Round 1 - 'Jays sweep A's in 3 straight

Oakland 0 Toronto 8
Anderson (L) vs Romero(W)

Toronto rocked starter Anderson for 4 runs in the first inning. Rajai Davis was 1st up, walked then stole 2nd and 3rd. Yunel Escobar and Jose Bautista walked. Canadian born Brett Lawrie double in all three. He scored on a Arencibia single. In the 6th Anderson was pulled and Carignan came in and the Blue Jays rocked another 4 runs off him and Breslow before Zeigler came in to end the inning. Game MVP Ricky Romero pitched a strong game going the distance allowing 5 hits and 5 walks.

 

Oakland 2 Toronto 3
Cahill(L) Morrow(W)

Toronto opened this close game with a run in the 1st. Rajai Davis singled, Adam Lind sacrifice bunted and Jose Bautista singled him home. They added another in the 5th as Davis tripled scoring J.P. Arencibia and 6th. Cahill was removed during the 6th. Oakland made a game of it scoring in the 8th with a Weeks single, he stole 2nd and advanced to 3rd on a wild pitch. Pennington grounded out scoring Weeks. In the 9th Willingham homered and Oakland threatened to tie it up, With none out. Frank Fransisco came in to relieve Game MVP Brandon Morrow and sat down the next 3 batters for the save.

Toronto 9 Oakland 1
Cecil (W) Gonzalez (L)

Rajai Davis started the game off with an in the park home run. The cool thing was when Davis reached 3rd base the base running coach came up and asked if I wanted to send him home. In the 2nd Toronto added another 3 with a leadoff walk to Juan Rivera and Kelly Johnson homered. Brett Lawrie walked was sacrificed to 2nd and David Cooper brought him home. Oakland's pitching settled down until the 8th when Toronto added 1 more and in the 9th they added 4 more. Game MVP Brent Cecil got the 1st out in the ninth but ran into trouble as Oakland started getting guys on base and scored a run. Then Cecil's arm gave out and Octavio Dotel came in to finish the game off.

 

A special welcome to Chris Hughes who coached Oakland for the series and playing in his first tourney with us.

 

--submitted by Robert Chisholm--