Days like today, you make a mistake and they foul off or take it. There are games where every time you make a mistake, you pay for it. I do my stuff in between starts and I don’t like to ask too many questions. Plenty of times I throw a cutter over the middle of the plate and they take it. “I can’t tell you why but I’m just having good outings, making good pitches and when I don’t make good pitches I’m getting away with them. He came home on a groundball out by Pablo Sandoval. With the score 9-0 in the seventh, Boston finally broke the shutout after Hanley Ramirez stroked a leadoff triple to right-centre. He scattered four hits over seven innings, didn’t walk a batter and never allowed more than one baserunner in an inning. Meanwhile, Buehrle was in his glory, dealing from his rocking chair, filling up the strike zone. “I’ve got to believe he deserves it, especially after today.” Gibbons said Smoak has earned a chance to play more often. You just pass the torch to the next guy and go from there.” You just keep working and hope to get in more often. I’ve come off the bench pinch-hitting and when I’ve gotten in there, I’ve done well. When you get your opportunity, try to make the most of it. “It’s a lot of work behind the scenes, getting ready during the game, being prepared for any situation. 261 average, and now seven home runs and 25 RBI. Over the course of the season, for all the work he has gotten, he has been fairly productive, with a. In the last two weeks, Smoak made only a couple of starts and had only 16 at-bats, with one hit to show for it. Second at-bat I was ready for the heater first pitch and squared that up.” I got a changeup first at-bat and was able to get it pretty well. “It’s been a while since I’ve been in there. “I’m just trying to be on time,” said Smoak, who has had difficulty getting at-bats. Melky Cabrera did it last year and Robbie Alomar did it twice during his time with the Jays. Smoak became the sixth Blue Jay to homer from both sides of the plate in the same game. With Porcello out of the game and lefty Robbie Ross in, Smoak stepped up to the plate from the right side with one out and slammed his seventh homer, this one into the fourth level boxes above the Level of Excellence. It wasn’t like he was flat-out struggling.” “I knew (Bautista) wasn’t getting a lot of hits but his swing was good, he was hitting a lot of balls hard but just coming up empty. “I didn’t realize the numbers,” said Gibbons. One out later, Bautista made it 7-0 with his 16th homer, snapping an 0-for-25 stretch. In the second inning, Reyes delivered another single. With the crowd still buzzing, Porcello hit Russell Martin with a curveball and then Smoak, batting left-handed, unloaded his sixth homer of the year, a laser beam into the second deck in right. An out later, Edwin Encarnacion put the crowd into an even better mood, belting his 16th home run to get the celebration started. The national holiday crowd of 45,392, already in a festive state of mind, didn’t have to wait long to roar their approval as Reyes singled to lead off the bottom of the first, followed by a Josh Donaldson bunt single. The Blue Jays made short work of Porcello, slamming him for five runs in the first and two more in the second before the right-hander was mercifully dismissed from the proceedings, destined for his seventh loss in his past seven decisions. It’s hard not to when you see everybody there and hear them cheering for you. I tell myself not to get worked up because then I try to throw harder than what I should. There’s definitely a lot more adrenaline going on a day like today. “I went down to the bullpen, threw maybe 10 pitches and I looked back at Pete and said I was ready. Staked to a huge lead and buoyed by the atmosphere in the building, Mark Buehrle breezed to his ninth win of the season, allowing a run on just four hits over seven innings, lowering his ERA to 3.64 in the process. Shortstop Jose Reyes went 4-for-5 and scored four times. Switch-hitting first baseman Justin Smoak flexed his muscles from both sides of the plate, hitting his sixth and seventh homers of the season, while Edwin Encarnacion, Jose Bautista and Josh Donaldson also went deep. ![]() How many home runs? Five? Big outburst on a perfect day. “We’ve been shut down pretty good the last few days. “That’s just what we needed,” said manager John Gibbons. ![]() With a sellout crowd on hand, the Blue Jays pounded out 16 hits, including five home runs, to annihilate Rick Porcello and the Boston Red Sox 11-2 Wednesday. A big Canada Day mob came to the Rogers Centre looking for a party and the Blue Jays delivered all the ingredients, including the fireworks.
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