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