Jays beat Phillies 10-4 in spring training finale
Posted March 30, 2013 4:31 pm.
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Jose Bautista homered and singled and Edwin Encarnacion doubled twice and drove in two runs Saturday as the Toronto Blue Jays wrapped their spring training schedule with a 10-4 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies.
Toronto starter Josh Johnson picked up his fifth win of the spring before a crowd of 40,811 at Citizens Bank Park as the Blue Jays swept the two-game exhibition series.
The teams finished with identical pre-season records of 16-17-1.
Johnson allowed four hits, including a home run to John Mayberry Jr., and four runs in four innings. He struck out two and walked two as his spring training earned-run increased to 2.70 in 20 innings.
Phillies starter Kyle Kendrick allowed six hits, one walk and five runs in three innings.
Jeremy Jeffress, Esmil Rogers and Sergio Santos each pitched an inning of relief for Toronto, while Marcos Stroman tossed the final two innings to earn the save.
Bautista hit his sixth homer of spring training with two out in the first inning, a shot off the left-field pole 329 feet away on the first pitch to him.
Each team scored four runs in the third.
Henry Blanco started the Blue Jays’ bat-around third with a single to centre. After Emilio Bonifacio popped out to shortstop, Jose Reyes doubled and scored on Melky Cabrera’s single. Bautista then walked and Encarnacion doubled in two runs. Adam Lind singled to right off the glove of second baseman Chase Utley but Colby Rasmus and Maicer Izturis struck out to end the inning.
Johnson who allowed two runs in his previous 16 innings at spring training and entered the game with a 1.13 earned-run average, allowed four runs in the bottom of the third.
Mayberry led off with his second homer of spring training. The Phillies loaded the bases on a walk to Eric Kratz and singles by Ben Revere and Jimmy Rollins. Utley thenhit a sacrifice fly and after Ryan Howard flied out to the warning track in left, Michael Young doubled home two runs.
Bautista led off the fifth against left-hander John Lannan with a single, took third on Encarnacion’s double and scored on Rasmus’ grounder to second.
The Blue Jays tacked on a run in the eighth against left-hander Antonio Bastardo when Bonifacio hit a sacrifice fly after Toronto loaded the bases on a single by Lind, a double by Rasmus and a walk to Blanco.
The Blue Jays added three runs in the ninth against Zach Miner, two on a pinch-hit double by Mike Nickeas and another on a single by Adam Loewen of Surrey, B.C.
