You’d think riding the momentum of last night’s exciting victory and Halladay vs Marquis would lean in the Jays favour. However, this is baseball and that 2 out error by Eckstein in the 2nd that allowed one to score just seemed to turn everything around. The error extended the inning for Reed Johnson to step up and hit a 3-run HR and w/the Jays offence you had the feeling they were done already.
All the Jays could manage was one hit through the first 7 innings against Marquis. Apparently the Jays finally realized it was Jason Marquis and not Fergie Jenkins on the mound and got 3 straight hits to load the bases to start the 8th. Pinella then brought in Marmol and true to form the Jays only got one, and even it was thanks to a bases loaded walk. For the game the Jays ended up 1 for 6 w/RISP.
The Cubs have big problems if Pinella does not trust anyone else other than Marmol to come in and protect a 6-run lead in the 8th inning, even if the bases are loaded. Marmol has already logged a lot of innings and if Pinella is not careful he’ll be out of gas come Oct.
Not often you see Halladay only go 5 innings but I think he could have gone another inning. It wasn’t that bad a start given the fact if Eckstein makes the play then Halladay is out of the inning w/o giving up a run and he only gave up 2 the rest of the way. At least it gave some of the Jays seldom used relievers a chance to get a few innings.
Let’s check the stats:
Adv+: Eckstein (2)
P-Adv+: Marquis
NAdv: Inglett (3)
P-NAdv: Marmol
ME(f): Wells (1), Overbay (1)
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