Scorecard: May 4, 2011 Toronto Blue Jays at Tampa Bay Rays - Game 2 of 3

From Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida Jays at Rays - Game 2

First pitch: 6:40 PM EST


Starting pitchers:

Toronto - Brandon Morrow
Tampa Bay - Jeff Niemann

Umpires:   
Home - Chad Fairchild
3B - Paul Schrieber
2B - Angel Hernandez
1B - Joe West


Listening to the game on the FAN590 Toronto, with Jerry Howarth and Alan Ashby calling.

The Umpires put themselves right in the middle of this one. For the second night the official scorer was generous, for both sides.

Tomorrow it's get-away-day for the rubber match of this series - first pitch: 1:10 PM EST - Kyle Drabek vs David Price.

Should be a good one.  I'll be scorekeeping - hope to see you here.

Line-ups and pitching stats via ESPN (boxscore).

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	Runs	Hits	Errors	LOB
Toronto Blue Jays	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	8	1	6
Tampa Bay Rays	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	7	0	10

Toronto Blue Jays	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
1.  R Davis RF	#2 SB RS IFBH6	BX FO7 /	Allen Ashby PbyP	6-3 /	Jerry on PbP		FO8
2.  C Patterson CF	#1 1,2 pop FO2f		BFSF X FO9		Xbunt Sonnan- stine + Bunt 1 1-3		GB3 3UA /
3.  Y Escobar SS	6-3		CbBB X 5-3		BBBC X FO9			Juan Cruz + Maddon ejected by J West for continuing to argrue the call at 1B in the 7th. Bunt 1 1-3
4.  A Lind 1B	RS 2RBI HR9 #1 2,H		CX BH8		CBX BH7			BH8
5.  J Rivera LF	2BH9(8)		X pop FO4 /		X 5-3 /			FO9
6.  E Encarnacion 3B	HBP			CX BH7		BX 5-3		FO9 /
7.  D Cooper DH	4-3 /			2BH9		BX FO8			Russell + K
8.  J Molina C		BX LDGB5 5-3		SAC bunt 5 2-3 #7 2,3		X FO7 /			K
9.  J McDonald 2B		FCBB FBX 5-3		6-3			Bunt 5 5-3		pop FO1 /
Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB	2 3 0 2	0 0 0 0	0 1 0 1	1 2 0 1	0 1 0 1	0 0 0 0	0 0 1 0	0 1 0 1	0 0 0 0	3 8 1 6

Jays Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
Brandon Morrow	6.1	5	1	1	4	7	0	107/67	3.06
Jason Frasor	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4-3	1.98
Marc Rzepczynski	1.1	1	0	0	0	3	0	16/11	2.45
Frank Francisco	1.0	1	1	1	2	2	0	26/14	2.64

Tampa Bay Rays	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
1.  S Fuld LF	1-3		CFS Ks /		Buntf BX FO7 /		Frasor + Farrell thrown by Chad Fairchild. Umps review the play at first and determin amongst themselves that Lind applied the tag - video apparently shows the tag was late, the runner had reached 1B before the tag. LDGB5 FC 5UA DP 5-3tag /		BBBC CX GB4 BH9 (E4) #7 2,H #9 1,3
2.  B Zobrist 2B	BBBB #3 FC BB			CFC K		#3 FO 9-5 2BH8 RS		Ks	3UA /
3.  J Damon DH	FBFF X #4 CS GB3 FC 3-6 /			FX #4 7-6-2 LD BH7		FO9 9-5 safe!		BH8
4.  E Longoria 3B	C*B *pass ball off Molina's glove 10' to the first base side *#3 CS 2-6	BBBB BB		X LD 2BH7 wall 7-6-2 #3 out		BB		K
5.  M Joyce RF		CSBS Ks		bounder 3 BH (E3?)		CC SAC RBI FO8 8-4		Ks /
6.  B Upton CF		SBFS Ks		K /		K /			CBCC Francisco + K Upton thrown out by Fairchild for arguing B & S.
7.  C Kotchman 1B		X 4-3 /			BCBF BB SB BB		GB6 E6 his 1st!		RS BB
8.  R Brignac SS 7th PH D Johnson SS			CSBS Ks 2-3		#7 1,2 Bunt pop FO1		Ashby: "..one in back of McDonald so he backs up and does it" ?????? LO4		Ks
9.  J Jaso C 9th PR S Rodriguez			BBCX 4-3		CCBB X 3UA #7 2,3		BH9 #7 1,2		BB #7 1,2
Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 1	0 0 0 0	0 3 0 2	0 0 0 1	1 1 0 1	0 1 0 2	0 1 0 1	1 1 0 2	2 7 0 10

Rays Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
Jeff Niemann	4.0	6	3	3	0	0	1	62/43	5.74
Andy Sonnanstine	3.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	24/16	2.19
Juan Cruz	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	18/12	2.25
Adam Russell	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	0	12/7	2.31