Baltimore Orioles (27-22) at Toronto Blue Jays (20-29)
Starting Pitchers:
Baltimore: Miguel Gonzalez (2-2, 4.25 ERA)
Toronto: Chad Jenkins (1-0, 3.60 ERA)
Sunday, May 26, 2013
From Rogers Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
First Pitch: 1:07 pm est
Series Game 4 of 4
Season Game 50 of 162
Umpires:
Home - Manny Gonzalez
First Base - Tony Randazzo
Second Base - Dan Bellino
Third Base - Wally Bell
Baltimore Orioles Manager: Buck Showalter
Toronto Blue Jays Manager: John Gibbons
Game Notes
2nd Inning
With all the injuries again this year to the Blue Jays pitching staff I was thinking about the benefits of steroids to recovery time from injury. With the random and effective testing regime now working - the cost of running a MLB club has changed - dramatically perhaps.
7th Inning
Gibbons' (miss) managing his bench.
Encarnacion AB
BH9
#1 2,3
#2 1,2
Milky held at 3rd.
Didn't see the play (listening on radio). One wonders why Milky isn't pinch run for in his inning possibly the run plates on the hit to right, and Bautista to 3rd on the throw to home. At home managers usually play aggressively - play for the win because you get last at bats.
Take out Milky after the Baustista BH moves him into scoring position, Izturis or Rasmus. Rasmus would be the idea PR as he could then take over in CF and Gose moves to left for your best defence and speed into the late innings of a close game. Seems though, that Rasmus gets Sunday's off after an afternoon Saturday game (except for pinch-hit duties late).
Bottom 8th
Tommy Hunter makes a barehanded catch with the bases loaded of a Bautista ground ball ends the inning. A deflating, game-changing play that at that point seemed to be the play of the game.
Here's the video of Tommy Hunters amazing catch, from MLB:
9th Inning
Both teams left base runner all over the base paths today but especially the Jays. In the 4th the Blue Jays had runners on first and second with no outs and could only muster a single run on a sac fly. Then in the 7th the Jays' left the sacks full without plating a run in a rally that started with two outs. In the eighth they again plated only one batting at one point, with the bases loaded and just one out.
Jay's were not getting that key base hit of late that would put them in charge in this series, Jays since opening day are 7-17 in one-run games. The Jays are more apt to lose rather than win - close games.
So it was typical of this game - and of the Blue Jays season in general - when Munenori Kawasaki came up with one out in the 9th with the tying and winning runs on the bases - Kawasaki was in a place of much tension - set up where he could succeed at exactly what he was good a doing - turning the line-up over, getting the clutch base hit - and in doing so, plating the tying run and keeping the rally wheel rolling - or he could fail at exactly what he does best, and end the game the goat after an other-wise, good day at the plate.
Munenori Kawasaki did neither - instead he slapped an Ichiro-style a line drive that landed between the left and centre fielders and went all the way to the wall! plating the tying run and the winning run in the person of the not-so-fleet-a-foot Mike DeRosa - all the way from 1st. Kawasaki could have taken the extra bag for the official triple (Balitimore centre fielder Adam Jones had no play on DeRosa) - but on his way around second he veers off towards the team celebration, pouring onto the field from the 3B dugout while Mike DeRosa touches the plate.
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Video of Kawasaki's walk-off double is presently not available for embed. (I suspect the video is being farmed around to news agencies globally.) You may watch it at this MLB page: http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2013_05_26_balmlb_tormlb_1&mode=box (click the video tab top-right, scroll down the list - you're looking for "Kawasaki's walk-off 2B"
Line-ups pitching totals via http://espn.go.com/mlb/boxscore?id=330526114
This article was cross-posted at Michael Holloway's Baseball Blog - "Kawasaki smacks a walk-off double - Jays split Baltimore series": http://baseball---blog.blogspot.ca/2013/05/kawasaki-smacks-walk-off-double-jays.html
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Baltimore Orioles
1. N McLouth LF
2. M Machado 3B
3. N Markakis RF
4. A Jones CF
5. C Davis 1B
6. J Hardy SS
7. M Wieters C
8. D Valencia DH
9. A Casilla 2B
Per-Inning Totals
Runs
Hits
Errors
LOB
Orioles Bench
Catchers
Infielders
Outfielders
Toronto Blue Jays
1. M Cabrera LF
2. J Bautista RF
3. E Encarnacion 1B
4. A Lind DH
5. J Arencibia C
6. B Lawrie 3B
7. A Gose CF
8. E Bonifacio 2B
8th PH C Rasmus
9th M DeRosa 2B
8th PH C Rasmus
9th M DeRosa 2B
9. M Kawasaki SS
Per-Inning Totals
Runs
Hits
Errors
LOB
Jays Bench
Catchers
22 Henry Blanco R-R
Infielders
3 Maicer Izturis S-R
Outfielders
1st
1st
0
2
0
1
Relief Pitchers
Starting Pitchers
1st
1st
0
0
0
1
Relief Pitchers
Starting Pitchers
Box Score
Baltimore Orioles
Toronto Blue Jays
2nd
2nd
2
3
0
1
Orioles Pitching
Pitcher
Miguel Gonzalez
Brian Matusz
Tommy Hunter
Jim Johnson
2nd
2nd
0
0
0
0
Jays Pitching
Pitcher
Chad Jenkins
Thad Weber
Aaron Loup
Steve Delabar
1st
0
0
2nd
2
0
3rd
0
0
3rd
3rd
0
1
0
2
IP
5.2
1.0
1.1
0.2
H
4
0
4
4
R
1
0
1
4
ER
1
0
1
4
3rd
3rd
0
2
0
2
IP
5.0
1.0
2.0
1.0
H
8
2
2
2
R
2
0
1
2
ER
2
0
1
2
4th
0
1
5th
0
0
6th
0
0
4th
4th
0
0
0
0
BB
3
1
1
1
SO
7
2
1
0
HR
0
0
0
0
P/S
101/58
24/14
28/19
37/20
4th
4th
1
2
0
1
BB
3
1
0
1
SO
2
0
4
0
HR
0
0
1
0
P/S
88/51
19/11
32/24
27/18
7th
1
0
8th
0
1
9th
2
4
5th
5th
0
2
0
3
ERA
3.94
3.15
1.86
5.25
5th
5th
0
0
1
1
ERA
3.60
0.00
2.60
2.42
Runs
5
6
Hits
14
12
6th
6th
0
2
0
2
6th
6th
0
0
0
1
Errors
0
1
LOB
12
13
7th
7th
1
1
0
0
7th
7th
0
2
0
3
8th
8th
0
1
0
1
8th
8th
1
2
0
3
9th
WP
(PB?)
(PB?)
9th
2
2
0
2
9th
9th
4
4
0
1
Batting Totals
AB
R
H
RBI
AB
R
H
RBI
AB
R
H
RBI
AB
R
H
RBI
AB
R
H
RBI
AB
R
H
RBI
AB
R
H
RBI
AB
R
H
RBI
AB
R
H
RBI
Per-Inning Totals
5
14
0
12
Batting Totals
AB
R
H
RBI
AB
R
H
RBI
AB
R
H
RBI
AB
R
H
RBI
AB
R
H
RBI
AB
R
H
RBI
AB
R
H
RBI
AB
R
H
RBI
AB
5
R
0
H
3
RBI
3
Per-Inning Totals
6
12
1
13
BB
SO
LOB
BA
BB
SO
LOB
BA
BB
SO
LOB
BA
BB
SO
LOB
BA
BB
SO
LOB
BA
BB
SO
LOB
BA
BB
SO
LOB
BA
BB
SO
LOB
BA
BB
SO
LOB
BA
BB
SO
LOB
BA
BB
SO
LOB
BA
BB
SO
LOB
BA
BB
SO
LOB
BA
BB
SO
LOB
BA
BB
SO
LOB
BA
BB
SO
LOB
BA
BB
SO
LOB
BA
BB
0
SO
1
LOB
3
BA
.237
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