Take 2 Roundup: Games of Tue, 12/4/07

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[size=18:af1e7367d4]Blue Jays Reliever Escapes Jam, Has Pitched 31.1 Scoreless IP[/size:af1e7367d4]

Blue Jays reliever Mark Eichhorn has been so dominant this year, all he needed was 1 pitch to kill a 9th inning bases-loaded threat mounted by the A's, with the tying run on 1st base, in [url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/1986/scores/boxscore.php?id=326]Toronto's 5-2 win over Oakland[/url] on Tuesday night.

Amazingly, Eichhorn has pitched 31.0 innings in relief to start the 1986 season [i:af1e7367d4]without giving up a single run[/i:af1e7367d4]. He's given up just 13 hits, 7 walks, and he's struck out 38. He's within 3 innings of tying the [url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/shareit/F8FS]consecutive scoreless relief innings record of 34[/url] held by Jack Aker, and miles past [url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/shareit/PdCP]the record to start a season (24.1 by Bob Moose)[/url]. Let this serve as our official attempt at jinxing him.

[b:af1e7367d4]Around the Majors:[/b:af1e7367d4] The Tigers were at it again, in an apparent campaign to have us start reporting their Magic Number, [url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/1986/scores/boxscore.php?id=331]thrashing the Rangers 17-9[/url], behind Lou Whitaker's 6-for-6 night. And the Giants' Mike Lacoss recorded [url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/1986/scores/boxscore.php?id=321]his 5th win of the year against the Pirates[/url], tying Detroit's Jack Morris for the [url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/1986/stats/player_pitching.php?pos=0&order_by=w+DESC&qual=1&univ=sim]Major League lead[/url].