Aug 19th Scorecard: Rangers at Blue Jays - Game 3

From Rogers Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Texas Rangers

(69-50)

Manager: Ron Washington

@

Toronto Blue Jays

(56-64)

Manager: John Farrell

Game 3 of 3

First pitch: 1:07 pm edt

Starting Pitchers
Texas: Harrison (13-7, 3.24 ERA)
Toronto: Alvarez (7-10, 4.48 ERA)

Umpires
Home - Bill Welke
First Base - Angel Campos
Second Base - Tim Tschida
Third Base - Jeff Nelson

Weather
High cloud, warm, light wind - SSE 17 km/h.


Rosters via MLB. Line-ups and Pitching Totals via ESPN.

Notes:

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 Ks2f Foul tip with 2 strikes, caught by catcher - strike three - - - - - - - - - - - -

Box Score - F/9	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Runs	Hits	Errors	LOB
Texas Rangers	0	0	2	1	5	2	0	0	1	-	-	11	19	0	10
Toronto Blue Jays	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	-	-	2	2	0	1

Texas Rangers	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	-	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
1. I Kinsler 2B	FO7		2BH7 #9 1,3		FO3f	1-3 /		FO8		BB		AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
2. E Andrus SS	DP BH5 5-3 safe!		Ks		RS BH8		FC BH8 short	Ks /		BH7 #1 1,2		AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
3. J Hamilton CF PH 8th  C Gentry - CF	DP5-6-3 #2 out /		Ks		2BH8 #2 1,H RS RBI		RS FC 6UA #2 out		B. Lyon P ph 6-3	5-3 /		AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
4. A Beltre DH		FO8	5-3 /		RS BB		FO7		FO4 pop			AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
5. N Cruz RF PH 8th L Martin - LF		DP BB		1-3	RS RBI BH7 #3 2,H #4 1,2		2BH9 GR #3 1,3 RS		ph BB			AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
6. M Young 3B 8th M Olt 3B		DP 6-3 #5 out /		RS BH9 short	RS 3RBI HR8 #4 2,H #5 1,H		2BH8 #3 3,H #5 2,H 2RBI		FO8 /			AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
7. D Murphy LF - 8th RF			2BH8/9 GR RS	9-5 (trying to advance on throw from right) 2BH9 short #6 1,H 9-5 #7 out	BB		4-3 /			C. Jenkins P RS RBI HR9		AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
8. G Soto C			RS RBI BH9 #7 2,H 9-2 safe! #8 1,2	BH7	B. Lincoln P BH7 #7 1,2			S. Delabar P Ks		5-3		AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
9. M Moreland 1B			RBI BH9 short #8 2,H	Ks /	Ks			2BH8/7		FO6 pop		AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	-	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	2 4 0 2	1 3 1		5 5 0 2	2 3 0 1	0 1 0 1	0 0 0 1	1 2 0 2

Texas Rangers Bench (Bat/Throw)

Fielders

Bullpen

Starters

Catchers
15 Luis Martinez R-R
8 Geovany Soto R-R

Infielders
1 Elvis Andrus R-R
29 Adrian Beltre R-R
5 Ian Kinsler R-R
18 Mitch Moreland L-L
9 Mike Olt R-R
10 Michael Young R-R

Outfielders
17 Nelson Cruz R-R
23 Craig Gentry R-R
32 Josh Hamilton L-L
27 Leonys Martin L-R
7 David Murphy L-L

37 Mike Adams R-R
39 Scott Feldman L-R
50 Michael Kirkman L-L
57 Mark Lowe L-R
36 Joe Nathan R-R
41 Alexi Ogando R-R
46 Robbie Ross L-L
52 Tanner Scheppers R-R

11 Yu Darvish R-R
54 Matt Harrison L-L
45 Derek Holland S-L
44 Roy Oswalt R-R

Rangers Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
Matt Harrison

Toronto Blue Jays	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th
1. R Davis LF PH 9th A Gose	6-3		Ks			FO7			M. Lowe P ph 4-3			AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
2. C Rasmus CF	6-3 6-3		4-3 /			3UA			FO7			AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
3. E Encarnacion 1B	FO8 /			6-3		FO9 /			5-3 //			AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
4. Y Escobar SS		RS BH8 short		6-3			FO8					AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
5. M Sierra RF		BB #4 1,2		K /			Ks					AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
6. J Mathis DH		SAC bunt5 5-3 #4 2,3 #5 1,2			K		FO7 /					AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
7. M McCoy 3B		SAC RBI 5-3 #4 3,H #5 2,3			RS RBI HR7			FO8				AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
8. Y Gomes C		Ks /			6-3			Ks				AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
9. A Hechavarria 2B			Ks		6-3 /			5-3 /				AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
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 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	1 1 0 0	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0

Toronto Blue Jays Bench (Bat/Throw)

Fielders

Bullpen

Starters

Catchers
6 Jeff Mathis R-R
68 Yan Gomes R-R

Infielders
30 David Cooper L-L
10 Edwin Encarnacion R-R
5 Yunel Escobar R-R
3 Adeiny Hechavarria R-R
2 Kelly Johnson L-R
18 Mike McCoy R-R
17 Omar Vizquel S-R

Outfielders
11 Rajai Davis R-R
43 Anthony Gose L-L
28 Colby Rasmus L-L
14 Moises Sierra R-R

50 Steve Delabar R-R
44 Casey Janssen R-R
64 Chad Jenkins R-R
49 Brad Lincoln L-R
62 Aaron Loup L-L
31 Brandon Lyon R-R
38 Darren Oliver R-L

37 Henderson Alvarez R-R
48 J.A. Happ L-L
32 Aaron Laffey SP
24 Ricky Romero R-L
33 Carlos Villanueva R-R

Jays Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
Henderson Alvarez