24/Sept/2011 Jays at Rays - Game 2 of 3

From Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida,

USA

Toronto Blue Jays

(80-77)

Manager: John Farrell

@

Tampa Bay Rays

(86-71)

Manager: Joe Maddon

Game 2 of 3

First pitch: 7:10 PM EST


Starting Pitchers
Toronto Blue Jays - Ricky Romero
Tampa Bay Rays - Jeff Niemann

Umpires
Home - Ed Rapuano
1B - Ed Hickox
2B - Mark Wegner
3B - Alfonso Marquez

Weather
Air conditioning is on. :)


Final: Blue Jays 2 - Bay Rays 6

It looks like the baseball gods won't let Boston into the play-offs unless they DO SOMETHING --- like win 2 in a row sometime this month!

A bizzar loss for the Jays, errors everywhere, mis-throws, mis-plays - I counted 5 maybe 6 errors if you include throws off line - like for example - Coopers throw to Johnson on the pick off of Upton in the 8th; that should have been the second out of the inning, but instead Kyle was too far from the baseline to effect a convincing swipe tag for the ump. Happens on another play earlier as well. Coopers mis-read of the pop foul was scored an error but in that dome with it's baseball coloured roof - should never be. Weird game.

So, as I said above the baseball gods are holding the Boston's to account, they'll have to win two in a row in these last 5 or they're OUT!

mh



Line ups and pitching totals from ESPN - Box Score.

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
Toronto Blue Jays	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	2	6	3	6
Tampa Bay Rays	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	x	-	-	6	6	0	3

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.  M McCoy SS	FO9	FO8 //			K		5-3 //
2.  E Thames LF	RS BB		FO7		Ks			J Peralta + FO7
3.  J Bautista RF	RS 2RBI HR7 #2 1,H		IF-BH6		HBP			6-3
4.  K Johnson 2B	FO8		CS 2-4 BH9 #3 1,3		4-3 //			bloop over 3 BH9 line 9!-4
5.  E Encarnacion 3B	BB		#4 CS IBB			4-3		1-2 2-2 3-2 S pitching him Very carefully 3-2 pitch is a perfect change! Ks //
6.  C Rasmus CF	2BH9 #5 1,3		4-3 //			Ks			K Farnsworth + Ks
7.  D Cooper 1B	6-3 //			LO5		pop FO2 //			5 scoops it as he rounds into foul ground - makes the throW four steps foul perfect throw! slicer 5 line! 5f-3! Prick.
8.  J Arencibia C		A Torres + FO8		7-4 BH7 out stretching it 7-4 DOA			B Gomes + Ks		Ks ///
9.  A Loewen DH		K		Ks //			Ks		Looks like the baseball gods won't let Boston into the play-offs... ..unless they DO SOMETHING - like win 2 in a row sometime this month!
Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB	2 2 2 2	0 0 0 0	0 2 0 2	0 1 0 0	0 0 0 1	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	0 1 1 1	0 0 x 0

Toronto Blue Jays Bench

Fielders

Bullpen

Starters

Jays' Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
Ricky Romero	7.2	6	6	1	2	5	2	114/63	2.92
Casey Janssen	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4/3	2.33

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.  D Jennings LF	LO6		DP HBP		Ks			5-3
2.  B Upton CF	SB RS pop foul 3 missed E3 ? BH9		pop FO2f		CS 1-4-3 off baseline called out GB5 FC 5-4 #9 out			pick off 1-3-4 Safe! missed the swipeSB RS BB
3.  E Longoria 3B	#2 1,2 Ks		GB6 DP 6-4-3 #1 out //		#2 CS // --->	6-3		RS #2 1,2 1-3! GB6 E6 np
4.  B Zobrist 2B	RS GB6 short E6th over 3 2BE #2 2,H			RS RBI HR7		6-3		FO9
5.  J Damon DH	RBI (E Scoring) FB shallow 9 8, 4 don't call it, drops 2BH ??? #4 2,H			BB		SB 2-4 sweep missed Right back up the middle - perfect BH8		RS 3RBI HR9 #2 2,H #3 1,H
6.  S Rodriguez SS	WP #5 2,3 FO8 //			6-3 #5 1,2		#5 1,2 Ks //		C Janssen + That was nice of Farrell to let Romero try for his career best 16th win... But I bet the Red Sox don't think it was very nice. LO3 //
7.  C Kotchman 1B		FO7		Ks			DP HBP
8.  M Joyce RF		K		#8 throws his hat maybe out of game? Hickox doesn't throw him. Video is Really close I can't tell, maybe safe. GB middle 1-6!-3 Out! //			GB6 DP 6-4-3
9.  J Lobaton C		1-3 //		Funny: ESPN Scores the above play, "M Joyce lined out to pitcher." Couldn'r be less precise I think.	FC BH9		6-3 //
Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB	2 2 0 1	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	1 1 0 1	0 1 0 0	0 1 0 1	0 0 0 0	3 1 0 0	x x 0 x

Tampa Bay Rays Bench

Fielders

Bullpen

Starters

Rays' Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
Jeff Niemann	1.0	2	2	2	2	0	1	38/19	4.06
Alex Torres	5.0	3	0	0	1	5	0	71/43	3.38
Brandon Gomes	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	0	12/9	3.09
Joel Peralta	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	0	16/9	3.02
Kyle Farnsworth	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	0	17/11	2.28