Thursday, April 18, 2013
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
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