Saturday, June 8, 2013

Dustin McGowan road back to Major League was as long as Jays win in 18 innings

Dustin McGowan came in the tenth inning of a 3-3 and faced four batters and retired only one and loaded bases in his first major league appearance since September 28TH, 2011 and in the last 32 month he has been injured with a right shoulder and an injured foot. He did very well today on the mound after he walked his leadoff hitter Lance Berkman he got a double play ball off the bat of Adrian Beltre to Mark DeRozan but he dropped the ball twice and everybody was safe and then hit Nelson Cruz to load the bases and then faced Jeff Baker the same guy who broke up Dustin McGowan's no-hitter on July 24,2007 as a Jay against the Rockies during his best season in the majors and McGowan struck him out and then was lifted for Juan Perez who got an inning ending double play off the bat of Leonys Martin. The game lasted 18 innings and in the 18 inning with the Rangers Ross Wolf who pitched the last 7inning until he tried to pick off attempt of Emilio Bonifacio at second base and he throw it away and he ended up at third and Rajai Davis drove him home with a single to win the game. The Jays were silent in the game as they had 15 hits in 17.2 inning game and they got a huge two-run triple by Colby Rasmus in the third inning and came home on a throwing error on Jurickson Profar as he tried to get Rasmus at third and throw it into the crowd and the Jays held onto that 3-0 lead til the seventh inning as Mark Buehrle gave up only two hits going into the inning and then gave up a solo shot to Jeff Baker and a double to Craig Gentry and finished seven strong of four hit ball. In the ninth inning Casey Janssen came in try to cement down his 13 save of the season and first time this season he failed as he gave up an one out single to Leonys Martin and most importantly his second walk of the season to David Murphy as he came around and tied up the game as he scored on a sac fly by Elvis Andrus after A. J. Pierzynski singled home by Leonys Martin. The Crowd of over 44 thousand was there to see Yu Darvish who pitched 7 innings and gave up hits to only two batters as he gave up two hits to Colby Rasmus and 3 of the 4 hits that Adam Lind had was against Darvish who gave up 3 runs on those 5 hits. Adam Lind is now hitting .342 and is hitting .500 (13 of 26) in 6 June games and 27 of 56 in his last 14 games Jays should ask for next Saturday as they play 17 innings last week and 18 today Tpm Mehegan

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