Saturday, April 20, 2013
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
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