not find the plate to the first two batters he faced Vernon Wells and Kevin Youkilis as he throw 9 pitches total to them (8 balls and a stike) and walked them to bring up Travis Hafner and on a 2-1 pitched showed J.A. where the Yankees bullpen is as he hit a three-run homer just over the bullpen to tie up the game for the Yankees. This turned the game from good to bad for the Jays as they started the five inning with Davis and Cabrera both singled but the Jays heart of the order Bautista (flied out), Edwin (shapely lined to left), and J.P. (k'd on a foul tip) and the runners did not move up. Then the lead off hitter in the sixth Brett Lawrie hits a solo shot and with a hit from the guys in front of him the Jays would of been up more than 4-3 and J.A. Happ left after 6 given up 3 runs on 6 hits with 5 ks and 2 walks and was able to keep the Jays in the game. The Jays got a very long and loud out from Jose Bautista to end in the seventh and a couple innings earlier it would of been a sac fly but center fielder Brett Gardner made the catch to end the inning and in the bottom of the inning Esmil Rogers in with the game tied on a Vernon Wells single Travis Hafner hit the ball to the same place as Bautista but Rajai gets turned around and it ends up as a game -winning triple 5-4. CeCe who was on the ropes in the top of the fifth went 8 and gave up 4 runs on 9 hits with 3 ks and no walks while Joba Chamberlain came in for the ninth and k'd pinch hitter Colby Rasmus which is the nothing part of all or nothing but then gave up singles to Maicer Izturis (who was pinched run for by Munenori Kawasaki) and Bonifacio which was on a bounce throw by Jayson Nix but Kevin Youkillis got out in front of the base and smothered the ball and if it was the Jays it would been heading into the dugout and both runners would of been in scoring position and the run would of either scored on Rajai shallow fly ball to right or Melky Cabrera's ground ball to Nix who had the ball eat him up for a split second before beating Kawasaki) to the bag at third to end the game. Jays were 0 for 9 with runners in scoring position Tom Mehegan

Jays taught a lesson in one run games

So once again the O's picked up one run victory over the Jays 2-1 with a RBI base hit down the left field line by Nick Markakis in the bottom of the ninth which was setup by Chris Davis being hit by Arron Loup's first pitch to lead off the inning. With two outs he intentionally walked Nolan Reimold to bring up Alexi Casilla and Loup got the inning ending ground ball to Munenori Kawasaki but he bounced the ball to first and the throwing error loaded the bases and Markakis was the first extra batter an on a 0-2 pitch he gave up the line drive to end the game. The Jays and the O's got into a very tight pitchers duel as the Jays got a four hit performance over 6 plus innings from J.A. Happ and got 6 ks over the first three innings and ended up with those 6 ks and two walks and kept the Jays in the game against O's starter Chris Tillman who gave up four hits over 6.2 innings and walked 3 and k'd 3 Jays. The O's got on the board first as they got a run in the sixth inning as they put together two singles two open from Manny Machado and Adam Jones that both hit the ball off the glove of Brett Lawrie and to make it worse J.A. Happ throw a wild pitch that went off the glove of J.P. Arencibia and moved the up 90 feet and took away the chance of the double play. This was costly as Matt Wieters grounded a double play ball to Munenori Kawasaki and he was able to hold the runners and get the first out of the inning and in the end Chris Davis got a sac fly to make it 1-0. The Jays evened the score in the top of the seventh with Edwin Encarnacion on first and two ks after Adam Lind got retired for the fist time in 10 at bats they got back-to-back singles from J. P. Arencibia and then a RBI single from Colby Rasmus but then Emilio Bonifacio got k'd to end the inning by Tillman. The bullpens were solid with Loup given up the only hit by either pen and it was the game winner and hid biggest mistake was hitting Chris Davis to open the ninth and it hurt as the Jays fell just short and left Steve Delabar's 2 innings of no hit ball with 3 ks and a walk very lonely. Darren O'Day went 1.1 innings and only walked 2 and 2 ks and their closer came in and went 1-2-3 through the Jays and picked up the victory. Adam Lind is getting hot and hopefully more are ready to get hot as the pitching is hitting their stride Tom Mehegan

Jays a step behind Yanks in extras

The Jays really just kicked themselves over and over and over again in the middle game of a three game series against the New York Yankees as they only had two hits and were down 3-0 going into the bottom of the eighth and over 46 thousand were sleeping including myself. This was because one the Jays had only two bloody hits and when the Jays actually walked like J.P. in the second inning after battling back from a 0 - 2 count to walk in a 7 pitch at bat he decides that he is walking before the ump makes his call and he is one of the 20 k'd Jays in the first two games of the series instead of the 5 Jay to walk and all because he decided to not to wait for the ump's call and Jose did it on a 3 and 1 count in the Jays eighth inning and learned his lession and walked on the next pitch. The Jays bats were finding fielders like when Edwin lined out to Eduardo Nunez to end the first inning with a Melky Cabrera double on and former Jay Jason Nix catches a very sharply hit ball by Munenori Kawasaki in the third. While the Jays D are not as sharp as Maicer Izturis dropped the start of a double play as he dropped the throw by Munenori Kawasaki in the fourth of the bat of former Jay Vernon Wells and it cost starter Mark Buehrle 10 pitches but not a run. Also in the fifth Kevin Youkilis hit a ball to Brett Lewrie with one out and the bases juiced and Lawrie jumps for sharply hit ball and did not need to jump as it goes off him for two runs and the 3-0 lead which could of been the second out of the inning and the Jays only down 1-0. It still continued as Colby Rasmus is at the wall on a ball hit by former Jay Lyle Overbay and it turns into a double because Colby Rasmus glove is just a tiny bit to the right of the ball. Mark Buehrle kept the Jays in the game as he pitched 7 innings and gave up 3 runs on on 8 hits an intentional walk to load the bases in the fifth for Kevin Youkilis and throw 108 pitches including the intentional 4 and the extra 10 because of the D while the Jays only had Melky's double to that point in the game. While the Yanks countered with Hiroki Kuroda who through six inning gave up one hit and it was the eighth inning that he gave up a hit to Colby Rasmus with one out and left given up 3 hits for David Robertson who blew up really good and the Jays put another two singles and a couple of walks all with two outs and scored three runs to tie up the ball game at 3 with a RBI single Rajai Davis and a two-run RBI single by Melky Cabrera. It got to extras and the Jays got a single by Maicer Izturis to lead off the tenth and after the Jays first sac bunt of the season which came from Emilio Bonifacio he was standing at second with one out for the top of the order and Rajai popped out and Melky grounded out to leave the winning run at second. In the top of the 11TH the Yanks got back-to-back singles from Wells and Francisco Cervelli and Ichiro bunted a ball right back to pitcher Arron Loup and it was awesome except that Brett had come into field the bunt and Maicer Izturis did not move over to third and the ball from Loup went past Lawrie who was not back at the bag and it went down the line for two unearned runs and the Yanks win 5-3. The only 42 left in Major league baseball came in and saved the game for the Yanks and the Jays still not right but soon Tom Mehegan

Jays D not Brandon Morrow friend

Brandon Morrow was sucking for the first three innings and it was 3-1 Yanks with one out in the third inning with Vernon "boo" Wells on third and Ichiro on second and Eduardo Nunez flied out to shallow center field and Rasmus catch it and throw it home to hold Vernon at third but there was only one problem J.P. went in front of the plate and missed the ball and went into the dugout for two unearned to make it 5-1 and it was over. Jays D also did not help Morrow also in the sixth inning as Rajai Davis was sleeping in right field and on a Cervelli fly ball to him and Rajai went over to the ball and slide about 6 or 7 steps away from the wall and the ball went off his glove and it turned into a double that Rajai should of been able to get under the ball and catch it and it turned out to be Morrow's last pitch of the night. The D also let down Brett Cecil as he came in and Brett Gardiner hit a ball to the wall and Rasmus was nowhere to be found as he had to simply run it to the wall and throw it to wide of third and if Lawrie does not stretch to get the ball Gardiner walked home and he still got home on a Robertson Cano ground ball. Brandon Morrow did go 5.1 innings pitched and did give up 7 runs (5 earned) and he did give up solo homers to Travis Hafner with one out in the third and with one out in the sixth inning former Jay Lyle Overbay slammed a solo homer. Brett Cecil gave up a solo homer to former Jay Vernon "boo" Wells slammed a solo shot to make it 9-1 Yanks. Andy Pettitte was his own best friend as with a run in and Jose Bautista who was DHing on first and Edwin scotched a ball right back to Petite who doubled up Bastista at first to end the inning in a 2-1 Yanks game. He also fielded his position starting the second inning as J.P. grounded back to Pettitte who throw him out and he ended up pitching 7.1 innings and gave up 3 runs on 6 hits. The Jays had bright spots starting with Brett Lawrie who ran out an infield hit and got two hits in the game and Jose Bautista slammed a two-run homer in the bottom of the sixth. J.P. Arencibia hit a solo shot in the bottom of the ninth with two outs and it made the final 9-4 Yanks and J.P. had two hits in the game. I'M going to see Buehrle live tomorrow Yeah Tom Mehegan

Jays run all over Chisoxs to slip series

The Jays in the bottom of the first got a ground ball single from Rajai Davis who stole both second and third before Edwin Encarnacion had a RBI single to left to put the Jays up 1-0 and Edwin had the third stolen base of the inning. This was enough for Jays R.A. Dickey who was baffling the White Soxs as he went through the order once with no base runners and 5 ks but in the fourth former Jay Alex Rios broke up Dickey's perfect game with two outs in the fourth and after a walk he finished off Adam Dunn with his sixth strikeout to end the inning. Dickey continued to baffle the Soxs hitters only given up one more hit over his last two innings and that was eliminated by a double play and the only thing that stopped him tonight was a stiff back as he got through 6 innings in only 64 pitches and could of stayed in and gone even deeper into the game but the Jays felt it was important that they be safer then sorry and took him out with 7 ks to a walk. The Jays got another couple of gift runs in the fifth as Emilio Bonifacio got hit by a pitch by Chris Sale who then tried to catch Bonifacio napping and instead it was Sale who was napping as he throw the ball down the first base line on a pick-off attempt and Bonifacio ended up on third missing up two bases on the throwing error. Munenori Kawasaki continued the inning by reaching safely on a throwing error by Adam Dunn and it scored Bonifacio and then came all the way around to score on a Rajai Davis double to the gap to make it 3-0. Chris Sale pitched very well for Chicago and went 8 innings and gave up 4 hits and pitched like an ace but his own pitching mistakes of a hit batter and a wild pick-off attempt along with three stolen bases hurt him badly leading to two of the three runs he gave up and 6 ks to 1 walk. Arron Loup gave up a run in the eighth inning as Tyler Flowers had a RBI double after having a three-run blast in last night's game but it took Casey Janssen 8 pitches to go 1-2-3 through the Soxs to collect his fifth save of the season. The back problems are an issue with Bautista Tom Mehegan

Bautista MIA as Jays shutdown

So Jose Bautista has played all 6 road games but he has missed 6 of the Jays first home games as he missed the Red Soxs series and the first three against the White Soxs with a bad back and the Jays bats have been silent at home as they got shutout 7-0 and fall to 3-6 at home this season. Brett Lawrie has been back for two games and still is unable to catch-up to the real major league stuff as he is 0 for 7 with a sac fly RBI but 4ks and he left 3 runners on base as had 3 ks in his 4 at bats tonight. It was Melky Cabrera with who fell on his face as Munenori Kawasaki and Rajai Davis both were on in the third and fifth inning and Melky struck out to end the third and grounded out in fifth to end the inning and left four runners on. Jose Quintana got into some trouble with a double and a walk in the fifth and two singles in the third but lasted 6.2 and gave up 5 hits and 2 walks and just was able to get out of two out jams as the Jays hitters were unable to get that big hit to open up the game. The Jays were unable to dent the Chisoxs bullpen as Jesse Crain only gave up a single in 1.1 inning pitched and it was to Edwin who was on base three times with two singles and a walk and the Donnie Veal came in and went 1-2-3 in the ninth to finish the game. J.A. Happ who was the best pitcher throw the rotation was the worst the third time around and it was another long inning that shortened his night and put a crooked number on the board and it was a two out and 2 on 2 and 1 fastball in the second inning which was the third straight fastball and catcher Tyler Flowers crushed it for a three-run homer to open the inning. He throw 30 pitches in the inning did not allow him to get through the 6 inning like the rest of the rotation as he throw 92 pitches as he went 5.2 innings and gave up 5 runs on 6 hits and a walk. Happ gave up s two out hit to Alexei Ramirez to drive in Paul Konerko who lead off the third inning with a double and after two ks Happ just was unable to close the deal and the other mistake was a lead-off homer to Alex Rios to lead off the sixth. Ramon Ortiz came across lake Ontario from buffalo to end up innings and he did that for the Jays as he went the last 3.1 innings and got hit extremely hard in the seventh as gave up three straight singles and gave up a RBI sac fly to Jeff Keppinger and after he walked Rios to load the bases and Paul Konerko had a RBI sac fly and he gave up no more runs but two hits the rest of the way. Jays need a healthy Bautista and Lawrie getting back in game shape Tom Mehegan

Mark Buehrle shows what he can do

Mark Buehrle started very slowly by given 2 runs on 4 hits in the first inning and the Jays were down 2 before even taken a swing at Gavin Floyd and then he settled down against the very familiar foe of the Chicago White Soxs and went another 5.1 and gave up only 5 more hits the rest of the way and did not give up another run. It was the first time that Buehrle has faced the team he pitched for the first 12 seasons of his outstanding career and he a pit bull after the first inning nerves and showed Jays faces what they should expect from Buehrle who has pitched over 200 innings the past 12 seasons and he is getting stronger and will be going deeper into games from here. So with Buehrle folding the Soxs the Jays bats went at Gavin Floyd as Emilio Bonifacio doubled to open to the game and moved to third on a pass ball and came home on a sac fly from Melky Cabrera. With Jose Bautista sitting tonight J.P. on the three spot rocked a solo homer to tie the game at 2 in the first and they kept on Floyd in the inning as Edwin Encarnacion and Adam Lind continued the hitting game with a single and double respectfully but then Floyd k'd DeRosa and Colby Rasmus to end the inning. The Jays continued to take Floyd deep in the second as Maicer Izturis lead off with a homer and then in the fourth Munenori Kawasaki continued to show why he wants to stay with the Jays as he tripled and continues to love playing and Emilio Bonifacio drove him home for the winning run with a sac fly making it 4-2. The Bullpen of Esmil Rogers, Arron Loup, and Casey Janssen who gave up only one hit in the last 2.2 inning with Esmil Rogers facing only two batters and getting them out and Arron Loup hit Adam Dunn and gave up a double to Dayan Viciedo with one out and battled back to only give up a sac fly RBI to Alexei Ramirez to make it 4-3 but Loup k'd Tyler Flowers to end the eighth inning. Casey Janssen came into shutdown the Soxs after falling behind Conor Gillaspie 3 and 0 and k'd him on the next three pitches and throw 5 strikes in a row and 6 of 7 to k Alejandro De Aza and with enemy # 1 Alex Rios on deck he got Jeff Keppinger to ground out to Munenori Kawasaki who throw him out to end the game. Edwin Encarnacion continues to heat up with three more hits and Adam Lind got a two hit game and a walk and they had half of the 10 Jays hits. Jays have won 3 of the last 4 games to stay close to the rest of the East Tom Mehegan

Edwin Encarnacion tries to power Royals sweep

Edwin Encarnacion tried to help the Jays to sweep away the Royals and came up just short after hitting a RBI ground out in the first and smoking a solo homer in the sixth he came up in a 2-2 ballgame in the eighth with Melky Cabrera on first he crushed a ball into the left field corner and it had the legs but it went foul. With two on for J.P. Arencia he struck out to end the inning and it went to the bottom of the ninth inning it was still 2-2 and with one out Chris Getz off Darren Oliver hit a laser to right field to Rajai Davis and the ball kicked off his glove on a bounce and went to the wall and Getz ended up with a double and on the next day Alex Gordon singled him home to win the game 3-2. Rajai Davis did had a great catch grabbing a ball just before it hit the ground to rob Billy Butler to lead off the eighth inning and had a hit and was apart of a great pitcher's duel between Brandon Morrow and Ervin Santana. Brandon Morrow went 6 innings and gave up two runs on 6 hits with 3 ks and a walk and throw 2 strikes to ever a ball he throw and he got into a little trouble in the third inning as Jarrod Dyson tripled to Rajai Davis and got almost out of it when he got Chris Getz foul out and Alex Gordon hit it back to the mound and he was able to keep the run from scoring but then Alcides Escobar hit a sac fly to tie up the game. In the sixth he gave an one out single to Salvador Perez and then two out singles to both Eric Hosmer and Lorenzo Cain who got the RBI to tie up the game at 2. Ervin Santana went 8 innings and gave up 7 hits and 3 walks and his problem was Edwin who was just at the plate to make things happen for the Jays and if he had not hit a ball to far left we most likely talking about a Jays sweep of the Royals. Melky Cabrera was the only Jays hitter that had 2 hits of the Jays 7 hits in the game while Alex Gordon and Lorenzo Cain both had two of the Royals 10 hits. So in the daily Jose Reyes story line it looks like Brett Lawrie will be trying to play second base and if it works Bautista will stay at third. Mark Buehrle will face his former team the White Soxs tomorrow night Tom Mehegan

R.A. Dickey produces a quality start for the Jays

R.A. Dickey went into the seventh inning and became the first Jays starter to get an out in the seventh inning this season and finished with a very quick 6.1 inning performance and just gave a run on 5 hits. Jays behind the performance of R.A. Dickey the Jays went onto win 3-2 and are now 5 and 6 and looking to come home with a sweep of the Royals and a .500 record. The Jays faced James Shield and just like he did as a Tampa Ray just baffled the Jays bats and the Jays only had 2 hits in the game as Shields went the whole game and his only problem was that he allowed 5 bases runners and three of them scored. Maicer Izturis got the first hit for the game in the third inning by doubling to open the inning and R.A.'s personal catcher Henry Blanco moved him to third with a sac fly to right field and then Jose Reyes replacement from Buffalo Munenori Kawasaki had a RBI sac fly to bring home Izturis to put the Jays up 1-0. In the sixth inning Munenori Kawasaki was at it again as he walked to lead off the inning and moved to second on an one out ground ball by Melky Cabrera and took third on a wild pitch but then it did not matter as he walked home as Jose Bautista crushed his third homer of the season to left field to give the Jays a 3-0 lead that they would not give up. R.A. Dickey had problems in the first inning as he gave up a double to Salvador Perez after walking Billy Butler but got a line out by Lorenzo Cain to end the inning but in the seventh inning on his 100Th pitch of the game gave up a double to Jarrod Dyson and it sent Dickey to the showers. Darren Oliver came in and on his first pitch Jarrod Dyson stole third on him and on the next pitch Chris Getz bunted him home and made it safely to fiirst as Isturis could not cover first quick enough. If R.A. pitched quick than Sergio Santos was the opposite as he was pitching in quick sand in the eighth inning even though he did not give up a run but did walk the first batter before getting the next two before Brett Cecil came in and baffled Mike Moustakas as he k'd him looking as the crowd told the ump what they thought of every pitch Cecil as they booed every strike call. Casey Janssen came in for the save in the ninth and it looked like his only problem he was going to have was not wearing the right jersey as he was wearing the gray one and had to change to the blue one before finishing his warm-up in the bullpen. He got two quick outs before given up back-to-back singles to Chris Getz and Alex Gordon the Royals got their second run of the game as Getz went to second on indifference and scored on Gorden's single but Alcides Escoba flied out to give Janssen his third save of the season. Jose Reyes will not be ready at least until after the all-star break so the Jays have a big hole to fill Tom Mehegan

Jose Reyes stretchered off in Jays big win

The Jays took advantage of three Royals errors in a 8-4 victory and the story should be something like Arron Loup picking the final three innings and going through the Royals lineup 9 up and 9 down for his first save of his career or that J.A. Happ after throwing 41 pitches and given up 3 runs on 3 hits with two walks throw only 45 pitches over the next three innings and battled through the fifth to pick up the win. But instead it is all about Jose Reyes after collecting a two-run single to put the Jays 8-4 up in sixth inning and he then got a great jump on stealing second base and everything would been fine except that he was watching the throw from the plate and when realized that he had to slide he was too close to the base and slide feet first and his left leg ended up awkwardly under him and he was safe at second but in extreme pain. To say this not go that Reyes was in a tone of pain and covering up his face as the trainer worked on him for a guy who has been an injury free player since coming into the league in '03 with the Mets is not a good thing. Reyes has been the Jays only reliable bat this season as he is the only Jays player to reach base in all of the Jays 10 games when nobody else has been basically hitting their weight and having a 9 game hit streak with 15 hits is impressive especially when u see of his 15 hits this season which dwarfs everybody else. The mos impressive thing about Reyes numbers for a team that has a number of players that if they do not hit it out of the ballpark it is an out Reyes has not gotten a homer this season. All this put together with the news that the Jays are saying that it is an ankle sprain and that he is going for x-rays is bad because right now for some reason they have decided to go with the Leafs cover-up idea and it maybe just like Brett Lawrie and they may not give the paying fans the straight truth and sugar coat it. At least Lawrie is batting and hopefully be back sometime soon but it is likely a long time before seeing Jose Reyes in a Jays uniform Tom Mehegan

Jays use small ball to battle to beat Tigers

Jays behind some bad defense and some bad relief pitching from Brad Lincoln fell behind the Detroit Tigers 6-1 after 5 innings and Mark Buehrle was on the receiving end of this bad luck as he gave up 6 runs (5 earned) on 9 hits with two walks (one intentional) in only 4.2 inning pitched and throw 94 pitches. After given up a RBI on a Prince Fielder ground out in the first inning to give the Tigers a 1-0 lead but in the second inning he suffered an unearned run when outfielder Emilio Bonifacio who is playing second base for the Jays had his fourth error of the season on a ground ball off the bat of Matt Tuiasosopo and it would been a quick 1-2-3 inning and instead he throw an extra five pitches including a RBI single from Omar Infante to give the Tigers a 2-0 lead. After a clean third and fourth inning Buehrle had only had given up a walk but Omar Infante shot a ball on a ground ball that got past Second baseman Maicer Izturis who is playing third for the Jays and then after a ground out by Austin Jackson he gave up a RBI single to Torii Hunter and then a double to Miguel Cabrera and loaded the bases with the intentional walk to Fielder and Brad Lincoln came in and walked the first two batters he faced and then had Jhonny Peralta nub a ball into nowhere land for a RBI single and then got two quick outs to not allow a run of his own. The Jays finally started their climb up the Tiger mountain by putting together sour straight hits without a homer to open the Sixth inning and it was finished off by Edwin Encarnacion who had broken a 0 for 19 spell in the fourth inning with a double had a two-run double to cut the lead to 6-3 and then Mark DeRosa came off the bench with a RBI double on the first pitch he saw from Darin Downs who had just come in for Starter Rick Porcello and it was 6-4 going to the Seventh inning. In the seventh with one on and one out Brayan Villarreal came into the game and like Lincoln he could not throw a strike to save his life and did not one or two batters to start but instead he walked three in a row to score Melky Cabrera to make it 6-5 and J.P. put the finishing touch on the comeback with a three-run double that bounced off the top of the fence instead of bouncing over and it put an extra run onto the Jays lead as they took a 8-6 lead. Jays finally got great pitching from their bullpen as Aaron Loup came and gave up two single but no runs in the sixth and pitched the sixth and picked up the win as Cecil came in for the Seventh and only gave up an one out single to Jhonny Peralta. Then Darren Oliver came in and took care of the Tigers 1-2-3 but did have a scary moment as Austin Jackson on his second pitch of the inning hit the ball off Oliver and it went straight for first base but Oliver took a few warm-up pitches and stayed in and Casey Janssen came in for the ninth and got Prince Fielder and Victor Martinez looking before Andy Dirks lined out to Maicer Izturis to end the game and picked up his second save of the season. Adam Lind was the only starter to not get a hit and Edwin Encarnacion had two hits along with Melky and J.P. Tom Mehegan

Brandon Morrow has two out problems while the bats are dead

Brandon Morrow pitched only 3.2 innings as he gave up 5 runs on 9 hits and the Jays were trailing 5-1 when he left the game and the Jays fell hard falling to the Tigers 7-3 with Miguel Cabrera went 4 for 5 with a dagger of a three-run homer while Torii Hunter went 3 for 5 and hit his 2,000Th in the sixth inning with a single. Morrow was hurt by trying to get that ultimate third out of an inning where the Tigers went 6 of 8 with two walks and four RBIs after getting two quick outs. In the first he gave up a two out single to Miguel Cabrera and a Prince Fielder RBI double and in the fourth inning with two quick outs he gave up back-to-back two out singles to Austin Jackson and Torii Hunter and then Miguel Cabrera on Morrow's last pitch got smashed for a three-run homer. J.P. Arencibia smoked a ball over the left field fence but Don Kelly brought it back into the ballpark and it would of tied the game 1-1 to open the second inning and instead it was an extremely long and loud first out of the second inning. Jose Reyes went 2 for 4 and is hitting .444 on the season and J.P. is the next highest batting average @ .296 with no other everyday player is over Meiky Cabrera's .250 batting average after his 3 for 4 day and both Reyes and Cabrera had a RBI in the game. On the bad side of the Jays batting right now is Colby Rasmus has only 4 hits on the season and in the ninth inning his fourth hit of the season was a solo homer and now he has three homers and a double on the season while Adam Lind has only a single hit in 16 at bats coming into his pinch hit double and now is hitting a lofty .118 in 17 at-bats this season. So the Jays are having trouble if your name is not Jose Reyes getting anything more than a homer as J.P. has 3 homers and almost 4 in his 8 almost 9 hits on the season but I guess there is good news with Jose Bautista back in the lineup after missing the Boston series even though he has 2 homers in his 3 hits on the season as he is hitting .188. Jays need to find away to get runners on base and play a little bit of small ball as homers are exciting to watch but it is not the way u want to score all your runs Tom Mehegan

John Farrell gets what he deserves as he returns to T.O.

John Farrell returned to Toronto and he left as a complete ass as he said that he was "traded" when everyone knew he wanted to go to his "dream job" i.e. the Boston Red Soxs and then when he came back to the city today he got into Mike Wilner's face who is the third man in the radio booth for the Blue Jays and said that Wilner has asked for him to be booed and that is outrageous. The fans themselves were respectful to Farrell until the ninth inning when Jeremy Jefferies came in out of the bullpen and served up a juicy fastball to Will Middlebrooks who lead-off the ninth inning was a solo jack to give the Red Soxs a 6-4 lead that they went onto win the game by. In the ninth inning a small group of fans in the left field corner started a "beep u Farrell chant" chant that was only time that things got non-pg which is an extremely good change as things like this just run games like this. So when they said the magical words of "Here is the Boston Red Soxs starting lineup managed by" and the boos rained down very hard and then during the exchange of the lineup cards he came out got booed a couple of times. As the game started the crowd was not n'sync as part of the crowd did a "Farr-ell" chant while another part went with a "Ellsbury" chant while another part of the crowd went with a "let's go Blue Jays" chant. It was a vocal crowd but in the fourth when with one out Emilio Bonifacio on back to back ground balls by Shane Victorino and Jackie Bradley had throwing errors and it cost the Jays a run and in the fifth Mike Napoli with a Dustin Pedroia single on slammed a two-run homer to put the Soxs up 4-1 and the crowd was completely dead. In the bottom the fifth Mark DeRosa lead-off the inning was a long drive that bounced off the top of the wall and went over and the crowd was jacked again with the "Farr-ell" chant and they finally got the waive going and it was a long time coming as fans were trying it early and often. The Jays put up another run in the inning as Jose Reyes went 4 of 5 and in the inning had a RBI triple and was stranded there as the tying run and the Red Soxs trailed 4-3 and then he tied the game with a solo jack in the 7TH inning to tie it at 4. When Adam Lind was still looking for his firsat hit with runners on first and second it was at a fear pitch and he flied out to Ellsbury and with people on their feet Maicer Izturis flied to him to end the eighth and things went down the drain and it sad to let Farrell get the leg up on the Jays. 45 thousand in the stands were awesome but the handful over that was the sick ones Tom Mehegan

J.P. Arencibia powers Jays to win first game of season

J.P. Arencibia hit two homers in a 10-8 slug feast against the pesty Indians who thankfully are finally leaving the city as the Jays gave up the first run of the game in the top of the first as Jays starter Mark Buehrle gave up back-to-back doubles with Nick Swisher getting a RBI double with two outs as he started the inning with two straight ks to open the game. Jose Bautista hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the inning to get ahead 2-1 and then in the third J.P. Arencibia's first solo shot of the game put up the Jays 3-1. After 12-pitch and 6-pitch second and third respectively Mark Buehrle gave up back-to-back homers to Carlos Santana and Mark Reynolds in the fourth to tie the game at 3 and after Edwin Encarnacion hit his first homer of the season which was a three-run homer in the fifth inning Buehrle unraveled with a walk to Nick Swisher and Michael Brantley got hit by a pitch to open the inning and Carlos Santana cashed in a run and with one out and his last pitch was to Lonnie Chisenhall which was a two-run double to tie up the game. Mark Buehrle pitched 5.1 innings and he gave up 6 runs on 7 hits and k'd 4 but in his first start of the season was not the real Buehrle and he will get stronger as the season goes along. In the bottom of the sixth the Jays put up a three spot that put the Jays up 9-6 and it was there to stay as J.P. hit his second lead-off homer of the game and then Colby Rasmus got his first hit of the season as he hit a solo homer after the pitch before hitting it long but foul. Then finally the Jays scored a run not on the home-run ball for the first time all season as the Jays when Emilio Bonifacio doubled and scored on a throwing error by Mark Raynolds on a ground ball by Melkey Cabrera as the first 11 runs over the first 25.2 innings were all on homers. The Indians got a run on a Mark Reynolds on a RBI single off of Esmil Rogers in the seventh and Jason Kipnis got a RBI double in the eighth against Darren Oliver but Casey Janssen came in in the ninth and shutdown the Indians for the second inning of the game that an Indian did not reach base as the second inning way the only other inning they went down one-two-three and it only took him 11 pitches and he k'd two batters as he collected his first save of the season. The Jays collected 9 hits in the game which was the amount of hits they collected in total during the first two games of the series while those pesty Indians collected 14 hits in the game and remember Tito (terry Franconia) is the guy that broke the Babe Ruth curse for the Red Soxs. Enemy no. 1 John Farrell is back tomorrow and will be welcomed with a circus environment Tom Mehegan

Sergio Santos unable to help Jays get first win

Sergio Santos came in for the 11Th inning after pitching in the opener so he was pitching on back-to-back games and he got ahead Mark Reynolds with two strikes but he left a pitch up high over the plate and he crushed it to give the Indians a 3-2 victory. The Indians was knocking on the door all night but Jays starter Brandon Morrow was able to use his ability to strike out batters to help get out of problems and he used three of his 8 ks in the second inning as he gave up back-to-back singles to open the inning and then struck out three straight indians to get out of the Indians. In the third he gave up a lead off double to Michael Bourn and then got two outs but he then walked Nick Swisher and Michael Brantley singled in the first run of the game and then struck out Carlos Santana to end the inning. The Jays got even with a Maicer Izturis with a lead off homer in the bottom of the inning but in the eighth inning he gave the run back to the Indians as he kept a ball in the infield off the bat of Carlos Santana with runners on first and second with one out and stepped on third for a force play and then throw in a hurry to first for an inning ending double play but throw it over Edwin Encarnacion's head and Michael Brantley scored to go up 2-1. Jose Bautista hit a two-out solo homer in the bottom of the ninth to send the game into extra innings and hitting into double plays in his first two at-bats. Brandon Morrow pitched 6 innings and gave up a run on 6 hits and two walks to go with eight ks and he helped the Jays pitching keep the Indians off the board with runners in scoring position as they went 1 for 13 in the RISP situation. The bullpen brought the heat as Delabar, Rogers, Oliver, Janssen, and Santos k'd 3 more Indians and gave four hits and two walks but the hits just were the wrong ones. The Jays hitters tied a franchise low of 9 total hits in the first two games and struggled to get a runner in scoring position as a Jay never got to second base except for the two solo homers. Jays got almost 25 thousand but are still look for win # 1 Tom Mehegan

Jays get a wake-up to open the season

The Jays did not expect to go 162-0 and realized that losing open day was a possibility but it still a not so nice wake-up call to the Jays 25 man roster and so players did not expect what they got: Like R.A. Dickey who in s game where he is down 2-1 in the fifth inning gives up a long fly ball to Asdrubal Cabrera and it carried and it carried and it carried into the Indians bullpen as Dickey throws up his hands like that real happened. Cabrera himself as he hits tthe ball felt like he got under it and was talking to himself as he was leaving the batter's box so nether that it was gone but the two-run homer put the Indians up 4-1 and that would be how it would stay. Adam Lind in the third inning of a 2-0 game and the bases juiced and no outs hits the ball on the screws but Asdrubal Cabrera dived and started a double play that scored the Jays run of the game. It also started 20 straight Jays being retired in order as Justin Masterson struggled to get his first 8 outs of the game as he gave up 3 hits and 4 walks over the first 3 plus innings and throw 64 pitches before getting the double play and after throw 39 pitches to pitch another 3.1 innings of no-hit ball for the Indians. J.P. Arencibia got a rude awakening as he allowed thee pass balls all with a runner on first setting up a double play and Dickey would get that ground ball and one of Dickey's two runs in the second inning was unearned and he gave up 4 runs (3 earned) on 5 hits and four walks and a wild pitch over 6 innings with 4ks. Jose Reyes got a rude awakening in the bottom of the first as he was standing on first base with a walk on four pitches and Melky Cabrera lined out to Asdrubal Cabrera who doubled up Reyes at first as he was on his way to second on contact and Bautista followed with a single and Edwin got hit by the next pitch and the bases would of been juiced for Lind again but with 2 outs he got k'd to end the inning. So lets hope that Brandon Morrow's fast ball is a wake-up call to the Indians Tom Mehegan