25/Sept/2011 Jays at Rays - Game 3 of 3

From Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida,

USA

Toronto Blue Jays

(80-78)

Manager:  John Farrell

@

Tampa Bay Rays

(87-71)

Manager:  Joe Maddon

Game 3 of 3

First pitch:1:40 PM EST


Starting Pitchers
Toronto Blue Jays - Brett Cecil
Tampa Bay Rays - Wade Davis


Umpires
Home -
3B -
2B -
1B -


Weather




Jays are playing the 'B' team today:
Encarnacion at 3B instead of DH. Encarnacion has proven himself at 1B and Chris Woodward is better at 3B than anyone available.
Cooper, (AAABatting Champion) at 1B - did not work out well yesteday.
Wise in CF instead of Rasmus (later learned he's out with the flu).

Toronto is having a look at Cooper for next year - to see how he reacts to ML pitching. In my opinion 1B effects all other infielders more than a change at any other position - playing Cooper there in the rubber, and in a game with League consequences, ain't cricket (don't tell Boston).


Final:  Jays 2 - Rays 5

Tampa is now .5 behind Boston for the wild card. Boston starts the second of 2 at NYY in 2 hours. If they lose again, the wild card will be tied with 3 to play. NYY come to Tampa. Boston goes to Baltimore, who have been giant killers of late - so it's still up in the air. As well, Los Angeles is leading over Oakland up 2 to 0 in the 3rd - they're back 1.5 at this moment.


Line-ups and Pitching Totals help 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
Toronto Blue Jays	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	-	-	2	3	0	3
Tampa Bay Rays	2	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	x	-	-	5	8	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.  M McCoy SS	pop FO6		LO4		LO1 //			FO9
2.  E Thames LF	6-3		3BH8(9)			FC BB		Ks //	Announced that Boston has lost - load cheering.
3.  J Bautista RF 6th PH M Teahen - RF	Ks //		GB5 great play Prick //			PH K			J Peralta + FO9
4.  K Johnson 2B		RS BB		pop FO4		GB5 DP FC 5-4-3 #2 out			FO7
5.  E Encarnacion 3B		FO8		K		FO9 //			6-3 /// Tampa .5 behind BOS
6.  D Cooper 1B		RBI 2BH8 wall 8-6 #4 1,H		3-1 //			1-3
7.  J Arencibia C		6-3			pop FO3f		4-3
8.  A Loewen DH		Ks //			K		FO8 deep //
9.  D Wise CF			FO7		RS RBI HR9			6-3
Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB	0 0 0 0	1 1 0 1	0 1 0 1	0 0 0 0	1 1 0 0	0 0 0 1	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	0 0 x 0

Toronto Blue Jays' Bench

Fielders

Bullpen

Starters

Jays' Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
Brett Cecil	3.1	5	4	4	2	1	3	73/42	4.73
Jesse Litsch	2.1	2	1	1	0	4	1	45/27	4.44
Shawn Camp	1.0	1	0	0	0	2	0	18/10	4.29
Luis Perez	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	15/9	5.12
Danny Farquhar	0.1	0	0	0	0	1	0	4/3	13.50

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	FO9		Ks	Litsch + Ks		Camp + Ks //
2.  B Upton CF	RS RBI HR7		pop behind 3 4 calling FO3	IF-BH5 #9 1,2			BBBC FC K
3.  E Longoria 3B	4-3		Hits one of the rings that makes it a HR. RS 2RBI HR #9 1,H	FO8 //			pop FO9 short sliding catch!
4.  B Zobrist 2B	Bautista laying on the track as the play unfolds. Trainer goes out - stays in game after a short delay. Knee. RS RBI 4BH9 9 hits the wall Hard 8-3-2		SB 2-6 BB		Ks		BH9 Camp -
5.  J Damon DH	LO6 //		#4 1,2 BB		Ks		L Perez + LO3 //
6.  S Rodriguez SS		FO8	HBP #4 2,3 #5 1,2		K //			6-3
7.  C Kotchman 1B		3UA	pop 9 line FO4! //			4-3		HBP
8.  B Guyer RF 6th PH M Joyce - RF		5-3 //		5-3		PH FO8		K Perez -
9.  K Shoppach C			Had time with catcher running - but hurried it. That's an E to me. :) RS GB5 ranging left throws the ball wide hp BH ?	BH7 Cecil -		RS RBI HR7 Litsch -		Farquhar + Ks //
Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB	2 2 0 0	0 0 0 0	2 2 0 3	0 2 0 2	0 0 0 0	1 1 0 0	0 1 0 1	0 0 0 1	x x 0 x

Tampa Bay Rays Bench

Fielders

Bullpen

Starters

Rays' Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
Wade Davis	8.0	3	2	2	2	6	1	107/76	4.45
Joel Peralta	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11/8	2.97