23/Sept/2011 Jays at Rays - Game 1 of 3

From Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida,

USA

Toronto Blue Jays

(79-77)

Manager: John Farrell

@

Tampa Bay Rays

(86-70)

Manager: Joe Maddon

Game 1 of 3

First pitch: 7:10 PM EST


Starting Pitchers
Toronto Blue Jays - Brandon Morrow
Tampa Bay Rays - David Price

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

Weather
Air conditioning is on. :)


Final:  Jays 5 - Rays 1


















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	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	5	6	0	4
Tampa Bay Rays	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	-	-	1	3	2	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.  M McCoy SS	K		RS BH9 #8 2.3 #9 1,2		SB RS BB		FO8
2.  E Thames LF	Ks		#3 tagged two steps from home. GB3 FC 1-2 E1th #8 3,H #9 2,H #1 1,3		RBI #1 1,2 BH8 short #1 2,H 8-6		Ks //
3.  J Bautista RF	FO8 //		Rounding the bag, 8-6 tag. IBB		Ks			purpose pitch puts him on the ground 5-3
4.  E Encarnacion 3B		LO9	pop FO4		LO5 //			LO9
5.  K Johnson 2B		4-3	RBI pop BH8 #1 3,H #2 2,3 #3 out 8-6 tag //			RS RBI HR9		4-3 //
6.  J Molina DH		5-3 //		Ks		Ks			J.P. Howell + K
7.  C Rasmus CF			4-3	Ks		pop FO5f			3UA
8.  J Arencibia C			RS BH8(9)	FO9 //		K //			BH7 short
9.  D Cooper 1B			RS GB4 FC 1-6-CF E1th #8 safe at 2B		3UA		C Ramos + 4-3		pop FO5f //
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 0	3 3 0 2	0 0 0 0	1 1 0 1	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	0 1 0 1

Jays' Bench

Fielders

Bullpen

Starters

Jays' Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
Brandon Morrow	7.0	2	0	0	4	9	0	113/68	4.78
Joel Carreno	1.0	0	0	0	1	1	0	13/6	1.15
Luis Perez	1.0	1	1	1	1	0	0	28/16	5.20

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	SB BB		6-3		GB4 DP 4-3 #8 out //			J Carreno + 6-3
2.  B Upton CF 9th J Ruggiano CF	Ks		FO8			FO9		CS BB
3.  E Longoria 3B	#1 1,2 Ks		HBP Ribs. Ouch!!			FO7		#2 CS 2-4 K //
4.  J Damon DH	BB		6-3 //			3UA //		BJ Upton is ejected between innings.	BBBC CFFB L Perez + RS BB
5.  B Zobrist 2B	Ks //			FO9			Ks		BCSB X GB3 1-3 #4 1,2
6.  C Kotchman 1B		K		Ks			FC BH8		CBBX GB3 3UA
7.  M Joyce RF		WP IF-BH3		pop FO2f //			GB3 DP FC 3-4 throw high and wide 4np		BBCF FBX RBI bloop CF BH8 short #4 2,H
8.  S Rodriguez SS		Ks			DP BB		BB #7 1,2 coach to the mound		BCFX GB3 3UA ///
9.  K Shoppach C		WP #7 1,2 Ks //			FO8		Ks //
Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB	0 0 0 2	0 1 0 1	0 0 2 1	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	0 1 0 2	0 0 0 0	1 1 0 1

Rays' Bench

Fielders

Bullpen

Starters

Rays' Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
David Price	6.0	5	5	2	2	7	1	100/63	3.35
Cesar Ramos	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	16/12	4.01
Dane De La Rosa	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	15/10	12.00
J.P. Howell	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	0	18/11	6.16