Esmil Rogers does everything that the Jays need him to do and more

Esmil Rogers who has come out of the bullpen like Luis Perez and Carlos Villanueva in spades for the Jays when they need it the most with starters Josh Johnson and J.A. Happ along Brandon Morrow not able to make some of their starts this season Rogers has been put into the fire. For a guy that they got for John Farrell (Mike Avila) and Yan Gomez (the first Brazilian major league baseball player) it has turned out to be a great deal and has taken some of the bitter taste of Mike Avila being another player that did not want to play in Canada. So in 6 starts he has gotten stronger especially over his first 4 starts going from a three-hitter over 3.1 innings against Atlanta to a 1 run on 3 hit effort against Texas and then faced Texas again and out dueled Yu Darvish with a 7 inning victory with a run on 5 hit performance which was followed by a 2 runs on 4 performance against the Rockies over 6.1 innings. He then like most other Jays died in the dead stadium that the Rays play in St. Pete's and gave up back-to-back-to-back homers to the Rays in the second and pulled through it pitching another 4 innings and left given up the three runs on 7 hits. So today going into Fenway after Wong and Johnson just could not handle the heat with Wong given up 7 in 1.1 innings and Josh Johnson going 3.1 and gave up 5 and not able to help the Jays bullpen it was up to Rogers to create the relief the bullpen needed with a 6 hit shutout over 6 innings and behind the great d help he got behind him with amazing head first dive by Colby Rasmus in the fifth stealing a hit along with a RBI from the Red Sox's Jonathan Diaz with one out and a runner on second the Jays carried a very tiny 2-0 lead into the Seventh. Jose Bautista did everything for the Jays he throw out Shane Victorino in the sixth for the first out of the sixth as J.P. Arencibia blocked the plate and tagged him out and with runners on the corners Rogers struck out Mike Napoli and Daniel Nava back-to-back to end his day at 100 pitches. Offensively Bautista reached base four times as he walked and stole second and on a Edwin Encarnacion single was out at third but not before he got in a run down to make sure Edwin was at second which setup an Adam Lind RBI single to make it 1-0 Jays. In the sixth Bautista doubles the lead by playing with the cars in the parking lot a he launched a 2-0 fastball to left field and right out of Fenway to make it 2-0 Jays. Then the Jays stellar bullpen starting with Darren Oliver came in and the soxs took a real liken to him as Jarrod Saltalamacchia crushed the first pitch he saw to the wall and Rajai Davis played it perfectly and was only a single and Jose Iglesias on the next pitch got a bunt single to Maicer Izturis who throw the ball away so Saltalamacchia got to third. A couple of pitches later Jonathan Diaz bunted a ball back to Oliver who throw homw and J.P. blocked the plate for the first out of the inning as he got run over by Saltalamacchia but held onto the ball to keep it 2-0. Then Steve Delabar came in throwing heat but Jacoby Ellsbury singled to load the bases and Shane Victorino singled home two to tie the game and then Delabar got Dustin Pedroia to fly out dto Bautista and David Ortiz got k'd to end the inning. Bautista was not done as he smoked a ball on top of the monster in the eighth for a two-run shot off Junichi Tazawa to make it 4-2 and in the ninth J.P. Arencibia got some justice as finally got a hit as he eat up Mike Napoli behind first base and went to second when Napoli misses the ball and it went down the first baseline and Jose drove him home as he scratched a ball through third baseman Jonathan Diaz which should of been his fourth rib of the day but it was called an error and he caught at third trying to stretch it to third and the Jays win 6-2. Mike Napoli had a very tough day at the office he got k'd four times as the Jays worked most pitches inside and then go away for the k but he does have 5 homers and 13 rbis in 10 games so the error not feel as bad but probably does. Delabar pick up the win going 1.2 innings and 4ks as k'd the Sox's 1-2-3 in the eighth and now Buehrle will be looking for the split in Beantown Tom mehgan