August 20th Game Complete
Boston Red Sox 8 (W 69-51)
Toronto Blue Jays 1 (L 55-64)
Jon Lester (W, 10-7)
Brett Cecil (L, 5-2)
Game Notes:
Sloppy defense and the Jays inability to get to Red Sox starter Jon Lester early while he was struggling, may have pushed the momentum the Red Sox way in this game.
The Jays began the game by getting to the normally reliable Lester by loading the bases with none out in the first inning.
The Jays only managed to score one run and after playing poor defense and lacking in offense the Red Sox bats came alive and took over this game.
J.D Drew had two home runs in the game batting out of an uncustomary number eight spot in the Red Sox order.
The Jays, ranked the best defensive team in the American League committed three errors in the game.
One error was especially crucial.
With Jason Bay on first base after a walk in the top of the 4th inning, Jays starter Brett Cecil threw the baseball into the Jays dugout thinking time had been called, after he ran off the mound to pick up a poor Rod Barajas throw back to the mound.
The umpires awarded Bay with two bags and from that point on the momentum of the game seemed to switch to Boston.
The Jays only managed three hits in the game off the combination of Jon Lester and Red Sox reliever Fernando Cabrera.
Final starting pitching lines for the game:
Brett Cecil - 4.1IP, 6H, 6R, 4ER, 3BB, 2K
Jon Lester - 8IP, 3H, 1R, 1ER, 2BB, 5K
Aaron Hill, 2-4
J.D Drew, 4-4, 2HR, 3RBI, 2 runs scored
Victor Martinez, 1-5, 1HR, 1RBI, 1 run scored
Blue Jays News:
Blue Jays third baseman Edwin Encarnacion left the game after three innings with a sore left knee.
Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston plans on shutting down rookie starters Brett Cecil and Marc Rzepczynski as they creep closer to an innings limit set by the manager.
What this means is a possible rotation stir up will come the Jays way in September.
Cecil and Rzepczynski will make their final starts September 4th and 5th respectively before being removed from the Jays rotation.
Brian Tallet will shift out of the bullpen to finish out the season in the rotation and one of Triple A Las Vegas pitchers David Purcey or Fabio Castro will be called up to man the last spot in the rotation.
Other Baseball News:
Congratulations go out to Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia who is a new father of newborn boy Dylan Pedroia.
Boston also released outfielder/first baseman Chris Duncan. Duncan was the player acquired when the Red Sox shipped Julio Lugo to the St.Louis Cardinals.
The New York Mets have released veteran right hander Livan Hernandez to clear space on their major league roster for returning fireballer Billy Wagner.
Finally, The body of a 22 year old man was found Thursday on the Carriso Springs, Texas ranch of Atlanta Braves third baseman Chipper Jones.
The body was found by a foreman of the ranch at 6:30am yesterday.
The body of the man was found in a section of the ranch that is rarely visited by the Jones family and it appears as if the man suffered from lack of hydration and heat exhaustion.
The Carriso Springs police department has not commented on the incident.
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