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Kirk Drives In Three, Jays Beat Rays
Blue Jays 10 Rays 5 A win at Tropicana. I always think I’m more likely to find a $20 bill on the ground than to see the Jays win at that House of Horrors. The Jays, very democratically, scored two runs in each of five innings: We had 17 hits (let me double check, maybe […]
Blue Jays @ Rays Game Thread
I hate games at Tropicana, but here we are. There was a little bit of Jays news. Lenyn Sosa was taken off the 60-day DL outrighted to Buffalo. Maybe Trey will be back this season: And Spencer Arrighetti might be able to make it back this year. Today’s Lineups BLUE JAYS RAYS Brett Bateman – […]
Who’s Hot, Who’s Cold: Blue Jays Pitchers
So far this month, the Jays are 10-6 with a 2.87 ERA, easily the best month our pitchers have had this year. Hot Dylan Cease: 3 starts, 0-0, 2.45 ERA. In 18.1 innings, batters hit .158/.236/.274, with 2 home runs, 8 walks and 27 strikeouts. Also opponents stole 14 bases in those 18.1, with 2 […]
Who’s Hot, Who’s Cold: Blue Jays Batters
The Jays are 10-6 so far this month. The batters are hitting .235/.298/.335, averaging 3.7 runs per game. Hot Alejandro Kirk: Played in 14 games, starting 12. Hit .378/.455/.533 with 1 double, 2 home run, 10 RBI, 8 walks and 5 strikeouts. He’s been pretty amazing. Add in that he’s 66% on challenges (catchers average […]
Off-Day Open Thread
It has been a while since we’ve had an off-day. The Jays haven’t had an off-day since July 30th. At that time we were 5.5 games back of the Wild Card spot, with six teams to jump. Now they are just one game back, with two teams to jump over. That turnaround in 17 games […]
Happy Birthday: Dave Lemanczyk
Today marks Dave Lemanczyk’s 76th birthday. Dave was a starting pitcher for the Blue Jays during their inaugural season. He started the second game in franchise history, recording the team’s first-ever loss. He was a solid pitcher, selected from the Detroit Tigers in the Expansion Draft. The draft itself was something of a sucker’s bet; […]
Jays Lose In Extra Innings
Yankees 4 Jays 3 (10 innings) Well, I didn’t expect a sweep, not that it wouldn’t have nice. Tied in the tenth the Yankees scored two in the top of the inning. After a sac bunt, to move the Manfred Man to third base, Ben Rice homered off Braydon Fisher. We got one in the […]
Yankees @ Blue Jays Game Thread
This is game #126. And it is an early game, but I’m out for a while. I might be back before game time, but I might not, so this is the GameThread if I don’t get back in time. I played singles tennis this morning, I don’t do that very often, but won. It is […]
Blue Jays Beat Yankees
Yankees 1 Blue Jays 4 A few more runs would be ok, but it is so much fun watching the Jays lately. On a bullpen day, we beat one of the best pitchers in baseball. We used seven pitchers: The offense did more than enough, which, even in this little great stretch, is unusual. We […]
Yankees @ Jays Game Thread
Many roster moves happened today, check the post below this one for the details. Rickey (no e) Tiedemann (two e’s) sounds thrilled to be up with the Jays: Today’s Lineup: Today’s Lineups YANKEES BLUE JAYS Trent Grisham – CF Brett Bateman – CF Ben Rice – DH Nathan Lukes – RF Heliot Ramos – LF […]
Jays Roster Moves: Guerrero To IL, Cameron Up, Tiedemann Up
I thought the Jays and I had an understanding, I would play tennis on Saturday mornings and they wouldn’t make any news while I play. Anyway: Vladimir Guerrero has been put on the 7-day concussion IL. Concussions are terrible things. My youngest son got play playing rugby and it ended his rugby playing. He had […]
Jays Beat Yankees 3-1
Gerrit Cole was a tough assignment, but the pitching staff was more than up for the challenge of winning the pitching duel and the offence took advantage of their opportunities and did just enough. There was bad news, though. Vladimir Guerrero jr. left the game after being kicked in the side of the head sliding […]
Yankees @Jays GameThread
As a reminder, today’s game is on AppleTV. Yesterday afternoon was disappointing, but taking three of four from the Red Sox still counts as a statement by a team that’s playing surprisingly well since the deadline. The Yankees will test whether this run can amount to anything. The Jays draw Gerrit Cole today, Cam Schlittler […]
Friday Bantering: Jays Notes
It is funny how things work. Going into the series with the Red Sox, I would have been thrilled with the Jays winning three of four. There is something about losing the last game of the series. If we lost the first game and won the last three, I’d be thrilled. If we just lost […]
No Offense and Poor Relief Pitching, Jays Lose
Red Sox 7 Blue Jays 0 If you had told me, going into this series, that we would win 3 of 4, I would have been happy. I knew we weren’t going to run the table. As Meatloaf never said, 3 out of 4 ain’t bad. But…..when you win the first three, you get greedy. […]
Red Sox @ Jays Game Thread
Game four of four. Might as well make it a sweep, since it is just sitting there. Speaking of sitting there, I think I’m going to be doing that at a near by bar for today’s game. I feel like lunch out today. Max, we could use a great start. Everyone else is giving us […]
Thursday Bantering: Blue Jays Notes
We have an afternoon game today, 3:00 Eastern. The Jays now have a 15.6% chance of making the playoffs, which is almost double than what it was a couple of weeks ago. The next couple of weeks well tell us a lot. After today’s game, they play six games (home and road) against the Yankees […]
Happy Birthday Randal Grichuk
Today marks Randal Grichuk’s 35th birthday. Across five seasons as a Blue Jay, Grichuk played 479 games and slashed .243/.289/.461, belting 90 home runs—good for 26th on the franchise’s all-time list. He was worth 4.2 bWAR during that time, providing solid offensive power and stretches of exciting play. The Blue Jays acquired Grichuk from the […]
Jays Win Third In Row Over Red Sox
Red Sox 4 Blue Jays 6 The bottom of the eighth was one of those great innings for those of us who tend to think we’ve seen everything: A great inning, and a ball being just two or three feet foul turned out to be very important (also that Contreras can’t catch, something you would […]
Red Sox @ Blue Jays Game Thread
Game #122. Forty games left after this on. I think I’m going to use this picture for every Game Thread the rest of the season. It will save me the time I usually waste looking at the pictures we are allowed to use, trying to remember ‘did I use that one already’. Might as well […]
Wednesday Open Thread
I got a few things going on today, and I’m kind wanting a day off, so lets do an open thread. I saw a tweet for a post saying “How could the Jays pull it off?“ and I was thinking win a lot of games? That’s it right? Cause blowing up the other teams’ ballparks, […]
Jays Beat Red Sox
Red Sox 3 Blue Jays 5 Despite Dylan Cease not having his usual great start, it turned out to be a good game. Cease went 5 innings, allowed 5 hits, 4 walks, and 7 strikeouts, but gave up 2 home runs. Neither one was crushed; one just barely cleared the wall. For anyone else, it […]
Red Sox @ Blue Jays Game Thread
We really should have a contest to guess how the umpires will award the Red Sox a run tonight. Maybe an Act of God, or Act of Manfred? Oh well, the fun of playing in the AL East. If we played in the AL Central, the umpires couldn’t care enough about any of the teams […]
Tuesday Jays Notes
There is a little bit of news from the Jays: But now will look like this: I’m interested in moving Bateman into center, when Straw was originally there. I’d love to hear the wherefore and the why, one of my favorite Gordon Lightfoot songs. I’m interested in seeing how the umpires will manage to award […]
Happy Birthday Colby Rasmus And Melky Cabrera
Today marks Colby Rasmus’s 40th birthday. Rasmus was selected as the 28th overall pick in the first round of the 2005 draft. The Blue Jays chose Ricky Romero with the 6th pick that year. He appeared on Baseball America’s Top 100 Prospects list for three consecutive years: ranked #29 in 2007, #5 in 2008, and […]
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