Bullpen blows big lead in Seattle

The bullpen was automatic through 9 regular season games, in game 10, the trigger seemed to be stuck.

The Blue Jays bullpen gave up an opportunity to go 6-4 on the season as they blew a 7 run lead built up on Felix Hernandez to a Seattle team whom hadn't won in their previous 7 games.

“A tough night on the mound,” Blue Jays manager John Farrell said. “Anytime you walk 11 guys and still be in the game. Things obviously had to go right for us in the first part of it, but we simply lost the strike zone, to say the least.”

In the eighth, a walk and two singles chased Toronto reliever David Purcey and loaded the bases. Octavio Dotel walked in two runs and Mark Rzepczynski walked in another before allowing a single to Justin Smoak that scored two and pulled Seattle within one.

“It was a tough inning,” Rzepczynski said. “For me personally, overall it was a tough inning. Camp should never have gotten out there, we should have got those guys out. It was one of those innings that every thing that could go wrong did go wrong.”


Seattle ended up winning with a walk-off single off Shawn Camp, 8-7.