Line Score - Final
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CWS | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 1 |
| TOR | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 14 | 15 | 2 |
Box Score
| TOR | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | BA | CWS | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | BA | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LF | Granderson | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .278 | 2B | Moncada | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .176 | |
| 3B | Donaldson | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | .238 | RF | García, A | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .316 | |
| 1B | Smoak | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .364 | 1B | Abreu | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .438 | |
| 2B | Solarte | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .250 | DH | Davidson | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .250 | |
| RF | Grichuk | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .105 | C | Castillo | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .176 | |
| DH | Morales, K | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | .100 | SS | Anderson, Ti | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .375 | |
| CF | Pillar | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .381 | CF | Engel | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .231 | |
| C | Maile | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | .375 | 3B | Saladino | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | |
| SS | Díaz | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .313 | 3B | Sánchez | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .273 | |
| SS | Ngoepe | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .143 | LF | Delmonico | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | .111 |
| TOR | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | P-S | ERA | CWS | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | P-S | ERA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Happ, J | 5.1 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 93-60 | 5.40 | González, M | 5.0 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 89-58 | 9.00 | |
| Barnes, D | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13-8 | 3.00 | Santiago, H | 2.1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 45-26 | 11.57 | |
| Axford | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 21-9 | 3.86 | Infante | 0.1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 21-11 | 33.75 | |
| Clippard | 1.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 17-11 | 4.50 | Minaya | 0.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12-6 | 18.00 | |
| Loup | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 20-13 | 0.00 |
I tried to condense tonight’s recap, but the Jays just kept scoring. Here’s a live look at Luke Maile.
J.A. Happ wasn’t particularly sharp tonight. The results were mixed, and the process wasn’t especially convincing. His final line reads 5.1 IP, 4 ER, 7 H, 9 K, 1 BB. Happ worked himself hard early on. The White Sox had a couple of hits, a couple of walks, and three strikeouts in the 2nd. That forced Happ’s pitch count up to 47. He settled down after that, as he racked up a few more strikeouts and only a few more baserunners. The issue was that two of the hits were home runs - one from Tim Anderson and the other from Avisail Garcia. The strikeouts have been a nice surprise, but between the Ks, Happ has been pitching to lots of contact. It would do the bullpen a world of good if he could pitch a little deeper into his starts (he’s at 10.0 innings now through his first two games).
A quick word on the decision to pull Happ in the 6th. John Gibbons has managed situations like tonight’s basically the exact same way throughout his tenure. Whenever he has a starter who seems to be at the end of the road, Gibbons will send him back out to start an inning, and yank him once the opponent gets a base runner. Like clockwork, Gibbons did the same tonight after Anderson hit a single. I assume the thinking has to be to get as many outs as possible from the starter. I guess it’s just a philosophical difference on my part, because I don’t agree with it. For me, I would rather they go straight to the bullpen to start innings like that, rather than force a reliever to come in with a runner already on. It strikes me a tactic that leads to unnecessarily stressful innings for the bullpen, more often than not (of course, I haven’t actually checked to see how effective it has been at getting an extra innings from the starter). Maybe Gibby’s right.
Runs, runs, runs, runs ,runs, runs, runs.
The offence kept doing good things tonight, and in a change of pace, they got to the White Sox relatively early. Maile led off the 3rd with a double(!), before Diaz hit a two-run homer. A couple of batters later, Smoak walked, Solarte hit a single (and Smoak advanced to 3rd), and Smoak eventually scored on an error by Anderson. They manufactured a run!
The manufacturing continued in the 4th, as Pillar got aboard with a single (we seem to have had lots of leadoff men reach so far, no?), and Diaz hit an RBI double. I’m not sure why he tried to advance to 3rd, but the hit itself was valuable. Those exit velocities are paying off. Diaz was stellar tonight (unfortunately, he left in the 7th due to back spasms). Granderson followed Diaz with a triple, before Donaldson launched a two-run bomb. Donaldson followed that with an RBI single in the 6th. The single had an exit velocity of 115.5 MPH, while the homer was clocked at 94.7 MPH. Baseball’s wild. Donaldson looks healthy.
Also, Ngoepe walked tonight in the 8th! He got on base! That was a sign of things to come. Granderson then hit a double, the White Sox missed the cutoff man, and Ngoepe scored standing up. Donaldson followed with another walk, before Smoak picked up an RBI with a ground rule double. The White Sox gave Solarte an intentional walk to get to Grichuk, who hit a sac fly to score Donaldson. Morales followed that with an RBI single. It was all hands on deck. And it didn’t stop there - Pillar hit an RBI double to make it 12 on the night. Maile followed with [his second double of the night](!!)(https://streamable.com/gk51o), driving in two runs. He’s on fire.
The Jays were criticized in some quarters for being too reliant on home runs through the first five games (a fair critique of a small sample). Tonight, they had a couple of home runs, 10 extra base hits, they threw in some walks, and had some smart baserunning. It was multi-faceted onslaught, and I loved it.
As mentioned above, Barnes came in to clean up the 6th, with one on and one out. Anderson was standing at 1st, and eventually stole his way to 3rd. Adam Engel scored drive him home on a grounder. Barnes got out of the inning by striking out Nicky Delmonico.
In other news, Axford has yet to have a really strong inning as a Blue Jay. The Pride of Port Dover looked shaky again tonight, but still managed to escape the 7th unscathed. He started by walking Yoan Moncada, before Garcia grounded out. Jose Abreu then hit a single, with an asset to Grichuk, who dropped the catch. Moncada advanced to 3rd on the play. The next batter, Matt Davidson, hit a comebacker, and Axford threw Moncada out at the plate. That was the third out at the plate for the Jays in six games. Welington Castillo grounded out to end the frame. It was an eventful inning for Axford, who is still fighting to find the strike zone.
Clippard worked the 8th. Anderson struck out, Engel flied out… and Yolmer Sanchez hit a solo shot. The long ball was a problem tonight for the staff tonight. Clippard bounced back by striking out Delmonico. He has allowed two home runs in 4.0 innings, but has otherwise been fine to start the year. Loup got to pitch the 9th, after the Jays demolished the White Sox in the 8th. Moncada struck out to start the inning. Garcia then reached 2nd on a throwing error by Loup. I’m going to spare you anymore details at this point. Loup finished the game for the Jays.
Sanchez starts tomorrow against Carson Fulmer. That should be fun.
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