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