Nothing much to say about this game except that the expected god-like performance of the batting order and the pitching staff unfolded just as the universe apparently intended.
One note of interest: the line-up did not include Troy Tulowitzki at short stop and leading off - but instead the nine hitter, Ben Revere (LF), usually in the nine spot (to turn the line-up over) moved to lead-off; and the Jays most recent acquisition, Cliff Pennington (2B) took the turn-the-line-up-over spot in his second game for the Jays as Tulowitzki had a get-away-day off with Ryan Goins moving from second base over to short stop. That change seemed to have no effect on the team as the Jays go on to win their 11th in a row - the second time this season they have accomplished that feat (June 2-14).
Tomorrow evening it's the just passed for 1st place in the AL East, New York Yankees - in town for three. Interesting to note the NY bloggers are lamenting the Yankees lost offense this week, after the Jays held them to 1 run over 28 innings last weekend.
New Jason_IIATMS: Quick hit: The Yankees’ offense is offensively bad http://t.co/gzqOgQfQDT #BBBA
— Baseball Bloggers A. (@baseballblogs) August 12, 2015
Usually the Yankees break out of slumps against the Jays at home - it will be interesting to see if that pattern holds this weekend - as it would appear this year is not like any other in recent baseball history for the Toronto Blue Jays.
Boxscore
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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9
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-
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R
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H
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E
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LOB
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Oakland Athletics
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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2
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0
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-
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2
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8
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0
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6
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Toronto Blue Jays
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0
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4
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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x
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-
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4
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6
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0
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1
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Scoring:
Bot-2 - Pillar singled to right, Navarro scored. (1-1)
Bot-2 - Goins homered to right, Smoak and Pillar scored. (3-4)
Top-8 - Burns tripled to right center, Semien scored. (1-1)
Top-8 - Canha grounded out to second, Burns scored. (1-2)
Score Card Line-ups:
Oakland Athletics
B Burns CF
M Canha 1B
B Lawrie 2B
D Valencia 3B
J Phegley C
(Top-9) S Vogt PH
B Butler DH
J Reddick RF
C Crisp LF
M Semien SS
J Chavez P (L, 6-12) - 6.0 IP
Pomeranz P - 1.2 IP
Rodriguez P - 0.1 IP
Toronto Blue Jays
B Revere LF
J Donaldson 3B
J Bautista RF
C Colabello DH
D Navarro C
J Smoak 1B
K Pillar CF
R Goins SS
C Pennington 2B
Buehrle P (W, 13-5) - 7.0 IP
Sanchez P (H, 6) - 1.0 IP
Osuna P (S, 12) - 1.0 IP
Stats via espn: espn.go.com/mlb/boxscore?gameId=350813114
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