TNK - RED SOX FRANCHISE
TORONTO BLUE JAYS @ BOSTON RED SOX
GAME #93 of the season (Pitching Matchup - Brandon Morrow vs. Clay Buchholz)
The Red Sox and Blue Jays begin a 3 game series at Fenway Park with Clay Buchholz facing Brandon Morrow on the mound. The slumping Dustin Pedroia gets the night off with Nick Punto getting the start at 2nd base for Boston. The Red Sox got a run in the bottom of the 1st as Ellsbury led off with a double and eventually came in to score on a ground out by Ortiz to take a 1-0 lead. Toronto had runners at the corners with two outs in the top of the 2nd but Buchholz would get Kelly Johnson to fly out to CF to end the threat and keep the Jays off the board. Jose Bautista hit a moonshot in the top of the 3rd for a 2-run HR to give the Jays a 2-1 lead. The Red Sox tied the game in the bottom of the 4th when Adrian Gonzalez squared up a 96mph fastball from Morrow and crushed a 445 foot solo HR that went about 10 to 15 rows over the bullpens in RF for a solo HR and we would go to the 5th inning with the score knotted up at 2-2. The Blue Jays got a leadoff single from Lawrie in the top of the 6th, Adam Lind followed with a walk and Buchholz had to leave the game with an injury as Andrew Miller replaced him with two men on and nobody out. Miller got Edwin Encarnacion to ground into a 3-6-1 double play for two huge outs as Lawrie moved up to 3rd base with Travis Snyder coming up and two outs. Miller would get out of the jam as he got Snyder to ground out to end the threat and keep the score tied at 2-2. The Red Sox got a one out single from Crawford in the top of the 6th and David Ortiz came up next and absolutely destroyed a 95 mph fastball from Morrow for a 433 foot 2-run HR that bounced off the back wall above the camera man in CF to give Boston a 4-2 lead. Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Cody Ross hit back to back doubles to extend the lead to 5-2 at the end of 6 innings. Andrew Miller pitched another good inning int he top of the 7th and Darren Oliver pitched a 1-2-3 bottom of the 7th to send the game to the 8th inning with the Red Sox leading 5-2. Scott Atchison came on to pitch the top of the 8th and struck out Jose Bautista and Brett Lawrie on 7 pitches to begin the inning before giving up a solo HR to Adam Lind to make it a 5-3 game. Edwin Encarnacion would ground out to SS to end the inning and we would go to the bottom of the 8th with the Sox up 5-3. Darren Oliver pitched around a walk in the top of the 9th and we would go to the bottom of the 9th with the Blue Jays trailing by two runs with a score of 5-3. Red Sox closer Alfredo Aceves entered the game for the bottom of the 9th with a two run lead and looking to record the save. Travis Snyder grounded out to SS to begin the inning for the 1st out. JP Arencibia struck out looking as Aceves froze him with a curveball on the oustide corner for the 2nd out. Kelly Johnson kept the Jays alive with a ground rule double to RF and Toronto would bring the tying run to the plate with the top of the order coming up. Yunel Escobar was down to his last strike when he lined an RBI single up the middle to cut the lead to 5-4. Colby Rasmus would come up next and Aceves would get Rasmus to hit a routine fly ball to Ellsbury in CF for the final out with Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista standing in the on deck circle as the Red Sox hang on for the 5-4 victory.
* The Red Sox take the opener of the series. Toronto will send newly acquired lefty JA Happ to the mound tomorrow for his 1st start in a Blue Jays uniform against Boston lefty Felix Doubront.
* David Ortiz and Adrian Gonzalez each homered for the 2nd day in a row
* Carl Crawford was 2 for 4 in the game and is hitting .294 in 5 games since returning from the disabled list.
* Clay Buchholz left the game with Shoulder Tightness and will only be out a day or two. Buchholz is only out for a day or two so he will not need a DL stint and should be all set to make his next scheduled start.
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><link href="http://dynasties.operationsports.com/css/osdyn.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"></head><body><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn" width="575"><tr class="masthead"><td align="center" colspan="13">Toronto Blue Jays at Boston Red Sox</td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="40%">Jul 20, 2012</td><td align="right" width="5%">1</td><td align="right" width="5%">2</td><td align="right" width="5%">3</td><td align="right" width="5%">4</td><td align="right" width="5%">5</td><td align="right" width="5%">6</td><td align="right" width="5%">7</td><td align="right" width="5%">8</td><td align="right" width="5%">9</td><td align="right" width="5%">R</td><td align="right" width="5%">H</td><td align="right" width="5%">E</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Toronto (41-51)</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right" class="active">4</td><td align="right">11</td><td align="right">0</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Boston (54-39)</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">X</td><td align="right" class="active">5</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">0</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td align="center" colspan="13"><b>W:</b> Andrew Miller (3-1) <b>L:</b> Brandon Morrow (7-9) <b>S:</b> Alfredo Aceves (23)</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead"><td colspan="5">Scoring Summary</td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td colspan="3" width="84%">SCORING DETAILS</td><td align="right" width="8%">TOR</td><td align="right" width="8%">BOS</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td align="center" width="7%">BOS</td><td align="center" width="7%">1</td><td width="70%">David Ortiz grounded out to 1B (Ellsbury scores)</td><td align="right" width="8%">0</td><td align="right" width="8%">1</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td align="center" width="7%">TOR</td><td align="center" width="7%">3</td><td width="70%">Jose Bautista 2-run HR to LF (Escobar scores)</td><td align="right" width="8%">2</td><td align="right" width="8%">1</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td align="center" width="7%">BOS</td><td align="center" width="7%">4</td><td width="70%">Adrian Gonzalez solo HR to RF</td><td align="right" width="8%">2</td><td align="right" width="8%">2</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td align="center" width="7%">BOS</td><td align="center" width="7%">6</td><td width="70%">David Ortiz 2-run HR to CF (Crawford scores)</td><td align="right" width="8%">2</td><td align="right" width="8%">4</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td align="center" width="7%">BOS</td><td align="center" width="7%">6</td><td width="70%">Cody Ross doubled to LF (Saltalamacchia scores)</td><td align="right" width="8%">2</td><td align="right" width="8%">5</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td align="center" width="7%">TOR</td><td align="center" width="7%">8</td><td width="70%">Adam Lind solo HR to RF</td><td align="right" width="8%">3</td><td align="right" width="8%">5</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td align="center" width="7%">TOR</td><td align="center" width="7%">9</td><td width="70%">Yunel Escobar singled to CF (Johnson scores)</td><td align="right" width="8%">4</td><td align="right" width="8%">5</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#043EA4" colspan="9"><span style="color:#FFFFFF">Toronto Blue Jays</span></td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="41%">HITTERS</td><td align="right" width="7%">AB</td><td align="right" width="7%">R</td><td align="right" width="7%">H</td><td align="right" width="7%">RBI</td><td align="right" width="7%">BB</td><td align="right" width="7%">SO</td><td align="right" width="7%">HR</td><td align="right" width="10%">AVG</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>BATTING:</u></b><br /><b>2B:</b> Escobar (15), Rasmus (24), Johnson (15)<br /><b>HR:</b> Bautista (26), Lind (13)<br /><b>RBI:</b> Bautista 2 (49), Lind (41), Escobar (25)<br /><b>GIDP:</b> Encarnacion</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#EE1422" colspan="9"><span style="color:#FFFFFF">Boston Red Sox</span></td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="41%">HITTERS</td><td align="right" width="7%">AB</td><td align="right" width="7%">R</td><td align="right" width="7%">H</td><td align="right" width="7%">RBI</td><td align="right" width="7%">BB</td><td align="right" width="7%">SO</td><td align="right" width="7%">HR</td><td align="right" width="10%">AVG</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>BATTING:</u></b><br /><b>2B:</b> Ellsbury (14), Saltalamacchia (16), Ross (10)<br /><b>HR:</b> Gonzalez (24), Ortiz (19)<br /><b>RBI:</b> Ortiz 3 (49), Gonzalez (80), Ross (17)<br /><b>GIDP:</b> Ross</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>BASERUNNING:</u></b><br /><b>SB:</b> Punto (1)<br /><b>CS:</b> Crawford (1)</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#043EA4" colspan="9"><span style="color:#FFFFFF">Toronto Blue Jays</span></td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="41%">PITCHERS</td><td align="right" width="7%">IP</td><td align="right" width="7%">H</td><td align="right" width="7%">R</td><td align="right" width="7%">ER</td><td align="right" width="7%">BB</td><td align="right" width="7%">SO</td><td align="right" width="7%">HR</td><td align="right" width="10%">ERA</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Brandon Morrow (L, 7-9)</td><td align="right">5.2</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right" class="active">3.56</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Luis Perez</td><td align="right">0.1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">4.35</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Darren Oliver</td><td align="right">2.0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">3.83</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>PITCHING:</u></b><br /><b>Pitches-Strikes:</b> Morrow - 82 Pitches / 59 Strikes (72%)</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#EE1422" colspan="9"><span style="color:#FFFFFF">Boston Red Sox</span></td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="41%">PITCHERS</td><td align="right" width="7%">IP</td><td align="right" width="7%">H</td><td align="right" width="7%">R</td><td align="right" width="7%">ER</td><td align="right" width="7%">BB</td><td align="right" width="7%">SO</td><td align="right" width="7%">HR</td><td align="right" width="10%">ERA</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Clay Buchholz</td><td align="right">5.0</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right" class="active">3.13</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Andrew Miller (W, 3-1)</td><td align="right">2.0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">2.37</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Scott Atchison (H, 4)</td><td align="right">1.0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right" class="active">2.08</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Alfredo Aceves (S, 23)</td><td align="right">1.0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">2.48</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>PITCHING:</u></b><br /><b>Pitches-Strikes:</b> Buchholz - 91 Pitches / 64 Strikes (70%)</td></tr></table></body></html>
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