2012 season Toronto Blue Jays



the 2012 season injury-plagued year blue jays, having used 31 total pitchers, set franchise record. in june, 3 starting pitchers (brandon morrow, kyle drabek, , drew hutchison) lost injury in span of 4 days, 2 of whom required tommy john surgery; in addition, starters dustin mcgowan , jesse litsch missed entire season due injury. in second half of season, key players in toronto s line-up, including all-star josé bautista, missed significant amount of playing time due injury, sending team freefall , culminating in 73–89 record. despite underachievements of ricky romero , adam lind, casey janssen established himself reliable closer (22 sv, 2.52 era) , edwin encarnación developed 1 of league s best power hitters (.280 avg, 42 hr, 110 rbi).


on april 5, 2012 team opened on road in cleveland, beat indians 7–4 in 16 full innings,during game set record of longest opening-day game in major league history.the previous record of 15 innings had been set washington senators , philadelphia athletics on april 13, 1926, , tied detroit tigers , indians on april 19, 1960.


on april 20, jays turned triple play against kansas city royals in 4–3 win. first triple play turned since september 21, 1979.



team record 2012: 73 wins–89 losses, w%- 0.451, 22 games behind division leader, fourth in division




^ season forget in blue jay land . globe , mail. october 2, 2012. 
^ blue jays outlast indians in 16-inning marathon opener . cbc sports. april 5, 2012. 
^ blue jays turn triple play in 4-3 win on kansas city royals toronto star. accessed on april 22, 2012.






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