Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Sergio Santos unable to help Jays get first win

Sergio Santos came in for the 11Th inning after pitching in the opener so he was pitching on back-to-back games and he got ahead Mark Reynolds with two strikes but he left a pitch up high over the plate and he crushed it to give the Indians a 3-2 victory. The Indians was knocking on the door all night but Jays starter Brandon Morrow was able to use his ability to strike out batters to help get out of problems and he used three of his 8 ks in the second inning as he gave up back-to-back singles to open the inning and then struck out three straight indians to get out of the Indians. In the third he gave up a lead off double to Michael Bourn and then got two outs but he then walked Nick Swisher and Michael Brantley singled in the first run of the game and then struck out Carlos Santana to end the inning. The Jays got even with a Maicer Izturis with a lead off homer in the bottom of the inning but in the eighth inning he gave the run back to the Indians as he kept a ball in the infield off the bat of Carlos Santana with runners on first and second with one out and stepped on third for a force play and then throw in a hurry to first for an inning ending double play but throw it over Edwin Encarnacion's head and Michael Brantley scored to go up 2-1. Jose Bautista hit a two-out solo homer in the bottom of the ninth to send the game into extra innings and hitting into double plays in his first two at-bats. Brandon Morrow pitched 6 innings and gave up a run on 6 hits and two walks to go with eight ks and he helped the Jays pitching keep the Indians off the board with runners in scoring position as they went 1 for 13 in the RISP situation. The bullpen brought the heat as Delabar, Rogers, Oliver, Janssen, and Santos k'd 3 more Indians and gave four hits and two walks but the hits just were the wrong ones. The Jays hitters tied a franchise low of 9 total hits in the first two games and struggled to get a runner in scoring position as a Jay never got to second base except for the two solo homers. Jays got almost 25 thousand but are still look for win # 1 Tom Mehegan

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