Scorecard: May 19, 2011 Tampa Bay Rays at Toronto Blue Jays - Game 2 of 2

From Rogers Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Rays (25-18) at Jays (21-21) - Game 2

First pitch: 7:07 PM EST

Starting pitchers:

Tampa Bay - Wade Davis
Toronto - Ricky Romero

Umpires:

Home - Tim Welke
3B - Mike Dimuro
2B - Jim Reynolds
1B - Andy Fletcher

This is the last Blue Jays game before a stretch of nine days where-in one game will be available on the basic cable channel, 'Sportsnet' (#22 in Leslieville, Toronto). Rogers has decided to air the 'Junior A' hockey "Memorial Cup" tournament - and relegate the Jays to the premium priced 'Sportsnet-One' channel.

Blacked out will be a three game visit by the National League's Houston Astros, and three games against the New York Yankees until when finally, on Wednesday, May 25th at 1:00 PM, almost a week from now Rogers will air game 4 of the series. The next day it's back to radio-days for 3 of 4 at Rogers Centre with the Chicago White Sox before Rogers rejoins the world of MLB as the Blue Jays Official Broadcaster on May 29th. The first evening game in 10 days will air the next day - Monday, May 30th at 7:00 PM - Jays at home to the Cleveland Indians.

I'm going to live-score these blacked-out games listening to the radio broadcast of the game from the Rogers owned FAN590 Toronto. After that I may never go back to television - who knows, we'll see. Radio has always been there for me; and television is so frantic - and the ads these days are more-often-than-not insulting to human intelligence. What ever happen to that Bits & Bites "next handful, a whole new ballgame" commercial with the baseball theme? Not enough militarism in every byte perhaps?

Well, my wireless internet connection is unreliable so scoring this game is like a crap-shoot - I click publish and just as Blogger is about to upload I loose my connection. Think I'll just watch this one - see ya tomorrow.

mh

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	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Runs	Hits	Errors	LOB
Tampa Bay Rays	0	0
Toronto Blue Jays	0

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.  B Zobrist RF	C 7:09 BSBF X 6-3
2.  J Damon DH	BFBX 4-3
3.  E Longoria 3B	BSBC FBFS Ks /
4.  M Joyce LF		X 3UA
5.  B Upton CF		CCFF X DP GB5-off glove 6-7 BH7
6.  D Johnson 1B		CX GB4 DP 4-6-3 /
7.  S Rodriguez 2B
8.  R Brignac SS
9.  K Shoppach C
Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB	0 0 0 0	0 0 0

Rays Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
Wade Davis

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	X FO9
2.  C Patterson LF	BbX 3UA
3.  J Bautista RF	CX FO8(7) medium /
4.  A Hill 2B
5.  J Rivera 1B
6.  J Arencibia C
7.  E Thames DH
8.  R Davis CF
9.  J Nix 3B
Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB	0 0 0 0	0

Jays Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
Ricky Romero