August 3, 2011 Jays at Rays - Game 2 of 3

From Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida,

USA

Toronto Blue Jays

(56-53)

Manager: John Farrell

@

Tampa Bay Rays

(56-52)

Manager: Joe Maddon

Game 2 of 3

First pitch: 7:10 PM EST

Starting Pitchers
Toronto Blue Jays - Carlos Villanueva
Tampa Bay Rays - James Shields

Umpires
Home - Adrian Johnson
First Base - Cory Blaser
Second Base - Lance Barksdale
Third Base - Gary Cederstrom

Weather
Air conditioning is on. :)






















Line ups and pitching totals help from ESPN - Box Score.
Help in the top of the ninth MLB 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 Kf2 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	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	1	5	1	7
Tampa Bay Rays	0	4	4	0	0	0	1	0	x	-	-	9	12	0	7

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	5-3		CBX 6-3			5-3		GB 2nd BH8 Shields out
2.  C Rasmus CF	FO8		BX FO9			Ks		J McGee BH9 #1 1,3
3.  J Bautista 3B Btm 7th J MacDonald 3b	FO7 /		CBBB CFFX FB hits the roof A ring - in-play FO6 /			3-2 B BB		Ks
4.  A Lind 1B Btm 7th M Teahen 1B		FO8		FO8		BFFB S Ks /		1-3 /
5.  E Encarnacion DH		6-3		Ks			pop1 FO4		2BH9
6.  E Thames RF		BB		Ks /			Ks		Ks McGee out
7.  A Hill 2B		BB #6 1,2			FO8(7)		LD6 BH7		B Gomes + 4-3
8.  T Snider LF		BFCB C K /			CX 4-3		dribbler3 2-3 /		FO8 /
9.  J Arencibia C			CBBX RS RBI HR7		X 5-3 /			pop FB5(7) FO7f
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 1 2	1 1 0 0	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	0 1 0 1	0 2 0 2	0 1 x 1

Visitor Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
Carlos Villanueva	2.2	9	8	8	0	1	3	69/45	4.24
Jesse Litsch	3.1	0	0	0	2	5	0	50/28	4.44
WIl Ledezma	1.0	3	1	1	1	3	0	31/20	9.00
Shawn Camp

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 9th CF	4-3	bunt5 BH #8 2,3 #9 1,2	3BH8(9) Villanueva gone			Ks	Ks /
2.  J Damon DH Btm 8th J Ruggiano 9th LF	FO3	SAC RBI FO8 #8 3,H	Litsch + dribbler 2-3 /			Ks		6-3
3.  E Longoria 3B	LO4 /	FO8 /		DP BB		Ks /		FO7
4.  B Zobrist 2B		BBCB FX RS RBI HR9	Ks	FO8 short			Ledezma + RS IF-BH6	4-3 /
5.  C Kotchman 1B		BCBC X FB 9(8) diving! FO9	RS RBI HR9	GB1 DP 1-6-3 #3 out /			BH8 #5 1,2
6.  B Upton CF 9th Justin McGee P Brandon Gomes P		X RS GB5(6) BH7	5-3		Ks		PB #5,#6 1b Ks
7.  M Joyce RF		CX RS GB 2nd off 4 glove BH8 #6 1,3	2BH9 9-4		3-1		DI (#9) RBI BH8 short #5 3,H #6 2,3
8.  S Rodriguez SS		BbB1 BC>b RS SAC RBI safety squeeze 1-2 E1th #6 3,H #7 1,3	RS HBP		FO8 /		Ks
9.  R Chirinos C		RBI pass bunt BH 1-4 late #7 3,H #8 1,2	RS 3RBI HR7 #7 2,H #8 1,H			BB	>B DI #7 1,2 BB
Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB	0 0 0 0	4 5 0 2	4 4 0 1	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	1 3 0 3	0 0 0 0	x x 0 x

Home Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
James Shields	7.1 (+1)	3	1	1	3	6	1	112/70	2.95
Jake McGee	1.1	2	0	0	0	2	0
Brandon Gomes