This game featured the debut of Mississauga's Shawn Hill in a Toronto uniform and the 2010 return of Robert 'Bobby' Ray to the hill. Hopefully, this will be the first of many POTD's in the coming days as the 2010 campaign winds down.
Shawn Hill's picture on the right field auxiliary scoreboard before the game.
Lefty Jesse 'Killer' Carlson takes a chair as he settles in to watch the game from the bullpen. He faced just one batter in the game and promptly gave up a two-run double to Mitch Moreland in the fifth that turned out to be the winning runs.
Clean-shaven southpaw Brian Tallet looks on from the bullpen with Carlson looking on. Jason Frasor is in the background.
Hill gets set to take to the hill - get it? How's that for a preview of Comedy Gold - this fall on Batter's Box!! I wondered at first if the S.Hill name plate was necessary but he does look a bit like Aaron, doesn't he?
Hill looks in for the sign from catcher John Buck. He lasted 5 1/3 innings and surrendered four runs (three earned) on eight hits and a walk. The former Montreal Expo struck out two and got eight ground ball outs, including two double plays. He managed to escape a bases loaded, nobody out jam in the second but his luck ran out the fourth and fifth innings. Had Buck held on to the ball at the plate after a great throw by DeWayne Wise, Vladimir Guerrero would not have scored the Rangers second run. To compound matters, Guerrero would not have been on third to begin with had Travis Snider not booted the ball in left after a Nelson Cruz single scored the first Texas run. Snider's misplay allowed Guerrero and Cruz to move up another 90 feet.
Robert Ray relieves Carlson in the fifth inning.
Ray did his job to keep the Jays within striking distance by allowing just one hit and an intentional walk over 2 2/3 innings. Lefty Scott Downs pitched a squeaky-clean ninth.
JaysVision was able to put up this graphic a couple of times in this game. First, it was Lyle Overbay as he who clubbed his 19th homer of the season off Texas starter Colby Lewis to put the Jays on the board in the seventh. The second time, it was.........
.......the major league's home run king, Jose Bautista. He drilled his 44th homer of the year off Rangers reliever Darren O'Day in the eighth to draw the Jays within two runs.
However, the Jays could get no closer as Rangers closer Neftali Feliz lit up the radar gun with a 99 MPH heater to preserve the Rangers 4-2 victory as they managed a split of the four game series.
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