With the rain cutting short A.J.’s performance the bullpen had to pick up a few innings in order to close the game out. Well that they did as Carlson, Camp, and Downs threw 4 shutout innings giving up just 2 hits. As a result A.J. picked up a win on a day he didn’t even throw a pitch (he last threw probably some 16.5 hrs ago). Burnett was looking good during the innings he did pitch as he did not walk a batter while striking out 7.
I think those 3 add-on runs the Jays scored in the 8th were big. They came back the next day to resume play from where it was suspended and the Jays had to protect a 2-1 lead. You come out on a new day and the whole rhythm of the game has changed. I think those 3 runs kind of deflated the Orioles hopes of coming back.
I’m surprised the Orioles left Cormier in to pitch to Stairs only to intentionally walk him. They then brought in another RH to face Rolen, who then had to face Lind. I would have brought in the lefty to face Stairs, then intentionally walked Rolen, and the lefty could then also face Lind. Even if the Jays PH Mench for Stairs then you still have the choice of your lefty going after either Mench or Rolen.
The Jays did not exactly light up the RISP #’s as they went 3 for 15 but they managed to score 5 runs. Meanwhile the Orioles were only 1 for 8 w/RISP.
It was particularly a bad game for Adam Jones who has had a lot of success against the Jays so far this yr. He went 0 for 4, striking out twice and grounding into a DP.
For the Jays both Rios and Stairs struck out 3 times. At least Rios managed to pick up 1 hit and he stole a base and then scored what proved to be the winning run.
Let’s go to the stats:
Adv: Barajas (1)
P-Adv: Guthrie
Adv+: McDonald (1), Overbay (2)
P-Adv+: Guthrie 2
NAdv: Barajas (6), Millar, Jones
P-NAdv: Burnett (13), Downs (3), Cormier
DE: Hernandez
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