Another strong start for Halladay having no problems w/BAL. When your bullpen has to throw 4 innings to complete a previous game earlier in the day it really helps having Halladay start the 2nd game knowing he will eat up some innings. Halladay went 7 innings giving up just 1 run.
The offence jumped on Daniel Cabrera for 11 hits and 7 runs in 5+ innings. If not for a strong throw from Markakis to nail Stairs at the plate in the 2nd and send the Blue Jays away w/nothing from a bases loaded 1-out situation it could have been a lot worse. As it was the Jays scored in 4 consecutive innings from the 3rd to the 6th providing more than enough support for Halladay and the bullpen.
Daniel Cabrera was struggling to put away the Jays as they continually got hits when behind in the count. Lind and Wilkerson had back-to-back 1B’s in the 2nd on 1-2 and 0-2 counts respectively. He gave up a 1B to Wilkerson in the 4th on 1-2 and Scutaro hit a 2B on 0-1 in the 5th. In the 6th Rolen singled on 0-1, Lind followed w/a 1B on 0-2, and Zaun singled on 0-1. For a guy w/as good of stuff as Cabrera he should have a huge advantage when getting ahead and should not be giving up so many hits. However that is the knock on Cabrera, he does not have good control. Although this game he only walked 2 and beaned 1, but he was throwing too many hittable strikes. There is a big difference between just throwing strikes and throwing quality strikes.
I was surprised to see the Orioles not bring the infield in after the WP in the 6th put runners at 2nd and 3rd w/none out. Wilkerson was up to bat and the Orioles were already down 4-0 and you have Halladay on the opposing mound. If you’re the Orioles I don’t think you can afford to give up anymore runs.
Rios had some trouble reading the ball off the bat of Mora in the 4th. Rios initially broke to this right and then had to quickly adjust his route and run back. Rios did not catch up to it and it went for a 2B. Rios still seems to be adjusting to how to read the ball off the bat when playing in CF.
Scutaro and Lind led the way for the jays w/3 hits a piece. The team went 5 for 15 w/RISP.
Nick Markakis showed off his arm in this game picking up a pair of OF assists. The 1st he nailed Stairs at the plate trying to score on a fly out w/a great throw on the money. The 2nd was simply b/c he made a throw to the plate that was low enough the cut-off man could cut if off. Wilkerson tried for 2nd after his 1B as Markakis’ throw went towards the plate to try and get Lind trying to score from 2nd. However Huff cut it off and they had Wilkerson caught up between 1st and 2nd.
The opposite of Markakis’ throw was from Payton as he airmailed a throw to the plate trying to get Scutaro. The throw was well over the cut off man and Overbay easily took 2nd base.
Let’s see the stats:
Adv: Rios (2)
P-Adv: D. Cabrera
Adv+: Scutaro (4), Wilkerson (2), Zaun (3)
P-Adv+: D. Cabrera 3
NAdv: Rios (10), Scott
P-NAdv: Halladay (8), D. Cabrera
WG: Payton
ME(f): Payton
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