Saturday, April 27, 2013

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

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