August 15, 2011: Blue Jays at Mariners - Game 1 of 3

From Safeco Field, Seattle, Washington, USA

Toronto Blue Jays

(61-59)

Manager: John Farrell

@

Seattle Mariners

(52-67)

Manager: Eric Wedge

Game 1 of 3

First pitch: 10:10 PM EST

Starting Pitchers
Toronto - Henderson Alvarez
Seattle - Michael Pineda

Umpires
Home - Cory Blaser
First Base - Tim Mcclelland
Second Base - Brian Runge
Third Base - Marvin Hudson

Weather
Partly Cloudy

72F | 21C
4mph | 6kph


















Line-ups and Pitching Totals help from ESPN - Boxscore.

Colour Legend (as of this date)

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

The Scoring Notations

BB Base on Balls - Batter to first base because the umpire ruled that pitched ball was the forth pitch of the at-bat out of the strike zone HBP Hit By Pitch - Batter is ruled by the umpire to have been hit by pitch - awarded one base BH Base Hit - Batter-runner safe at first base via a hit ball 2BH Two Base Hit - Batter-runner safe at second base via a hit ball 3BH Three Base Hit - Batter-runner safe at third base via a hit ball HR Home Run - Batter-runner safe at home plate via a hit ball RBI Run Batted In - via a SAC, a BH or a BB - a run scores RS Run Scored. SAC Sacrifice - With less than two outs the batter causes a base runner to advance but in the process, is put out FC Ball hit on the ground, fielded and a put out made anywhere but at 1B DI Defensive Indifference - A baserunner advances because the defence, for strategic reasons, does nothing IBB Intentional Base on Balls - The defences decides to walk a batter for strategic reasons

SB Stolen Base - Base runner advances on a pitched ball despite the defence's best efforts CS Caught Stealing - A baserunner is put out while tring to advance on a pitch K Called third strike - Batter out because the umpire ruled that with two strikes in an at-bat, a pitched ball was in the strike zone Ks Batter out, swinging third strike IFR Infield Fly Rule - A ball popped up on the infield that an umpire rules is easily catch-able - batter-runner is out, the ball is dead LO Ball caught that was hit so hard it appears like the vector was a straight line GO Ball hit on the ground, fielded and the batter-runner is put out at 1B FO A high arching hit ball caught on the fly by a fielder E The defence allows runners to advance because of less than stallar play Eth The defence allows runners to advance because of less than stallar throw WP Wild Pitch - a pitched ball that bounces in and is not caught by the catcher and that results in a runner advancing PB Passed Ball - a pitched ball that doesn't bounce and is not caught by the catcher and that results in a runner advancing

pop A ball hit in a high arch such that the distance travelled up is greater than the distance travelled from the plate GR To prevent injury, "Ground Rules" define what hit or thrown balls are in, and out of play - announced before each game by the home team manager f Hit ball caught in foul territory - for example "FO3f" - Fly Ball caught by First Base, foul op Out of Play - for example "FO5op", Fly ball caught by Third Base across the railing in the stands, or in the camera bay... BRIF Base runner is out for interfering with the defence while they're making a play on a batted ball Ksf2 Foul tip with 2 strikes, caught by catcher - strike three - - - - - - - - - - - -

Box Score - Final	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Runs	Hits	Errors	LOB
Toronto Blue Jays	2	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	5	9	0	7
Seattle Mariners	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	2	x	-	-	6	11	0	5

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	RS BB	GB6 FC 6UA #9 out /		6-3 #8 2,3		GB4 DP4-6-3 #9 out /			Ks
2.  E Thames LF 9th PR M McCoy	RS RBI HR9 #1 1,H		4-3	pop FO5 /			FO7		BH7 short PR
3.  J Bautista RF	Ks		RS BB		4-3 hard!		LD5(6) BH7		X GB5 short 5! - 3! Out! /
4.  A Lind 1B	5-3		RS 2RBI HR9 #3 1,H		GB5(6) BH7		FO7 deep-corner
5.  E Encarnacion DH	BB		6-3		FO7 DEEP!		broken bat 1-3 /
6.  C Rasmus CF	Ks /		Ks /		BH9 hopper #4 1,3 9-6... 5			Wilhelmsen + 4-3
7.  B Lawrie 3B		Ks		RS RBI HR7	K /			bunt5 1-3
8.  A Hill 2B		LO4		SB IF-BH5		1-3		FO9 /
9.  J Arencibia C		FC (#1) BB		#8 1,2 K		DP LD7 BH			League + pop FO2f
Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB	2 1 0 1	0 0 0 1	2 1 0 0	1 2 0 0	0 2 0 2	0 1 0 0	0 1 0 1	0 0 0 0	0 1 x 1

Blue Jays' Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
Henderson Alvarez	5.0	6	4	4	1	3	1	96/62	5.91
Jesse Litsch (H, 2)	2.0	1	0	0	0	1	0	21/14	4.11
Trever Miller (B, 1)	0.1	1	1	1	0	0	0	6/4	4.91
Jon Rauch (L, 5-4)	0.2	3	1	1	0	1	1	17/11	4.47

Seattle Mariners	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.  I Suzuki RF	4-3	SAC RBI FO7 #8 3,H		1-3 /			FO7
2.  F Gutierrez CF	2BH7	FO9 /			pop FO5f		GB5 short 1! 1-3 /
3.  D Ackley 2B	5-3 #2 2,3		3UA		GB 2nd 6-3			Miller + 6-3
4.  M Carp 1B	4-3 /		RS RBI HR7		Ks /			RS RBI HR9 Miller -
5.  C Wells DH		RS HBP	6-3			high looper BH8 Alvarez -		Rauch + RS RBI HR7
6.  M Olivo C		FO9	Ks /			Litsch + GB6 DP FC6-4 -3 6-bad throw		CS BH8
7.  T Robinson LF		RS RBI 2BH7 #5 1,H		K		DP BH7 #6 1,2		>B #6 CS 2-6 2BH8(7) wall
8.  K Seager 3B		RS BB		FO7		GB4 DP 4-5-3 /		Ks /
9.  J Wilson SS		RBI BH9 #7 2,H #8 1,3 9-5 #9 1,2 (thr)		BH8			Ks
Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB	0 1 0 1	3 2 0 1	1 1 0 0	0 1 0 1	0 0 0 0	0 2 0 1	0 0 0 0	2 4 0 1	x x 0 x

Mariners' Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
Michael Pineda	5.0	6	5	5	4	6	3	94/56	3.77
Dan Cortes	2.0	2	0	0	0	0	0	25/14	3.00
Tom Wilhelmsen (W)	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9/6	5.27
Brandon League (S, 30) !	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	0	13/8	2.97