07/Sept/2011 Red Sox at Blue Jays - Game 3 of 4

From Rogers Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Boston Red Sox

(85-56)

Manager: Terry Francona

@

Toronto Blue Jays

(70-72)

Manager: John Farrell

Game 3 of 4

First pitch: 7:07 PM EST

Starting Pitchers
Boston - Tim Wakefield
Toronto - Brandon Morrow

Umpires
(probable)
Home - Jeff Kellogg
First Base - Mike Estabrook  - Eric Cooper
Second Base - Mark Carlson
Third Base - Tim Timmons

Weather
Cold, windy, shitty. But the roof's open, for the knuckle baller. ;)




Check out the x-axis - 22mph difference. Graphic via Brooks PitchFX

Tim Wakefield to K Johnson - 3rd Inning Ks

F Morales to K Johnson - 6th Inning Ks

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 of any base runner other than the batter-runner 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
Boston Red Sox	3	0	0	4	1	0	0	0	2	-	-	10	14	1	6
Toronto Blue Jays	1	2	2	0	0	0	1	5	x	-	-	11	8	0	6

Boston Red Sox	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.  J Ellsbury CF	BH7	LO7 //		RS 3RBI HR9 #6 3,H #7 2,H		BH8(7)		2BH8
2.  D Pedroia 2B	RS BH7 #1 1,2		shift> pop 6(8) FO6	6-3 //		#1 going Ks 2-6 #1 tagged out //		6-3 //
3.  A Gonzalez 1B	RS HBP #1 2,3 #2 1,2		3-2 X pop 5f FO2f		Ks		J Litsch + FC 2BH9 deep		F Francisco + RS RBI HR9
4.  D Ortiz DH	Ks		FO9 wall //		RS RBI HR9		IBB		RS BH9
5.  K Youkilis 3B	tagged 8-3-5 RBI HBP #1 3,H #2 2,3#3 1,2			scorer's E scorer's E LO9	BH9 Morrow -		GB5 FC 5UA #3 tagged out #4 1,2		5-3 #4 1,2
6.  C Crawford LF	Ks			RS 2BH9 deep	Villanueva + BB #5 1,2		FO7		Ks
7.  M Scutaro SS PR 9th Mike Aviles	BH8 #2 3,H #3 2,H 8-3-5 #5 out tag //			RS BB	FO8		Ks //		CS RBI GB 2nd BH8 #4 2,H PR
8.  J Reddick RF		Ks		RS RBI 2BH8 #5 2,H #6 1,3	Ks			S Camp + 6-3	FF>B #7 CS 2-6 ///
9.  J Saltalamacchia C		FB8 shortdiving! FO8		scorer's E scorer's E Ks		FO8		FO7
Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB	3 3 0 1	0 0 0 0	0 0 1 0	4 3 0 0	1 2 0 1	0 1 0 0	0 1 0 2	0 1 0 1	2 3 x 0

Red Sox Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
Tim Wakefield	5.0	3	5	4	3	3	1	91/46	5.03
Frank Morales	0.1	1	0	0	0	1	0	9/6	3.60
Dan Wheeler	1.1	2	1	1	0	1	0	26/16	4.38
Daniel Bard	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4/2	2.09
Matt Albers	0.1	1	0	0	0	1	0	12/6	4.53

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	BB	FO9 //		FO9 //			RS 2BH8(7)	2-1 3-1 3-2 C K
2.  E Thames LF	WP 2-6 GB4 FC 4-6 #1 out		RS HBP		FO8		3UA #1 2,3	3-2 B RS RBI BB #6 3,H #7 2,3 #8 1,2
3.  J Bautista DH	WP #2 1,2 BB		SB RS SB RBI WP #2 1,2 GR-2BH7 line - stupid Tor fan #2 2,H		CS HBP		FO8 short	3-2 B RS RBI BB #7 3,H #8 2,3 #2 1,2
4.  E Encarnacion 1B	SAC RBI PB #2, #3 1b FO9 #2 3,H 9-6		pop FO3		pop FO3f		RBI BH7 #1 3,H	3-1 3-2 M Albers + 3RBI 2BH8(9) #8 3,H #2 2,H #3 1.H
5.  K Johnson 2B	Ks //		Ks		#3 CS 2-6 // --->	F Morales + fastball at 96mph Ks	D Bard + 3UA //	Ks //
6.  B Lawrie 3B		RS BH7	E6th SB #3 2,3 BB			BH8		RS HBP
7.  A Loewen RF		Loewen: a Pitcher come Fielder FO7	BC>S C Ashby's call horrible on play. MLB not any better - #3 SB, #6SB E6th, #6 adv. on E. How did 6 get the ball??! Below is my best guess of what happened. #6 1,2 2-6 safe #3 3,H 6-2 E6th #6 2,3 K //			HBP #6 1,2		RS BH9 #6 1,3
8.  J Arencibia C PR 8th C Woodward 9th J Molina C		RS 2RBI HR8 #6 1,H		FO7		D Wheeler + Ks		RS BB #7 1,2
9.  M McCoy CF PH 6th D Wise CF		bunt 3 3UA! tag		FO9		PH FO7 //		Ks
Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB	1 0 0 1	2 2 0 0	2 1 0 1	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	0 1 0 2	1 2 0 1	5 2 0 1	x x 0 x

Jays' Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
Brandon Morrow	4.1	8	8	8	1	5	2	95/56	5.12
Carlos Villanueva	1.2	1	0	0	1	2	0	31/19	4.07
Jessie Litsch	1.0	1	0	0	1	1	0	24/11	4.32
Shawn Camp (another win!! 4-3)	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	9/7	4.48
Frank Francisco (S, 13)	1.0	3	2	2	0	1	1	17/15	3.83