Tampa Bay 9, Toronto 1
When: 7:10 PM ET, Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Where: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida
Temperature:
Indoors
Umpires:
Home -
Adrian Johnson, 1B -
Cory Blaser, 2B -
Lance Barksdale, 3B -
Gary Cederstrom
Attendance:
11803
By SportsDirect Inc.
Robinson Chirinos hit his first career home run and James Shields rebounded from a rough outing by pitching into the eighth inning as the Tampa Bay Rays trounced the visiting Toronto Blue Jays 9-1 on Wednesday.
With two runners on base and Tampa leading 5-1, Chirinos - a 27-year-old rookie catcher - deposited an offering from Carlos Villanueva (6-3) over the left-field wall as part of a four-run third inning. Villanueva lasted only one more batter and was torched for eight runs on nine hits in his shortest start of the season.
Chirinos finished with a career-high four RBIs as the Rays pounded out 12 hits against four Toronto pitchers.
Shields (10-9) limited Toronto to one run on three hits over 7 1/3 innings. It marked a vast improvement from his previous start, when he was roughed up for a season-high 10 runs in a one-sided loss to Oakland.
Ben Zobrist and Casey Kotchman also took Villanueva deep while Matt Joyce went 3-for-4 with two runs scored and an RBI.
J.P. Arencibia hit his 18th home run - and sixth in the past 10 games - for the Jays.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Toronto |
|
Tampa Bay |
|
Carlos Villanueva |
Player |
James Shields |
|
Loss |
W/L |
Win |
|
2.2 |
IP |
7.1 |
|
1 |
Strikeouts |
6 |
|
9 |
Hits |
3 |
|
27.00 |
ERA |
1.23 |
Hitting
| Toronto |
|
Tampa Bay |
|
J.P. Arencibia | Player |
Matt Joyce |
|
1 |
Hits |
3 |
|
1 |
RBI |
1 |
|
1 |
HR |
0 |
|
4 |
TB |
4 |
|
.333 |
Avg |
.750 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Toronto
|
5 |
1 |
9 |
.156 |
11 |
8 |
1 |
3 |
0 |
1 |
| Tampa Bay
|
12 |
3 |
24 |
.353 |
15 |
9 |
9 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
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