Blogger Baseball Scorecard: Live ScoreCard Blog: Tampa Bays Rays @ Toronto Blue Jays

Tampa Bays Rays @ Toronto Blue Jays
7:07 PM EDT, August 6, 2010
Rogers Centre, Toronto, Ontario
Starting Pitchers:
Tampa Bay: Garza (11-5, 4.11 ERA)
Toronto: Cecil (8-5, 3.77 ERA)

Weather: 22°C 72°F, Partly Cloudy
Wind: NW 22 kph, gusts to 33 kph (L-R)
Roof should be open - but I don't know yet. It's been trying to rain all day, but conditions seemed to have changed, calmed down now here next to the big lake. should be a nice night to be out and see a ball game.

Umpires:

Home Jeff, Nelson,
First Base, Mark Carlson
Second Base, Jeff Kellogg
Third Base, Larry Vanover

Notes:

Pat Tabler, babbling a few less irrelevancies than usual tonight, relates an interesting stat! The Jays have given up the fewest runs of any team in baseball since the all star break (60).

Top of 6

* Rodriguez sliding into second, trying to break up the double play, slides in with his left foot really high as Hill does the give-ground-jump out of his way - almost a Ty Cobb type slide.

Photo: http://www.umass.edu/pubaffs/jackie/cobb.gif

Matt Garza has a 1.60 ERA at Rogers Centre. Sign him Blue Jays as soon as you are able.

Bottom of 7

* Kapler throws a strike to the plate from way deep left on the RBI double by Overbay and cuts down Adam Lind trying to score behind Bautista. As well as Kaplers throw, Shoppach blocks the plate nicely preventing the second run, and ending the inning.

Just like the Indian's Carlos Santana did in Boston the other night (where he tore a ligament on the outside of his left knee - out for the year), Shoppach shot his leg out across the plate, so the runner, Adam Lind naturally hits it like the tape at the finnish line, right in the middle, at the knee joint. The difference here was that Shoppach had no weight on his leg, and he was sliding across on the back of his heel I think - so no spikes in the dirt to anchor the leg and thus, snap ligaments.

As well, Lind doesn't slide (or run) effectively - so no danger what-so-ever. :)

I think it looked like Lind tripped when he saw the catcher - he was so surprised, all of sudden, something in his way - and he sort of stumbled into the barrier.

:) Just thought I'd get that rib in there. It's been a long time since I've seen a guy who otherwise looks so athletic, but runs so poorly. And it's not just god-given in-ability; from this observers point of view, he doesn't seem to practice the fundamentals. I've notice several things he does that by practicing foot-work would make him much better on the base-paths.

Not in this case though - Kapler nailed him! Great throw.

Top of the 9th

Jason Bartlette's AB was a thing of beauty.

After about 12 pitches with the count stuck at 2-2, Barlette scorches a bouncing line drive down the 3rd base line that Encarnacion must make a play and throw on. The 3rd base Umpire, Larry Vanover you can see, is yelling and waving foul, but it's too late. Edwin - who can't see behind and maybe can't hear him, or he can't stop his motion with out injury, or his mind is already made up as the ball comes off the bat - whichever is the case, the third baseman continues his motion and completes the play.

The call is so close that when we finally do see a good replay the ripped ball is only inches off the foul corner of the bag as it slices foul - a really good call by Vanover who was blocked partially by Encarnaicion, I thought.

But now I'm thinking, 'Oh dam, now that going-through-the-motions throw has spent our luck in this long AB; Bartelette's going to tie it up.

The next pitch is rifled up the middle, pitcher Kevin Gregg gets glove on it but then it dribbles out towards CF until Aaron Hill intercepts it and runs to 2nd base ahead of Longoria for the force - and the game.

Whew! The baseball gods were toying with us there.

The game ended at 9:30 PM, a 2 hour, 23 minute pitchers duel.

Next Up

See you tomorrow for a matinee, Game 2 of this series starting at 1:07!

It's James Shields (10-9) vnot Litsch - who was just scratched for the year, he's having ligament surgery on his hip some day very soon. The name of his replacement not yet been published.

Box score for this game at ESPN

Final	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Tampa Bays Rays	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	2
Toronto Blue Jays	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	x	2	4	0


Tampa Bays Rays	1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		H	AB	BB	R	RBI	LOB	PO	A	E
1. B. Upton CF		Ks				Ks						BB ---				FO9
2. S. Rodriguez 2B		GR (stupid fan) 2BH <>				bounce GB 5-3						BH9 x #1, 1,2				6-3 /
3. E. Longoria 3B		FO9 #2, 2,3				Ks /			BBC CX		BBC CX	DP 5-4*-3 x						BH7 x
4. W Aybar DH		2BH7 RBI ---					CBB X	LO7				BB -						K
5. B. Zobrist 1B		IFH4 BH1 #4, 2,3 -					X	FO9(8)	BBB CSS		BBB CSS	Ks /					CBX	pop 8(9) FO8
6. J Bartlette SS		GB 5-3 /					BbC CFX	4-3 /					2-2 FC	K			BFF FX	GB 1-4FC - /
7. M. Joyce RF				Ks					SBX	FO8			FSC	K
8. G. Kapler LF				LDGB 5-3						GB2B 4-3 nice			FFX	FO9 /
9. K. Shoppach C Top 8th J. Jaso ph - C				Ks /					0-2 BBB S	Ks /						3UA
																		TOTALS


/Inning Totals	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Totals
Runs	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Hits	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	5
Errors	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	x	2
LOB	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	5

Pitching	IP	R	ER
Matt Garza SP	8.0	1	0


Toronto Blue Jays	1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		H	AB	BB	R	RBI	LOB	PO	A	E
1. F. Lewis LF		GB 4-3			3-2	6-3						K				3UA /
2. Y. Escobar SS		Ks				FO8 /						GB 1-3 /
3. J. Bautista RF		FO8 /					BbC BX	pop FO9						GB1 Eth1 <>
4. V. Wells CF				Ks			SSX	pop FO4					WW	Ks
5. A. Lind DH				BH8 -			BX	deep FO9 /						BH9 x
6. A. Hill 2B				FO9					X	FO3f				FO9 #3, 2,3
7. L. Overbay 1B				FO7 /						pop FO6			BSB X	2BH7 RBI 7*-2 #5 1,Hx -- /
8. E. Encarnacion						LD 2BH7 <>			BBX	FB! FO7 on the track /						pop FO6
9. J. Molina C						LO4 Eth4 7-1 #8, 2,H						pop FO3f				LO4
																		TOTALS