Blue Jays 6, Mariners 5 (F/14): Well I'll be.

Walkin' off.

It is perhaps worth noting that the two players I explicitly slandered last night out of sheer frustration with this endless game -- Rajai Davis, who pinch ran for Escobar in the ninth, and John McDonald, who then came in to play short for extras -- are the two who figured in the winning run. A couple innings into extras, I was very much of the opinion that there was no way the Blue Jays were ever going to score, unless Bautista or Lind did it entirely on their own, because of the deadbeats in front of them in the order. How wrong I was! Davis singled, stole a couple, and Johnny Mac (as he is known to all but me) lifted a sac fly to win it. 


Lots of ups and downs and near misses in this one, but I would like to extend a special "lol" in the direction of Mike Carp (possible nickname: "Hiroshima") who got picked off at second after a leadoff double in the eleventh as Chone Figgins tried to bunt him over to third. I would also like to salute the Blue Jays bullpen. After Brett Cecil allowed five runs through his seven innings, Camp, Rauch, Frasor, "Don't Ask" Dotel, Rzepcynski, and Janssen who took it the rest of the actually-kind-of-long way. The Blue Jays have used more relief pitching than any other team in the American League this year, which is obviously horrible.  


KS