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Game #50 GameThread: Jays @ Yankees
Just in case I don’t get home before game time, use this as the game thread. I expect to be home before, but best laid plans and all. I’m looking forward to seeing how Spencer Miles does tonight. He’s been terrific in this role. I’m thinking they could skip the opener thing, but i don’t […]
Thursday Bantering: Jays Notes
It is nice to get a one-run win for a change. They are 5-10 in one run games. I expect that to level off some. There is a bunch of little bits of Jays news: I had thought the strike zone was pretty big last night, but I was wrong, Sorry Brock. Non-Jays, but wouldn’t […]
Great Start From Trey Yesavage, Jays Win
Blue Jays 2 Yankees 0 The game was delayed two hours because of rain in New York. That was a nerve-racking game. No one scored until the Jays got two in the top of the seventh. Smart work by the Jays to save the scoring til late to give less time for the Yankees to […]
Game #49 GameThread: Jays @ Yankees
We talked about today’s new already, so all I have to say is please win. They are already saying the game will be delayed. Today’s lineup: Today’s Lineups BLUE JAYS YANKEES George Springer – DH Ben Rice – DH Vladimir Guerrero – 1B Aaron Judge – RF Daulton Varsho – CF Cody Bellinger – LF […]
Wednesday Bantering: Berrios Had Tommy John Surgery
The big news, this afternoon, is that Jose Berrios had full Tommy John surgery, so he’ll be out for a year at very least. The good news keeps coming. The told us yesterday that they were going to ‘remove loose bodies’ in his elbow and see what else needs fixing. I’m sure when Berrios woke […]
Blue Jays Birthdays: Todd Stottlemyre, David Wells
David Wells turns 63 today. David Wells was born in Torrance, California. Stories claim his mother was a ‘biker chick’ with five children from four fathers, and that he was raised by Hell’s Angels. True or not, it adds color to his background. The Blue Jays picked him in the second round of the 1982 […]
Another One Run Loss
Jays 4 Yankees 5 I don’t know….. Dylan Cease was pitching great and the Jays got three runs in the fourth. All seemed good in the world. In that fourth: The long break seemed to affect Cease, he wasn’t great in the bottom of the fourth, giving up a couple of walks and a Ryan […]
Game #48 GameThread: Jays @ Yankees
I spent the last hour in one of the lower circles of hell, a Rogers phone shop. I needed a new phone, something that should have taken 10 minutes…… Anyway, speaking of circles of hell, the Jays are playing at Yankee Stadium again. But Dylan Cease is on the mound to battle the demons. Today’s […]
Who’s Hot, Who’s Cold: Blue Jays Pitchers
I thought we’d take a look at the Jays pitchers over the last three weeks. Over our last 16 games, the Jays are 7-9. The pitchers have a 3.49 ERA. Hot Dylan Cease: 3 starts, 2-0, 1.71 ERA, In 21.0 innings, batters hit .203/.253/.284 with 1 home run, 4 walks and 26 strikeouts. Three starts, […]
Blue Jays Birthdays: Rick Cerone
Rick Cerone celebrates his 72nd birthday today. Cerone was one of the original Blue Jays. Four months and one day before their inaugural game, Toronto traded for Rick and John Lowenstein, sending Rico Carty to Cleveland. The Jays had selected Carty from Cleveland in the expansion draft and reacquired him in March 1978. Cerone appeared […]
Another Frustrating Loss For The Jays
Jays 6 Yankees 7 The Jays turned in one inning. Going into the seventh, the Jays were up 5-3. Adam Macko is in and gets the first two outs of the inning, but, with Aaron Judge coming up, John Schneider goes with a right-hander, Yariel Rodriguez. Understandable, Judge is much better vs lefties. And I […]
Game #47 GameThread: Jays @ Yankees
We get the first of four against the Yankees today. There were little bits of Jays news this afternoon: Tonight’s lineup is……interesting: Today’s Lineups BLUE JAYS YANKEES George Springer – DH Paul Goldschmidt – 1B Vladimir Guerrero – 1B Ben Rice – DH Kazuma Okamoto – 3B Aaron Judge – RF Lenyn Sosa – 2B […]
WHO WORE IT BEST: 0/00
At the start of the 1929 season, the New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians innovated baseball, starting the season with numbers on the back of their players jerseys for easy identification. While numbers had been experimented with prior to the season, they were mostly smaller and located on the arms, meant primarily for umpires and […]
Monday Bantering: Jays Notes
The Jays start a four-game series with the Yankees at Yankee Stadium tonight. Tonight it is Patrick Corbin (1-1, 3,93) vs. Ryan Weathers (2-2, 3.00). Tuesday: Dylan Cease (3-1, 2.41) vs. Will Warren (5-1, 3.42). Wednesday: Trey Yesavage (1-1, 1.40) vs. Cam Schlittler (6-1, 1.35) Thursday: Bullpen Day, likely with Spencer Myles (1-0, 2.55) doing […]
Vlad Homers, Jays Beat Tigers
Blue Jays 4 Tigers 1 We got more than two runs. Or actually, we got two runs twice: We only had six hits and one walk on the day. Vlad and Varsho had two each (and all the extra base hits). On the pitching side, Kevin Gausman was great. He went six innings, allowing just […]
Game #46 GameThread: Jays @ Tigers
Game Three with the Tigers and then the Jays head off for four games in New York against the Yankees. And Adam Macko is up with the team. He told reporters that he rushed around to buy ‘collared shirts’ to wear on the team bus, saying that he only had hoodies. It seems that I’ve […]
Jays Roster Move: Nance to IL, Macko Up
Yeah, this is the way this season is going. Tommy Nance has been put on the IL with forearm discomfort. Well, they said ‘right forearm discomfort’….but I figured you guys knew which arm it would be. Nance has pitched in 19 games, 20 innings, 16 hits, 1 home run, 8 walks, 24 strikeouts with a […]
Jays Win In 10 Innings
Blue Jays 2 Tigers 1 (10 innings) Jays, I clearly asked for more than two runs today. But…..we won. I hate bullpen days……but they seem to work. The Jays game up just one run, on seven hits, with 14 strikeouts. It is tough to argue with success. The Jays used six pitchers: Offensively? We did […]
Game #45 GameThread: Jays @ Tigers
Why don’t we score more than two runs? I have stuff on this morning, but should be back to watch the game by the second inning. But I’m putting together the GameThread the night before, so I don’t have the lineups They are saying Mason Fluharty will start and Spencer Miles will be second up. […]
Jays Walked Off by Tigers, 3-2
Well, after a dramatic walk off victory on Wednesday we get a crushing walk off loss. Jeff Hoffman takes the L, but actually wasn’t really bad. The bigger problem was managing just five hits and two walks off a pretty bad bullpen in a game where the expected bulk guy was knocked out after two […]
Game #44 GameThread: Jays @ Tigers
I’m happy to have a series that’s not against the Rays. And it is on Apple TV. Stupid MLB. I’ve been to Comerica Park once, for one game. We’d gone to Lansing to watch the Lugnuts and the Tigers had a day game, while the Lugnuts were playing in the evening. So there was time […]
Friday Bantering: Jays Notes
Tonight’s game is an Apple TV one, because MLB will sellout to anyone offering a bag of money. Trey Yesavage (1-1, 0.68) goes against Brenan Hanifee (0-0, 1.08, making his second start of the season, with 5 relief appearances). It looks like a cloudy day (or a cloudy weekend) in Detroit. There are a bunch […]
Friday OpenThread
I was going to have this up in the morning, but played tennis and got up in time to grab my stuff and go. So it is a Friday afternoon OpenThread. Use it to chat about anything you’d like, baseball related or not. I’ve been watching the new Daredevil series on Disney, after not have […]
More On Last Night’s Win
Since last night’s game, I’ve read or heard the term ‘turning point’ dozens of times. Mostly, people are hoping it turns out to be one, but let’s see if they can win a couple in a row or three of five or so. There were a few moments that didn’t make it into last night’s […]
Blue Jays Birthdays: Roy Halladay, Pat Borders
Today would have been Roy Halladay’s 49th birthday. Depending on who you ask, Roy Halladay is either the best or second-best Blue Jays starter of all time, but there’s no question that he and Dave Stieb top the list in franchise history. Stieb was the best AL pitcher of the 1980s, while Halladay dominated the […]
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