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Quick Recap for March 11 Spring Game: Jays Beat Braves

By Tom Dakers
No pictures yet from today's game, here is Aaron Laffey pitching yesterday. Click on the picture to see more shots from spring training. (Photo by Al Messerschmidt/Getty Images)
No pictures yet from today's game, here is Aaron Laffey pitching yesterday. Click on the picture to see more shots from spring training. (Photo by Al Messerschmidt/Getty Images)
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Braves 5 Blue Jays 9

The game at the Braves park is rained out. They only got into the second inning with the Jays up 2-0 on a Mathis home run. Kyle Drabek pitched a good inning, 1 k, 2 ground outs.

The Jays win makes them 7-2 on the spring.

Here is a note on Escobar leaving early, Arden Zwelling thwipped:

Escobar exit after 2 AB was because he played 7 inn. yesterday. No injury or discipline. He'll start Mon

No controversy, as much as the media might want there to be.

The game at Dunedin was a good one for our hitters and most of our pitchers:

  • Escobar: 1 for 2, double. .235. And an error.
  • Hechavarria: 0 for 3, .286.
  • Francisco: 0 for 2, walk. .250.
  • Bautista: 1 for 3, double. .400.
  • Lind: 1 for 3. .375. Quietly having a nice spring.
  • Lawrie: 3 for 3, double, RBI. .579. Also got caught in a rundown but got back to second safe.
  • Vizquel: 1 for 2, double, RBI. .500.
  • Johnson: 0 for 2, walk. .200.
  • Jon Diaz: 1 for 1, triple. .400.
  • Arencibia: 1 for 3, RBI, double. .125.
  • Rasmus: 0 for 2, sac fly, RBI. .143.
  • Thames: 1 for 3, RBI. .294. Made a nice play in the field too.

Most of our pitchers had a good day too, except for Oliver and Frasor:

  • Romero: 3 innings, 1 hit, 4 k, 4 ground outs, one line out right at him.
  • Jenkins: 3 innings, 2 hits, 1 earned, 4 k. 3 ground outs, no fly outs. Ashby said he wasn't hitting his spots, early, but he was getting the results.
  • Oliver: 1 inning, 1 hit, home run, 1 earned.
  • Frasor: 1 inning, 4 hits, 3 earned, 1 walk, 2 k.
  • Hoey: 1 inning, 1 k.

I think we did something we've never done before, we had an overflow thread for a spring game. We had over 800 comments about a game that wasn't on TV. Maybe Sportsnet could take note of all the interest in the spring games and show us a few more of them? Maybe. Anyway, the GameThread was great fun, thanks to everyone that joined in. I think we are ready for baseball.

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