Entering the third game of the young season, the Jays had shown tremendous promise in the first 2 games.  As a result, the Jays sat atop the pee wee standing in a tie with Milwaukee at 2-0.  To keep the pressure on Milwaukee, however, the Jays had to square off against Minnesota – a young team with tremendous talent (that coach Dan called, the best team we have faced so far).  At the end of the day, however, the Jays had secured first place all by themselves with a rather impressive 8-4 win against Minnesota and Milwaukee’s loss to Colorado.

As the home team, the Jays took the leather to the field first, and Colin got his second start of the season.  Although Minnesota was able to load the bases thanks to 2 hits and a walk, those hits and walks were sandwiched by strikeouts, and Colin was able to slam the door on any hopes Minnesota had for opening the game with some runs.  The bottom of the first, however, the Jays had an acute case of the strikeouts themselves, as they went down in order to leave the game tied at zero after one complete inning.

In the top of the second, Minnesota was able to work another hit off Colin, but Colin struck out 3 of the 4 batters he faced to end any threat.  In their half of the second, the Jays were able to push across a run to take a 1-0 lead thanks to lead off walk by Boki.  After Boki, Brooks got drilled in the head (but he never even flinched and easily jogged to first.  Bailey followed with a single to load the bases, and Tommy got the game’s first RBI by drawing a walk. 

In the top of the third, Minnesota plated their only 4 runs of the game to take a 4-1 lead (it was coach pitch after all).  The Jays got one of those runs back in the bottom of the third to make the game 4-2 after 3.  Zach lead off the inning with a blazing double up the middle.  Thanks to his performance at the plate that would include 2 RBI latter in the game, Zach took home  a player of the game award.   Daniel advanced Zach into scoring position with a fielder’s choice, and CJ moved him to third with a single.  Jack then picked up the games second RBI with his own single. 

Minnesota went down quietly in order in the top of the 4^th (thanks to great plays by Boki, Robbie and Brooks), and the Jays grabbed their sticks again.  Colin lead off with a crushing triple to left and Boki drove him in with a triple of his own (also to left).  Brooks followed Boki with his own triple – this time to right – to score Boki, tie the game and present a rare back-to-back-to-back triples.  Grant, Bailey and Mary scorched single of their own to help the Jays take the lead and then Zach ripped another single to score the last 2 runs of the inning.  At the end of 4 innings, the Jay had a commanding 8-4 lead.

That is how the game would end as Boki took over on the hill in the top of the 5^th and proceeded to strike out the side in order on 11 pitches.  CJ was able to get on base in the bottom of the 5^th by drawing a walk, but the Jays did not bring him in (or move him over for that matter).  In the top of the 6^th, Minnesota was able to get a runner on and move that runner to third, but thanks to amazing plays by Jack at third, including a hard grounder that he threw to first for the out (that is a very long throw) and a foul pop up to end the game, Minnesoat was not able to score and Jack took home the other player of the game award.