Scorecard: May 18, 2011 Tampa Bay Rays at Toronto Blue Jays - Game 1 of 2

From Rogers Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Rays (24-18) at Jays (21-20) - Game 1

First pitch: 7:07 PM EST

Starting pitchers:
Tampa Bay - Jeremy Hellickson
Toronto - Jesse Litsch

Radio day here again today - for all us loser basic-cable, regular Rogers Sportsnet subscribers.

I'm really starting to like these radio-only games - it has a more ethereal feel. The ESPN Play by Play widget is humming - up-dating across the world every 30 seconds while I'm posting the scorecard to the internet live every half inning, the site reloading every 90 seconds --- meanwhile I'm listening to the game on an old school 50,000 watt transmitter located 35 miles across Lake Ontario in Grimsby, that probably doesn't reach much past Buffalo, New York to the south and Barrie, Ontario to the north.

Reference "Radio Station Antennas" - http://radios.2y.net/antenna_towers.html


Umpires:

Home - Mike Dimuro
3B - Jim Reynolds
2B - Andy Fletcher
1B - Tim Welke

Is it a full moon? Must be. Look at the numerology of the tallies... must be. Was, yesterday ---> http://kalender-365.de/lunar-calendar.php

Line-ups and pitching stats from ESPN (box score).

Colour Legend (as of this date)

Red is an out Pink are un-earned bases - Wild Pitch, Passed Ball or an Error Yellow is Intentional Base on Balls, Defensive Indifference or Fielder's Choice Neon Green is a Base Hit Forest Green is a runner advanced by a Base Hit or a Sacrifice Neon Blue is a Stolen Base Navy Blue is a base earned via a Hit or a Sacrifice, that results in a Run Scored

Box Score - Final	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Runs	Hits	Errors	LOB
Tampa Bay Rays	0	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0			6	8	1	9
Toronto Blue Jays	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	0			5	6	5 (6)	6

Tampa Bay Rays	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
1.  S Fuld LF	B  (7:08) SX 4-3	SAC RBI Bunt E3th 3-4 #8 3,H	pop FO6 /			Villanueva + BH7 short		K /
2.  B Zobrist 2B	BCBB B BB	FO7		FO9		GB4 DP 4-6-3 #1 out			Frasor + 3UA
3.  J Damon DH	CCFX LD3 E3 dropped np	3UA /		SB BH9		Ks /			BB
4.  E Longoria 3B	BBCF BX LD! 5 DP 5-4 #3 out /		RS HBP	#3 SB n-th FO7			Ks		2BH7 #3 1,3
5.  M Joyce RF		RS BB	RS 2RBI HR #4 1,H	CBBF X FO7 /			Ks		IBB
6.  B Upton CF		RS (#8 Eth9) HBP #5 1,2	RS (#8 sac) BH8		FO8		Ks /		FBBF BFC K
7.  C Kotchman 1B		GB4 DP dropped 4-3 #5, #6 1b	Eth 1-3 #6 1,3 IFBH3		FO7			Janssen + 6-3	FBBS BX FO9 /
8.  E Johnson SS		RS (#1 sac bunt) RBI BH9 line #5 3,H E9th,E1th #6 3,H	SAC RBI WP #7 1,2 FO8		3BH8			Bunt 3AU
9.  J Jaso C		#1 sac bunt BB	FO8		Ks /			GB3 E3
Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB	0 0 0 1	3 1 0 1	3 3 0 1	0 1 0 1	0 1 1 1	0 1 0 0	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 1	0 1 0 3			6 8 1 9

Rays Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
Jeremy Hellickson	5.2	5	4	3	3	6	0	89/54	3.18
Jaun Cruz	0.2	0	0	0	1	0	0	12/6	2.70
Cesar Ramos	0.1	0	0	0	1	1	0	11/4	4.05
Joel Peralta	1.1	0	0	0	0	1	0	13/7	2.82
Kyle Farnsworth	1.0	1	1	1	0	1	0	12/10	1.76

Toronto Blue Jays	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
1.  Y Escobar SS	Ks		6-3 /		FO7 /		BB		SAC RBI GB6 6-3 #8 3,H
2.  C Patterson LF	pop FO3f			RS 3BH8		RS 2BH9	Ramos + Ks		CSBF C K / (10:25 pm)
3.  J Bautista RF	HB7			FC BB		FO! 7!	Setting up a  match-up with Hill. IBB
4.  A Hill 2B	Ks /			SB SAC RBI FC 5-4 #3 out #2 3,H		RS 2BH7 #2 2,H	Peralta + FO9! /
5.  E Encarnacion 1B		pop FO3f		#4 SB K		pop FO5		pop FO4
6.  J Arencibia C		Ks		pop FO4 /		BB		pop FO2f
7.  E Thames DH (major League debut)		K /			RS (#9 DP) BB	RBI BH8 #4 2,H #6 1,2		Ks /
8.  R Davis CF			Ks		GB4 E4 #7 1,2	Cruz + 4-1 /			Farnsworth + RS 2BH8
9.  J Nix 3B			6-3		DP 6-4-3 #7 2,H #8 out		FO7		#8 SB pop FO2f
Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB	0 1 1 1	0 0 3 0	0 0 1 0	1 1 0 1	1 0 0 0	2 3 0 2	0 0 0 2	0 0 1 0	1 1 0 0			5 6 6 6

Jays Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
Jesse Litsch	5.0	7	6	5	3	1	1	111/68	4.66
Carlos Villanueva	2.0	1	0	0	0	4	0	25/17	1.48
Casey Janssen	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	13/10	1.53
Jason Frasor	1.0	1	0	0	2	1	0	30/13	1.53