Nothing seems to go right for the Jays these days. Burnett w/another horrible start giving up 8 runs (6 earned) on 12 hits. At least he didn’t walk anyone. You know things aren’t going your way when Kendrick gets jammed but the ball ends up going just inside the 1st base line and goes for a 2B (seems like those kinds of hits always go against the Jays). The 2B scored the 2nd run of the inning but then Burnett settled in holding them scoreless for the next 3 innings. However, in the sixth a misplayed flyball by Rios (which was horribly scored a 2B, talk about hometown scoring) and an error by Scutaro led to 3 runs and the Angels tacked on 3 more against Burnett in the 7th.
I would have had Burnett out of the game after the Kotchman 2B and the Izturis 1B to start the 7th. At that point it may not have mattered since the Jays offence wasn’t doing anything anyway, but it looked to me like Burnett was done and you’d like to keep a comeback as a slight possibility.
It took until the 8th inning for the Jays to get to Weaver as they went 2B, 3B to start the inning and chase Weaver. I would have left Weaver in and see what he could do in that situation. You’re still up 8-1 at that point and the next 3 hitters were a combined 1 for 8 w/4 strikeouts so far. Weaver had only thrown 106 pitches (just 8 of 29 1st pitches were balls) and sometimes you have to see how your starter will respond in those situations. Weaver wasn’t really showing signs of fatigue so why not see if he can regain his composure and pitch out of it. Of course having not watched everyone of the Angels games this yr maybe Scoscia already knows Weaver’s limit.
Here are the stats:
Adv: Hunter
P-Adv: Burnett (3)
Adv+: Izturis
P-Adv+: Burnett (3)
WG: Kotchman, Izturis
ME(f): Rios (4), Wells (2), Matthews
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