Ricky Romero shines as Toronto Blue Jays humiliate St. Louis Cardinals, 5-0: MLB Update
Toronto Blue Jays’ starter, Ricky Romero, had a remarkable day as he tossed nine shut-out innings with an ERA of 2.74 and gave the Jays a 5-0 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium, St. Louis, on June 26.
The Cardinals were outclassed by the Jays’ batters and pitchers throughout the three-game series and lost it 3-0.
During the first inning, Yunel Escobar doubled to deep centre-field, but Jose Bautista was struck out swinging and Juan Rivera grounded out to third base without providing any run. Similarly, the Cardinals’ second baseman, Skip Schumaker, was struck-out
swinging and Matt Holliday grounded out to short-stop.
J.P. Arencibia struck a solo homer (375 feet) towards the left-field in the second inning to get a 1-0 lead. The batters got out from third to fifth inning due to imposing throws of the pitchers. Romero gave only four hits to the Cardinals’ batters and did
not allow any run with five strike-outs. He gave away two walks on 106 pitches.
The Blue Jays’ Manager, John Farrell, had a huge ovation for Romero as he said, “He's the lead guy and guys follow his example. He's on a very good run in terms of total innings pitched but yet you look at total number of pitches thrown he's been very efficient
for the better part of two months.”
The Jays’ batters blasted four runs in the sixth inning to advance their lead 5-0. Corey Patterson hit a grounder towards first base and Adam Lind posted a single run. Edwin Encarnacion and Patterson added two runs when Romero singled off to the right-field.
Arencibia scored the fourth run on the drive of Yunel Escobar to the right-field.
Daniel Descalso walked, but got out without any run for his team. He commented on Romero and said, “Good sinker and he keeps you off-balance with the changeup to righties and the little cutter and curveball to lefties. When you run into him on a good day,
he's got shutdown stuff.”
The last three innings of the game went without any score as the batters got out. The Cardinals’ starter, Kyle McClellan, was expensive as he permitted five runs on eight hits in his 5 1/3 inning pitches.
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