Jason Bay advanced from 1st to 3rd last night in the top of the 4th inning on rookie Brett Cecil’s big league brain fart. The score was tied at 1-1 with Bay, who had drawn a walk to lead off the inning, standing on 1st base. After missing wide with a ball, Toronto catcher Rod Barajas weakly threw the ball back to Cecil who missed the catch, walked towards the SS to retrieve the ball, looked at it very quickly, and threw it into the Blue Jays dugout without calling for a time out. The ball was still live, Bay advanced to 2nd base and was eventually awarded 3rd base on the throwing error. Cecil had his arms up in the air as if to say ‘What did I do?’, as it took the umpires an extra moment or two to realize that he hadn’t called for the time out. Bay turned out to be the winning run when two batters later, Mike Lowell singled to bring him in to score.
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