Adam Lind had a great first half but maybe a question mark in the second half of 2012

Adam Lind was off the charts with his numbers (.329 batting average, 11 homers, 12 doubles, 33 RBIs in 67 games) in his first half and was a well rounded player and cleanup hitter and played some solid first baseman. Then in the 81St game of the regular season which is the half way point of the 2012 regular season for the Blue Jays he had to pull himself out of the lineup to start the bottom of the third for Josh Thole with a stiff back which is nagging injury and will be day-to-day but it will be an on going injury will likely be in and out of the lineup from day-to-day. The Jays diffidently missed him as they battled back from a Red Sox three-run second inning by getting a Jose Bautista solo jack with one out in the top of the ninth to tie the game at 4 and Josh Thole had a ground ball off the bat of Shane Victorino with runners on first and second with one out and he booted it and winning run scored from second instead of it being the second out to take it 5-4 and 3 of 4 from the Jays. It could of been a two-run go ahead homer as the Red Sox's Shane Victorino made a diving catch off the bat of Jose Reyes to open the ninth inning and it would of been time for Casey Janssen to shut it down and instead Juan Perez came in from the pen and gave up an one out singled and followed it up with a walk and ended up being the losing pitcher. Mark Buehrle after given up 3 runs on four hits in the second inning and after he hit Jacoby Ellsbury with one out in the inning he set down 8 straight Sox hitters and he battled through 6 innings and only gave up a run on 3 hits over his last 3.2 inning pitched and he showed that he can stay focused and when things go bad unlike Wong and Johnson were unable to regain their stuff when it went bad in the first two games of the Sox series. Jose Bautista is heating up going into the second half as he has had 5 hits including three homers and has reached base 5 times in the last two games and will need to pick up the slack with absence of Adam Lind as he may not be an everyday player like he was in the first half except for his injury in the first half. R.A. Dickey will need to put his best foot forward tomorrow against the high powered Detroit Tigers in front of a sod out crowd at the Rogers Centre which is not the 50 plus thousand that it was in the beginning of the Rogers Centre (late 80's and early 90's) but it will be a loud crowd and the environment will be awesome. Great 18-9 June but they needed a better road trip falling 5 of the 7 games against the Rays and the Sox Tom Mehegan 7.Shane Victorino