Good rebound game for the Jays and Jesse Litsch continues to prove me wrong. The Rangers helped the Jays out w/some sloppy defence and as one guy in front of me said to just write debacle in my scorebook.
I have no problem w/Gibbons using Downs for the save in that situation. The hope was Frasor could just pitch a scoreless inning but after a couple reached base the rangers had a number of LH bats due up, so it made sense to use your LH specialist, despite the save situation. I still think Accardo is the closer until Ryan returns.
After watching Padilla pitch and talking to some of the Ranger fans I get the sense they have the same feeling when he pitches as Jays fans due with Burnett. Padilla doesn’t have the stuff of Burnett, but doesn’t seem to live up to his potential as he seems to lack concentration at times. Padilla cruised through the 1st 3 innings then ran into problems in the 4th and 5th.
Loved the double steal. Worth the risk when you are up by 2 w/2 outs and Eckstein up. Based on Laird’s reaction don’t even think he considered Zaun trying to come home. Tough day in general for Laird as twice he threw it away on steal attempts and got charged with errors. Luckily he got a gift as Zaun swung through the pitch on a hit and run and Overbay was a dead duck.
Coats has got to learn to call off his infielders. He had plenty of time to call off Eckstein and make the catch in the 7th. Eckstein still should have caught it, but the reason the OF has priority is b/c it is easier coming in on a ball than going back.
On with the stats: Not a good day for the Jays with 3 Non-Advances, but in 2 of the 3 cases the next hitters picked them up.
Adv: Young
P-Adv: Litsch (2)
NAdv: Rios (4), Hill (1), Overbay (1), Young
P-NAdv: Frasor (1), Padilla 2, Fukumori
WG: Murphy
ME(r): Scutaro (1)
ME(f): Fukumori, Hamilton
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