Toronto Blue Jays vs Tampa Bay Rays
September 20, 2009 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 20, 2009 at Tropicana Field. The Tampa Bay Rays defeated the Toronto Blue Jays and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

"The box score is the catechism of baseball, ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye." - Author Stanley Cohen in The Man in the Crowd (1981)
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Toronto Blue Jays 1, Tampa Bay Rays 3

Toronto Blue Jays ab   r   h rbi
Scutaro ss 3 0 0 0
  McDonald ss 1 0 0 0
Hill 2b 3 0 1 0
Lind lf 3 0 1 0
Wells cf 4 0 0 0
Encarnacion 3b 4 1 1 1
Barajas c 4 0 0 0
Millar 1b 2 0 0 0
  Overbay ph 1 0 1 0
Ruiz dh 4 0 1 0
Bautista rf 3 0 0 0
Halladay p 0 0 0 0
  Carlson p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 1 5 1
Tampa Bay Rays ab   r   h rbi
Bartlett ss 3 1 0 0
Crawford lf 4 1 2 2
Longoria 3b 3 0 0 0
Zobrist rf 4 0 2 0
Burrell dh 3 0 3 0
Aybar 1b 4 1 1 1
Zaun c 3 0 0 0
  Navarro ph,c 1 0 0 0
Iwamura 2b 4 0 1 0
Upton cf 4 0 2 0
Price p 0 0 0 0
  Balfour p 0 0 0 0
  Shouse p 0 0 0 0
  Wheeler p 0 0 0 0
  Springer p 0 0 0 0
  Howell p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 3 11 3
Toronto 000 100 000150
Tampa Bay 200 000 01x3110
  Toronto Blue Jays IP H R ER BB SO
Halladay  L(15-10) 7.0 10 2 2 3 4
  Carlson   1.0 1 1 1 0 0
Totals
8.0
11
3
3
3
4
  Tampa Bay Rays IP H R ER BB SO
Price  W(9-7) 6.2 3 1 1 2 2
  Balfour   0.2 1 0 0 1 1
  Shouse   0.1 0 0 0 0 1
  Wheeler   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Springer   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
  Howell  SV(17) 0.1 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
5
1
1
3
4

  E–None.  2B–Toronto Ruiz (2,off Balfour).  HR–Toronto Encarnacion (4,4th inning off Price 0 on 1 out), Tampa Bay Crawford (14,1st inning off Halladay 1 on 0 out); Aybar (11,8th inning off Carlson 0 on 0 out).  Team LOB–7.  Team–9.  U-HP–Mike Estabrook, 1B–Dan Iassogna, 2B–Larry Vanover, 3B–Damien Beal.  T–2:44.  A–20,937.
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