Florida Marlins rout Tampa Bay Rays 5-3 to lead the series 2-0: MLB Update
The Florida Marlins’ starter, Javier Vazquez had an outstanding day with the ball, as the pitcher tossed seven shutout innings in the Club’s 5-3 second-straight prevail over the Tampa Bay Rays at the Sun Life Stadium, on Saturday, May 21.
Vazquez was so exceptional that he forced his Manager, Edwin Rodriguez, to make some words of praise about the pitcher.
Rodriguez said, "That was a great outing by Javy. He pitched a good game against a good team. It has to be a huge step for Javy, and it's going to be huge for the Marlins. Whenever we get J.J. back, if Javy keeps pitching like that, we're going to have one
of the best rotations in the majors."
Javier tossed seven innings, allowed just three hits and took out seven strikeouts to take his team into 26th win in 2011.
As the Marlins’ Logan Morrison has scored in the bottom of the first innings to take his team into 2-0 early lead, still Javier did not get easy and tossed fast and curveballs to send the opposition under great pressure.
"That first inning was not really on my mind," Javier said, who struggling in his previous games. "What's on my mind is going out and doing a good job, which I wasn't doing."
The Rays’ starter, David Price, after allowing early two runs, struck back and held the Marlins scoreless in his next five innings until the bottom of the sixth when he gave way another run. Hanley Ramirez launched a beautiful homer to the left side of the
field to take the Marlins into 3-0 lead.
Following this, Omar Infante hammered a 373-feet long two-run homer off Price to aggravate his outing and to earn the Marlins 5-0 unassailable lead in the seventh inning. Price departed with five runs on six hits to his account, four strikeouts and one walk
over six and 2/3 innings.
The Marlins were enjoying 5-0 lead when Vazquez left for a designated hitter, but they required five relievers to take the last six batters out. Rodriguez aligned Mike Dunn, but the move went wrong as he right away yielded two runs in the eighth inning.
Rodriguez then replaced Mike with Ryan Webb, but he too remained helpless to hold the Rays’ full swinging bat and yielded another to cut the lead 5-3.
Now Rodriguez was in problems, however he felt relief when relievers Randy Choate and Edward Mujica tossed perfect small less than an inning spells. Choate tossed just five pitches while Mujica threw just seven pitches to secure his third hold of the season.
Leo Nunez tossed a perfect last inning for his 17th save in 2011.
Now Florida has a chance for sweep and would try to grab it with their scheduled right-hand pitcher Jay Buente, who will make his first major-league start on Sunday.
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