16/Sept/2011 Yankees at Blue Jays - Game 1 of 3

Rogers Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

New York Yankees

(90-58)

Manager: Joe Girardi

@

Toronto Blue Jays

(75-74)

Manager: John Farrell

Game 1 of 3

First pitch: 7:07 PM EST


Starting Pitchers
New York Yankees - CC Sabathia
Toronto Blue Jays - Dustin McGowan


Umpires
Home - Jerry Meals
1B - C.B. Bucknor
2B - Dan Iassogna
3B - Dale Scott


Weather
Cold, mainly clear
Temp - 14°C | 60°F
Wind - ESE 4 kph | 2 mph


















Line-ups and Pitching Totals 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
New York Yankees	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	-	-	4	5	0	2
Toronto Blue Jays	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	1	-	-	5	13	0	14

New York Yankees	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 Jeter SS	6-3		#9 1,2 Ks //		K //			C Janssen + 4-3
2.  C Granderson CF	K			FC BB		J Litsch + 4-3		pop FO6
3.  M Teixeira 1B	5-3 //			shift 5 in shallow RF FC GB5 DP FC 5-6 #2 out lob from 5 too slow		FO7		Ks //
4.  R Cano 2B		A9 9-6 BH9 out 9-6		RS GB3 hicup DP FC 3-6 #3 out		RS 2BH9			FO8
5.  N Swisher RF		5-3		RS RBI 2BH8 #4 1,H		FC RBI BH7 #4 2,H			4-3
6.  E Chavez 3B		5-3 //		RS 2RBI HR8 #5 2,H		GB6 FC 6-4 #5 out //			4-3 //
7.  J Posada DH			4-3	FO8 //			Odd hit ball: ball hit between Posada and the plate (fair) and stayed fair out past 1B Posada thought it was foul. GB3 3UA
8.  R Martin C			Ks		6-3		5-3
9.  B Gardner LF			SB BB		4-3		FO8 //
Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB	0 0 0 0	0 1 0 0	0 0 0 1	3 2 0 0	0 0 0 0	1 2 0 1	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0

New York Yankees Bench

Fielders

Bullpen

Starters

Austin Romine C
  
Eric Chavez 3B
Brandon Laird 3B
Eduardo Nunez SS
Ramiro Pena 3B
Alex Rodriguez 3B

Chris Dickerson RF
Greg Golson CF
Andruw Jones LF

Jesus Montero DH

Non-Roster call-ups:

Melky Mesa RF
Kevin Whelan RP

Luis Ayala    RP
Andrew Brackman    RP
George Kontos    RP
Aaron Laffey    RP
Boone Logan    RP
Hector Noesi    RP
Scott Proctor    RP
Mariano Rivera    RP
David Robertson    RP
Rafael Soriano    RP
Raul Valdes    RP
Cory Wade    RP

Dellin Betances    SP
A.J. Burnett    SP
Bartolo Colon    SP
Freddy Garcia    SP
Phil Hughes    SP
Ivan Nova    SP

Yankees' Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
CC Sabathia	5.2	10	4	4	4	8	0	120/73	3.01
Luis Ayala	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	6/5	1.79
Rafael Soriano	2.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	29/19	1.94
David Robertson	1.0	1	0	0	2	1	0	24/11	3.03
Boone Logan	0.1	1	1	1	1	0	0	11/4	3.03
Cory Wade	0.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3/2	2.16

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.  McCoy M SS	RS BH8 short		bunt 3 np BH 2 late covering #9 1,2		Ks	BH9 9 playing Shallow #9 1.2		bunting on 3 pitches K
2.  Thames E LF	Ks		FO8 deep #9 2,3		Ks	K		GB4 FC 4-6 #9 out #8 2,3
3.  Bautista J RF	FC BH9 short #1 1,3		BB #1 1,2		RS BB #9 1,2	BB #9 2,3 #1 1,2 Sabathia -		IBB #2 1,2
4.  Encarnacion E DH	SB SAC RBI GB5 FC 5-4 #1 3,H #3 out		GB1 DP 1-2-3 #9 out //		RS BB #9 2,3 #3 1,2	L Ayala + FO8 //		FO9 deep //
5.  Lind A 1B 9th PR Adam Loewen	#4 1,2 Ks //			BH8	3RBI 2BH7 wall bounces over 7's head #9, #3, #4 H		R Soriano + Ks		B Logan + FC 2BH9 line hits 1/2 way up the wall PR
6.  Lawrie B 3B		4-3		Ks	GB1 can"t find it, 1-3 BH #4 2,3		Ks		RS IBB
7.  C Rasmus CF		Ks		Ks	1-3 //		Ks //		bunt 1 FC 1-5 #5 out #6 1,2
8.  Arencibia J C 8th PR Dewayne Wise 9th Jose Molina C		pop FO6 //		FO7 //		6-3		D Robertson + 2BH7 bad throw 7. PR	C Wade + BH8(9) wall #6 2,H #7 1,2 ///
9.  Johnson K 2B			DP BH7		RS BH8	BH8		FC BB
Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB	1 1 0 1	0 0 0 0	0 2 0 2	0 1 0 0	3 3 0 2	0 3 0 3	0 0 0 0	0 1 0 3	1 2 0 1

Toronto Blue Jays Bench

Fielders

Bullpen

Starters

Brian Jeroloman C
Jose Molina C

David Cooper 1B
Yunel Escobar SS
Adam Loewen CF
Mark Teahen 3B
Dewayne Wise CF
Chris Woodward 2B

Jon Rauch DL

Non-Roster call-ups:

Alan Farina RP
Adeiny Hechavarria SS
Darin Mastroianni CF
Moises Sierra RF
Travis Snider LF

Chad Beck
Shawn Camp
Joel Carreno
Danny Farquhar
Frank Francisco
Casey Janssen
Jesse Litsch
Luis Perez
Carlos Villanueva

Henderson Alvarez
Brett Cecil
Kyle Drabek
Rommie Lewis
Brad Mills
Brandon Morrow
Ricky Romero

Jays' Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
Dustin McGowan	5.0	3	3	3	2	4	1	75/43	7.50
Jesse Litsch	2.0	2	1	1	0	0	0	37/43	4.33
Casey Janssen	2.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	29/19	1.94