Blue Jays 5, Rays 1: Not At All What I Expected

Early jitters, settling in, etc.

Generally speaking, when David Price takes the mound for the Tampa Bay Rays, he cuts a swath through Blue Jays hitters, and I am left shaking my head. Before last night's game, he was 9-1 against Toronto, and not many of those nine, if memory serves, were squeakers. So when Price opened the game with two strikeouts on six pitches, I had concerns. These concerns grew deeper and more troubling when Brandon Morrow threw twenty-nine pitches in the bottom of the first. The second wasn't awesome, either: forty-eight pitches through two does not auger well, right? But the Blue Jays were the beneficiaries of two costly throwing errors by Price in the third, and the three runs they put up that inning were more than enough for Morrow, who pretty much cruised the rest of the way: seven scoreless innings of two-hit, four-walk, nine-strikeout baseball. This Jekyll and Hyde thing that Brandon Morrow has going this season is killing me, a little, to be perfectly honest with you, but last night he totally settled in after some early jitters, so good for him. 


Finally, here is a picture of an intentional walk, which is not something you see photographed all that often.

They shook.

KS