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Bald Man's Jays - May 10, 2012

Posted on May 15, 2012 at 09:38 PM.

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The Jays took game one of the 4-game series with the Twins behind another strong outing by Henderson Alvarez. Finally a strong outing paid for the young pitcher as Alvarez notched his first victory of the season with a 3-2 win over Minnesota.

Alvarez's only mistake game in the bottom of the 7th. After a lead off single by Morneau, Alvarez grooved a fastball and Josh Willingham made him pay with a two-run shot to left field. But that was the only runs the Jays would allow.

Jose Bautista hit his 10th homer of the season in the top half of the 1st to give the Jays the lead.

Casey Janssen ran into some trouble in the 8th when he let the lead off man reach base on a pinch hit single by Parmalee. Janssen then got the next two outs but Parmalee had advanced to 3rd. In comes Darren Oliver to face Joe Mauer and he shut the door in convincing fashion by striking out the Twin catcher on four pitches to end the threat. Sergio Santos pitched the 9th for his 10th save of the season.

Game 2 (sim day), the Jays will send Kyle Drabek (2-1, 6.52) to the hill to face Francisco Liriano (1-4, 6.12). Saturday, May 12th will see rookie Drew Hutchison (0-2, 6.04) against Nick Blackburn (1-4, 6.12). The series finale will pit Ricky Romero (4-2, 5.40) against Scott Baker (0-4, 4.93).

The Jays are now 15-17 on the season and 6.5 games behind the Yankees and sitting in 3rd in the AL East

Toronto Blue Jays at Minnesota Twins
May 10, 2012	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Toronto (15-17)	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	3	5	0
Minnesota (8-24)	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	6	1
W: Henderson Alvarez (1-3) L: Jason Marquis (2-3) S: Sergio Santos (10)

Toronto Blue Jays
HITTERS	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	HR	AVG
Escobar, SS	4	0	0	0	0	0		.208
Johnson, 2B	4	1	1	0	0	1		.243
Bautista, RF	4	1	1	1	0	2		.276
Encarnacion, 1B	4	0	1	1	0	0		.283
Thames, LF	4	0	0	0	0	0		.250
Lawrie, 3B	3	1	1	0	0	1		.167
Francisco, DH	2	0	0	0	0	2		.200
Rasmus, CF	3	0	0	0	0	1		.232
Arencibia, C	3	0	1	1	0	0		.238
TEAM TOTALS	31	3	5	3	0	7
BATTING: 2B: Lawrie (4) HR: Bautista (10) RBI: Bautista (20), Encarnacion (23), Arencibia (9) SAC: Francisco

Minnesota Twins
HITTERS	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	HR	AVG
Carroll, SS	4	0	1	0	0	1		.294
Span, CF	4	0	1	0	0	0		.303
Mauer, C	5	0	1	0	0	3		.304
Morneau, 1B	4	1	1	0	0	1		.198
Willingham, LF	4	1	1	2	0	1		.241
Doumit, DH	4	0	0	0	0	2		.240
Valencia, 3B	3	0	0	0	0	2		.273
Revere, RF	3	0	0	0	0	0		.196
Casilla, 2B	2	0	0	0	0	1		.262
Parmalee, PH	1	0	1	0	0	0		.214
Nishioka, 2B	0	0	0	0	0	0		.237
TEAM TOTALS	33	2	6	2	0	11
BATTING: HR: Willingham (6) RBI: Willingham 2 (19)
FIELDING: E: Marquis (1)

Toronto Blue Jays
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Alvarez (W, 1-3)	6.0	5	2	2	0	8		6.16
Perez (H, 2)	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		6.94
Janssen (H, 5)	0.2	1	0	0	0	0		5.25
Oliver (H, 4)	0.1	0	0	0	0	1		2.45
Santos (S, 10)	1.0	0	0	0	0	2		0.79
TEAM TOTALS	9.0	6	2	2	0	11