Dickey has Good Debut, Colabello goes Yard

Dunedin, Fla. — The Blue Jays beat the Baltimore Orioles today 5-4.  RA Dickey knuckled two scoreless innings issuing one free pass and notching three strikeouts with new battery mate Russell Martin.

Milford Massachusetts native Chris Collabello was the only player in the game to have multiple hits going 2 for 3 with one hit being a homer.  Collabello was picked up by the Jays off waviers from Minnesota.  He played in 124 games in the past two years with the Twins batting .214  with 13 homers and 56 RBI.

The Blue Jays make the long 5 mile journey to Clearwater to take on the Phillies tomorrow.

SEE EDDIE MICHELS PHOTOS AND BOXSCORE BELOW

Chris Colabello hits homer off Orioles starter Mike Wright (EDDIE MICHELS PHOTO)

Plate umpire Bob Davidson ask Toronto catcher Russell Martin prior to catching RA Dickey’s first pitch of the game, “Ever catch a knuckle ball?” No response was heard. (EDDIE MICHELS PHOTO)

Orioles GM Dan Duquette avoided speaking with the Toronto media and went directly to the assembled Baltimore media in the press box. (EDDIE MICHELS PHOTO)

Eddie claims this is a photo of Liz in jail, however notice the bushes in the background and there were reports of the Rocket Sports & Entertainment Network office phone being called for bail money? Hmmmm, Looks like Liz was just visiting.  Eddie, what did you do?  (EDDIE MICHELS PHOTO)

BALTIMORE (4) AT TORONTO (5)

 BALTIMORE        AB  R  H BI  TORONTO          AB  R  H BI
 De Aza rf         3  1  1  2  Reyes ss          3  0  1  0 
 Álvarez cf        1  0  0  0  Goins 2b-ss       2  0  1  1 
 Cabrera 2b        3  0  0  0  Martin c          1  1  0  0 
 Paredes lf        1  0  1  0  Jiménez pr-c      2  0  0  0 
 Parmelee 1b       2  1  1  0  Encarnación 1b    3  0  0  0 
 Walker 1b         1  0  0  0  Barton 1b         2  0  0  0 
 Snider lf         3  0  1  0  Donaldson 3b      3  0  1  0 
 Navarro 2b        1  0  0  0  Nay 3b            1  0  0  0 
 Arencibia c       3  0  0  0  Diaz 3b           0  0  0  0 
 Tuiasosopo rf     1  0  0  0  Navarro dh        2  0  1  0 
 Urrutia dh        2  0  0  1  Kawasaki ph-dh    1  0  1  0 
 G Davis ph-dh     1  0  1  0  Pillar cf         4  1  0  0 
 Lough cf          2  1  0  0  Gindl rf          1  0  0  1 
 Ward c            1  0  0  0  Dickerson rf      1  1  0  0 
 Nix 3b            3  0  0  0  Colabello lf      3  1  2  2 
 Almánzar 3b       1  0  0  0  Smith pr-lf       1  1  1  0 
 Flaherty ss       2  1  1  1  Santiago 2b-ss    2  0  1  0 
 Marin ss          0  0  0  0  Travis 2b         2  0  0  0 
 TOTALS           31  4  6  4  TOTALS           34  5  9  4

 BALTIMORE                 000 031 000 --  4
 TORONTO                   021 001 01x --  5

 E--Johnson. LOB--BALTIMORE 4, TORONTO 10. 
 2B--Kawasaki. 3B--Goins. HR--De Aza 1 (1) (off 
 Hendriks), Colabello 1 (1) (off M. Wright). 
 CS--Paredes. SF--Urrutia.
                                   IP   H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR
  BALTIMORE
 M. Wright                          2   4   2   2   0   2   1
 Berry                              1   1   1   1   2   1   0
 Prado                              1   0   0   0   1   1   0
 Webb                               1   0   0   0   0   0   0
 Verrett                            2   3   1   1   0   3   0
 Johnson (L,0-1)                    1   1   1   0   1   2   0
  TORONTO
 Dickey                             2   0   0   0   1   3   0
 Hutchison                          2   0   0   0   1   0   0
 Hendriks                           1   2   3   3   1   0   1
 Loup                               1   2   1   1   0   0   0
 Copeland                           1   0   0   0   0   0   0
 Burke (W,1-0)                      1   1   0   0   0   0   0
 Oramas (S,1)                       1   1   0   0   0   1   0

 HBP--Gindl by Berry. PB--Arencibia. SO--BAL: 
 Tuiasosopo, Cabrera, Snider, De Aza. TOR: 
 Encarnación, Reyes, Travis, Barton, Colabello, 
 Gindl, Goins, Jiménez, Dickerson. BB--BAL: 
 Parmelee, Flaherty, Lough. TOR: Martin 2, 
 Dickerson, Navarro. T--2:27. A--5,013.