Monday, April 15, 2013
Mark Buehrle shows what he can do
Mark Buehrle started very slowly by given 2 runs on 4 hits in the first inning and the Jays were down 2 before even taken a swing at Gavin Floyd and then he settled down against the very familiar foe of the Chicago White Soxs and went another 5.1 and gave up only 5 more hits the rest of the way and did not give up another run. It was the first time that Buehrle has faced the team he pitched for the first 12 seasons of his outstanding career and he a pit bull after the first inning nerves and showed Jays faces what they should expect from Buehrle who has pitched over 200 innings the past 12 seasons and he is getting stronger and will be going deeper into games from here.
So with Buehrle folding the Soxs the Jays bats went at Gavin Floyd as Emilio Bonifacio doubled to open to the game and moved to third on a pass ball and came home on a sac fly from Melky Cabrera. With Jose Bautista sitting tonight J.P. on the three spot rocked a solo homer to tie the game at 2 in the first and they kept on Floyd in the inning as Edwin Encarnacion and Adam Lind continued the hitting game with a single and double respectfully but then Floyd k'd DeRosa and Colby Rasmus to end the inning.
The Jays continued to take Floyd deep in the second as Maicer Izturis lead off with a homer and then in the fourth Munenori Kawasaki continued to show why he wants to stay with the Jays as he tripled and continues to love playing and Emilio Bonifacio drove him home for the winning run with a sac fly making it 4-2.
The Bullpen of Esmil Rogers, Arron Loup, and Casey Janssen who gave up only one hit in the last 2.2 inning with Esmil Rogers facing only two batters and getting them out and Arron Loup hit Adam Dunn and gave up a double to Dayan Viciedo with one out and battled back to only give up a sac fly RBI to Alexei Ramirez to make it 4-3 but Loup k'd Tyler Flowers to end the eighth inning. Casey Janssen came into shutdown the Soxs after falling behind Conor Gillaspie 3 and 0 and k'd him on the next three pitches and throw 5 strikes in a row and 6 of 7 to k Alejandro De Aza and with enemy # 1 Alex Rios on deck he got Jeff Keppinger to ground out to Munenori Kawasaki who throw him out to end the game.
Edwin Encarnacion continues to heat up with three more hits and Adam Lind got a two hit game and a walk and they had half of the 10 Jays hits.
Jays have won 3 of the last 4 games to stay close to the rest of the East
Tom Mehegan
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