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Regular Season Game #25: Texas Rangers @ Toronto Blue Jays

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1:07 PM ET May 2nd, 2012 \| Rogers Center, Toronto, ON
5	F	3
Texas Rangers (14-11)		Toronto Blue Jays (14-11)

Romero Looks Good In Debut, Jays Fall To Rangers

Jays Defense Falters In Romero's Return To Bigs

TORONTO -- Ricky Romero (0-1) seems to just not be able to get a win. After losing his spot in the rotation to recently dealt left hander J.A. Happ, Romero returned to the Big Leagues trying to regain his former self.

It all went well until a Brett Lawrie in the top of the fourth inning that extended the inning for the Texas Rangers. Just three pitches later, Romero found himself watching Ian Kinsler reach second base safely on a double to the left-center field gap. After regaining his focus, Romero went on to strikeout the next batter to finish the inning.

All of the Blue Jays� (14-11) offense came courtesy of the home run as Melky Cabrera hit line drive over the right field wall. Another blow came off the bat of Edwin Encarnacion just one batter later as he took Rangers starter Alexi Ogando deep into the seat in left field to cut the deficit in half and make it a two run game. Jose Bautista hit his team leading seventh home run of the season in the bottom of the sixth inning off of veteran pitcher Derek Lowe to make it a one run game.

Everything stayed the same until all of the Blue Jays� hopes were crushed when Elvis Andrus singled to left field to plate another run to expand the Rangers� lead to two.

�I�d say that RickyRo [Romero] pitched a pretty solid game for us today. A couple of defensive blunders with the Brett�s [Lawrie] error and the passed ball from Thole really cost us a couple of runs today. Without those two mistakes, I�d say we won that game� said Blue Jays manager John Gibbons.

The Blue Jays bullpen pitched yet another solid game with the only mistake being the Andrus single in the 9th inning. �I feel that with all the great things that the �pen has done for us this season, they deserve to give up a few runs every now and then. Andrus got a good hit and there's nothing you can do about it, it's the game of baseball.� said Gibbons.

The Blue Jays begin a ten game road trip with the first game tomorrow night with Blue Jays ace R.A. Dickey (0-2, 5.16) going up against Angels ace Jered Weaver (2-1, 4.78).

Texas Rangers at Toronto Blue Jays
May 2, 2012	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Texas (13-11)	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	5	9	0
Toronto (14-10)	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	3	5	1
W: Derek Lowe (3-2) L: Ricky Romero (0-1) S: Joe Nathan (6)

Scoring Summary
SCORING DETAILS			TEX	TOR
	Top 2nd	Nelson Cruz grounded out to 3B (5-3). 1 RBI.	1	0
	Top 4th	Mitch Moreland grounded out to SS (6-3). 1 RBI.	2	0
	Top 4th	Ian Kinsler doubled to left-center. 2 RBI.	4	0
	Bot 4th	Melky Cabrera homers to right. 1 RBI.	4	1
	Bot 4th	Edwin Encarnacion homers to left. 1 RBI.	4	2
	Bot 6th	Jose Bautista homers to right. 1 RBI.	4	3
	Top 9th	Elvis Andrus singled to left. 1 RBI.	5	3

Texas Rangers
HITTERS	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	AVG
BATTING 2B: I. Kinsler (8), M. Moreland 2 (6) RBI: I. Kinsler 2 (15), E. Andrus (12), N. Cruz (18), M. Moreland (16)
BASERUNNING SB: I. Kinsler (5), C. Gentry (9)

Texas Rangers
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
A. Ogando	4.0	2	2	2	1	0	3.45
D. Lowe (W, 3-2)	2.0	2	1	1	0	0	3.09
R. Ross (H, 3)	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	3.27
J. Soria (H, 2)	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	7.45
J. Nathan (S, 6)	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	1.29

Toronto Blue Jays
HITTERS	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	AVG
BATTING 2B: M. Izturis (1) HR: E. Encarnacion (4), M. Cabrera (5), J. Bautista (7) RBI: E. Encarnacion (10), M. Cabrera (11), J. Bautista (15)
FIELDING E: B. Lawrie (2) PB: J. Thole

Toronto Blue Jays
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
R. Romero (L,0-1)	6.1	4	4	1	1	2	1.42
S. Delabar	1.2	1	0	0	1	2	0.00
E. Rogers	0.2	3	1	1	0	2	3.68
M. Storey	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0.00