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Seven Years Ago Today
The Jays and Rangers played 18 innings and best of all, the good guys win.
For a while it seemed like it was the game that would never end.
We scored 3 runs in the third inning. Edwin Encarnacion singled, Adam Lind walked, and Colby Rasmus hit a line drive to right-center field. Edwin scored easy. Lind? It would have been a closeish play, but Jurickson Profar, Rangers second baseman’s relay throw went wide of home and Colby scored.
We put up zeros for the next 14 innings.
Mark Buehrle had a great start. A month earlier, he allowed a 7 run inning against the Rays. His season turned around after that inning. In his 5 starts between that game and this game, Mark had a 3.38 ERA.
On this day, he went 7 innings, allowed 4 hits, 1 earned (a Jeff Baker home run in the seventh), 2 walks, and 3 strikeouts, throwing 92 pitches. He should have had a win.
I don’t remember much about Baker, but had a pretty good season with the bat, hitting .279/.360/.545 with 11 home runs. He played for 11 seasons, playing in over 100 games just once, 104 games with the Rockies in 2008.
Buehrle should have picked up a win here, but after Steve Delabar pitched a scoreless eight, Casey Jansen gave up 2 runs in the ninth. It was Casey’s first blown save of the single. Casey finished the season with 34 saves and 2 blown, so we can give him a pass.
After that, our bullpen pitched 9 scoreless innings. From the recap:
Dustin McGowan brought into a tie game in extras for his first appearance since his 5 games in 2011. Dustin walked the first batter, then got a double play ball, but Mark DeRosa booted it. A hit batter later and the bases were loaded. Dustin got a strikeout, then
Juan Perez came in and gave up a medium fly to right. Fortunately, Jose Bautista has a great arm and made a perfect throw to cut down the runner at the plate. A great play. Juan pitched 2.0 innings, 1 hit, 1 walk, 1 k.
Neil Wagner got 2 outs to end the 12th.
Brett Cecil had a clean 12th, getting 1 k.
Brad Lincoln pitched 4 very good innings, 1 hit, 1 walk, 2 hit batters, 3 k. I figured Gibby was leaving him in till the game ended or his arm fell off. But, instead..
Aaron Loup gave up a hit, hit a batter but got out of the 18th without a run scoring.
Brad Lincoln was terrific. For his 4 excellent innings of work he was sent to the minors the next day. It doesn’t seem fair.
On the Rangers’ side:
- Yu Darvish threw 7 innings, giving up the 2 earned and 1 unearned run. We had 6 hits against him.
- Neal Cotts went 1.1 allowing just a hit.
- Jason Frasor, former Blue Jays reliever, went 1 inning, allowing a hit.
- Robbie Ross: 1.2, with a hit and a walk.
- Ross Wolf threw 6.2 innings. He was getting himself in and out of trouble almost every inning. And then came the 18th:
After Maicer Izturis lined out, Emilio Bonifacio singled (he had 57 hits in his 97 games with the Jays, 47 singles). After Josh Thole popped out (Thole, famously, hit .175/.256/.242 that year, but he pinch-hit for Mark DeRosa in the 16th. Unless there was an injury, it was a dumb move, even though Josh was a lefty batter), Wolf threw wide of first on a pickoff attempt, Bonifacio went to third. Rajai Davis singled him home for the walk-of win.
From the recap:
Jays of the Day: Lincoln (.570 WPA), Perez (.499), Buehrle (.297), Cecil (.143), Loup (.143 and the win), Wagner (.142), Davis (.223) and Rasmus (.141).
Suckage: Janssen (-.280), Izturis (-.367), DeRosa (-.183, plus the error), Thole (-.132)
Three guys had the number but I’m not giving them Suckage Awards: McGowan (-.213) but that was because of DeRosa’s error. Bautista (-.155) but the throw from right to save the game saves him. Bonifacio (-.147) but he drew the wild pickoff throw and scored the winning run.
Batting | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | PA | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | Pit | Str | WPA | Details |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Elvis Andrus SS | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 | .254 | .307 | .306 | .614 | 42 | 25 | 0.012 | SB,SF,GDP |
Jurickson Profar 2B | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 9 | .276 | .328 | .397 | .725 | 33 | 23 | -0.163 | SH |
Lance Berkman 1B | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 8 | .266 | .373 | .391 | .764 | 27 | 12 | -0.159 | |
Adrian Beltre DH | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | .304 | .345 | .529 | .874 | 27 | 19 | -0.233 | |
Nelson Cruz RF | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | .257 | .318 | .491 | .809 | 33 | 15 | -0.137 | HBP,IW |
Jeff Baker LF-3B | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | .329 | .400 | .697 | 1.097 | 27 | 18 | -0.104 | HR,2B,HBP |
Geovany Soto C | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .197 | .305 | .324 | .629 | 13 | 7 | -0.079 | |
Leonys Martin PH-CF | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | .262 | .319 | .397 | .716 | 19 | 12 | -0.403 | HBP |
Craig Gentry CF | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .223 | .316 | .330 | .646 | 9 | 8 | -0.011 | 2B |
David Murphy PH-LF | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | .217 | .266 | .379 | .645 | 23 | 15 | -0.066 | 2B,CS |
Leury Garcia 3B | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .191 | .208 | .234 | .442 | 7 | 4 | -0.069 | |
A.J. Pierzynski PH-C | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .301 | .333 | .438 | .772 | 8 | 6 | 0.120 | HBP |
Team Totals | 60 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 74 | .167 | .301 | .267 | .568 | 268 | 164 | -1.292 |
Batting | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | PA | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | Pit | Str | WPA | Details |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Melky Cabrera LF | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .283 | .324 | .381 | .706 | 11 | 8 | -0.082 | |
Rajai Davis LF | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .287 | .326 | .391 | .717 | 14 | 10 | 0.234 | SB |
Jose Bautista RF | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | .258 | .360 | .488 | .848 | 32 | 20 | -0.146 | |
Edwin Encarnacion 1B-3B | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 8 | .263 | .342 | .513 | .854 | 30 | 18 | -0.073 | |
Adam Lind DH | 7 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 8 | .342 | .423 | .523 | .946 | 28 | 19 | -0.079 | GDP |
J.P. Arencibia C | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | .220 | .240 | .436 | .676 | 29 | 22 | 0.062 | |
Colby Rasmus CF | 8 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | .254 | .313 | .444 | .756 | 30 | 21 | 0.157 | 3B |
Maicer Izturis 3B-SS | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | .202 | .240 | .288 | .528 | 25 | 13 | -0.360 | |
Emilio Bonifacio 2B | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | .214 | .240 | .327 | .567 | 31 | 24 | -0.145 | SB |
Munenori Kawasaki SS | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .214 | .331 | .274 | .604 | 8 | 7 | -0.057 | |
Mark DeRosa PH-3B | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | .250 | .333 | .475 | .808 | 17 | 10 | -0.175 | |
Josh Thole PH-1B | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 5 | 4 | -0.127 | |
Team Totals | 68 | 4 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 73 | .235 | .288 | .265 | .552 | 260 | 176 | -0.791 |
Pitching | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR | ERA | BF | Pit | Str | WPA |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Yu Darvish | 7 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 2.75 | 30 | 111 | 73 | -0.083 |
Neal Cotts | 1.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.90 | 5 | 16 | 13 | 0.071 |
Jason Frasor | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3.31 | 4 | 19 | 11 | 0.136 |
Robbie Ross | 1.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1.59 | 7 | 32 | 20 | 0.215 |
Ross Wolf, L (1-1) | 6.2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.72 | 27 | 82 | 59 | 0.453 |
Team Totals | 17.2 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 1.02 | 73 | 260 | 176 | 0.792 |
Pitching | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR | ERA | BF | Pit | Str | WPA |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mark Buehrle | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5.06 | 27 | 92 | 57 | 0.284 |
Steve Delabar, H (2) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.97 | 5 | 22 | 12 | 0.074 |
Casey Janssen, BS (1) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2.75 | 6 | 24 | 15 | -0.291 |
Dustin McGowan | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 4 | 17 | 9 | -0.216 |
Juan Perez | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 6 | 29 | 19 | 0.488 |
Neil Wagner | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 3 | 17 | 8 | 0.137 |
Brett Cecil | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.67 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 0.136 |
Brad Lincoln | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4.15 | 16 | 48 | 30 | 0.545 |
Aaron Loup, W (3-3) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.14 | 4 | 11 | 7 | 0.136 |
Team Totals | 18 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 1.50 | 74 | 268 | 164 | 1.293 |