Game Summaries
Tuesday April 2nd/07
5VS
3
The Blue Jays picked up their 1st win in 2007 on opening day in Detroit.They came out the gate swinging in the 1st inning when both Alex Rios and Lyle Overbay had RBI doubles and there was also an RBI single for Vernon wells as the jays touched Jeremy Bonderman for 3 runs in the 1st inning.The tigers would claw their way back in it tho on a sacrifice line out by Gary Sheffield in the 3rd and thn an RBI single by Placido Polanco,and a sacrifice fly out by Gary Sheffield would tie the game at 3-3.The Jays would be ropped of homeruns by the Tigers left fielder Craig Monroe as he brought a ball back at the wall from both Troy Glaus &Reed Johnson,But they would not be denied in extra innings as the top of 10th Troy Glaus singled with the bases loaded to regain the lead 4-3 and a sacrifice out by Rios Made it 5-3.Then BJ Ryan closed the door in the 9th for his 1st save of 2007.Roy Halladay pitched fairly well giving up 2 earned runs on 6 hits and 4 Strikeouts the win goes to Jason Frasor.The Jays play game 2 of this series,Wednesday afternoon in Detroit at 1:05.
Wednesday April 4th/07
9VS10
The Blue jays evened up their record at 1-1 after falling in game 2 of the opening season series to the defending american league champions Detroit Tigers.And the Tigers showed why they are just that in the 3rd inning of this one as it was not the kind of start AJ Burnett invisioned in his game.Burnett game up 6 runs on 5 hits 2 stolen bases by Marcus Granderson and Placido Polancoand then a couple of RBI Singles and the Jays were down 3-0.Burnett would leave the game down 3-0 but left Shawn Marcum in a deep hole to get out of Marcum walked in one run which was charged to Burnett and then game up a Grand slam homerun to Marcus Granderson.Which left Butnett with 6 earned runs against him and the Blue Jays in an 8-0 Hole.And the Tigers would not stop there as in the bottom of the 4th they would add another run on a sacrifice groundout to make it 9-0 after 4 innings of play.Tha Blue Jays would finally hit the scoreboard in the top of the 6th when Aaron Hill blasted his 1st homerun of the season and the Jays then trailed 9-2.But the giers got that back in the bottom of the 7th when Marcus Granderson picked up his 5th RBI of the game tripling to right field.But the Blue Jays would not go away that easy as in the top of the 8th they sparked a 7 run inning to only trail by 1 when one of the new comers to the Jays Jason smith came thru with a big 3 run triple to help spark that inning but it would all be for not as the jays left the tying run on base in both the 8th and 9th inning and fell to the tigers 10-9 But they showed they will not go away easy this year no matter what the score.Gustavo Chacin will get the ball for the Jays tomorrow in the finale of this 3 game series in Detroit he will go against Justin Verlander,it all statrts at 1:05 PM.
Thurs April 5th/07
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