I'm Not Done and I Won't Be Till My Head Falls Off, Though it May Not Be a Long Way Off - Game 25, Toronto at K.C.
by hugo on Apr 26, 2008 6:27 PM EDT
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PrintToronto Blue Jays at Kansas City Royals, Apr 26, 2008 7:10 PM EDT
Friday, April 25- Kansas City, Missouri
8:10 PM (EDT)
Toronto Blue Jays ss David Eckstein 2b Aaron Hill rf Alexis Rios cf Vernon Wells dh Matt Stairs 3b Scott Rolen 1b Lyle Overbay lf Adam Lind c Gregg Zaun Pitching: Shaun Marcum, rhp |
Kansas City Royals cf David DeJesus 2b Alberto Collaspo 3b Alex Gordon lf Jose Guillen rf Mark Teahen dh Brett Butler 1b Ross Gload c John Buck ss Tony Pena Jr. Pitching: Luke Hochevar, RHP |
"Sometimes Sh*t Happens" That was A.J. Burnett after last n ight's 8-4 abomination in Kansas City. The Jays looked like they were finally going to win one convincingly as Lyle Overbay slugged his first homerun of the season and Scott Rolen played smooth defense and hit a 2-out, 2-run double to give the Jays a two run lead heading into the 8th.
It's easy to blame Gibbons, for what happened yesterday, and there's no doubt that his moves were questionable. He left A.J. in for too long and intentionally walked one of the worst hitters in the league, Tony Pena Jr. But the biggest problem was the scrapmeister David Eckstein. With the Jays still up 4-2 and with Scott Downs in to face lefty Ross Gload with 1 out and runners on 1st and 3rd, Downs got a comebacker from Gload. He fielded it cleanly, spun, and made a perfect throw to David Eckstein covering second, with plenty of time for Eckstein to take the throw and throw on to first. Eckstein, though, just plain dropped the ball, and the Jays watched their game slip away as Downs was unable to get out of the inning until it was long over. I can't help but mention that Eckstein had previously made an awful throwing error that cost the Jays a run.
Anyway, at least Rolen's return can be counted as a positive, as can Lyle's first HR of the season. But the biggest positive has got to be that Adam Lind has finally been called up to the big team. Joe Inglett was sent down to make room. Nothing against Inglett, but I like the fact that I no longer have to worry about him trying to play the outfield or about Scutaro/Barajas/Inglett at the end of the lineup. Welcome to the team, Adam! Of course, Gibby is hitting you 8th.
Shaun Marcum pitches today against #1 pick Luke Hochevar and it will be interesting to see what he's got.
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Hochevar will probably no-hit us
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Took Marcum a lot of pitches to get through the first
Hopefully he can get some grounders on first or second pitches
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Some nice back to back walks to set up Lind
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
So that's 0 for 3 with RISP
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Make it 0 for 6
including Hill’s fly to the gap that moved x to third after the stolen base on the botched hit-and-run.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
There goes Marcum's no-no
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
And the pulled in infield cuts down the runner at the plate
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Marcum walks 2 after the play at the plate
but gets the grounder from Guillen to strand them all.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Rolen with a double to the gap
Exactly the same as his 2RBI one last night
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
And steals third standing up
Hochevar paying no attention to him at all
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Overbay grounds to first
Trickles away briefly, but Rolen wasn’t going on contact. 0 for 7
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
And Lind makes it 0 for 8
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Overbay tips a grounder down the line
it turns into a double
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
That's two balls off Overbay's glove this inning
this one an RBI single.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Marcum gets the next two out
but a 1-0 lead feels pretty insurmountable when we’re hitting like this.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
our decent on paper lineup
isn’t looking any better than Inglett et. al
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Inglett wasn't actually in the lineup that much
and I wouldn’t have minded him at third over Scutaro instead of in right.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Inglett definitely wasn't the problem
in and of himself, it was that he was playing outfield and there were 2-3 other stiffs in the lineup at the same time.
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Zaun with the leadoff double
This gives us a chance to get to 0 for 11
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Well 7 straight foul balls makes this AB officially gritty
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Leading into a single to the right side
But Zaun stops at third. So 1 for 9, 0 runs.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Hill strikes out
1 for 10
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Rios grounds to short
but Peña bobbles it and everyone’s safe. Of course it’s an error, so technically 1 for 11.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
And Wells grounds into the in no way unexpected double play
so 1 for 12.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
way to capitalize on the error fellas
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
I look forward to immediately giving that run back
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
With Marcum's pitch count up?
Yeah, that’s also in no way unexpected.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Three straight line drive outs
But he did it quickly, so he could be out to blow it in the 6th.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Wow, that was a slow-deveoping double play
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
At least we didn't strand anyone in scoring position this time
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
It took an extra inning
But Marcum gave it back alright.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
can't really blame Marcum
the pitch was a mistake, but with the way the Jays are hitting, can’t nitpick the pitcher. Actually, Marcum so far has turned in the best start by a Jays starter in a while. Time to score some runs and give him the win he deserves!
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Well Burnett's 7.1 IP, 1ER looks fine
as long as you don’t see the 4 unearned runs.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
that's true
depends on how you look at unearned runs.
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
also
nifty fielding by Shaun to end the inning
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Zaun draws the 1 out walk
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Hill hits it hard, but it's a fly ball to center to strand Zaun
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
always fun to lose
when you have more hits than the other team
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Why is Marcum still out there?
He gets the first pitch fly ball, at least
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
And a two pitch grounder
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Marcum keeps looking at his hand
Blister? Something wrong with a nail?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
nice inning though
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
And another called strikeout
Okay, now he’s done for the night, right?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
one would think so
over 100 pitches. He gets one more chance to win (or avoid the hard-luck loss)
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
And he's going t get an extra day's rest
with the off day Monday.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Ah, Nuñez, the guy we rocked yesterday.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Rios with the leadoff walk
Gotta be stealing here, right?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Rios draws the leadoff walk
of course, I don’t know whether having runners on is a good thing or a bad thing anymore
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Wells now 0 for his last 11 or so
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Stairs with a single to the gap to put runners at first and third
Pinch run with PMOD?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
That is indeed what happened
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Rolen strikes out
1 for 13
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Overbay draws the walk
No pressure, Lind.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
anyone else wondering why they watch this team?
what else can happen to extend this losing streak?
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
What other team am I going to watch?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
And on a tough play, 1 for 14.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Remember when we got to watch Johnny Mac make those plays every day?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
we could have 2-3 innings of those plays
and a SS who can actually get on base for the other 6 innings, but Gibbons doesn’t want that for some reason.
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Well, this is Soria's third straight day
Maybe he won’t be sharp.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Oh, and TB won their second straight against Boston
so our getting swept by them it looking a little less humiliating.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
x singles up the middle
Will Hill be clutch or non-clutch this time?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Non-clutch
but not a double play, at least.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
And Rios flies out
Ugh. Just, ugh. yet again a rookie shuts us down.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
great game fellas
outhit the other team and get a great start from the pitcher and the other team makes two errors and yet the Jays still manage to lose. well, I guess tomorrow will be another game…
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
is Hopeless Bleak Despair the song of choice for tomorrow?
Or how about, “Everything is catching on fire”? “Paid to fake it”? “Planning midnight raids on our unsuspecting fans”?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
good suggestions, particularly the last one
but I think the one I chose also works quite well….
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Maybe we'll get chances to use all of them.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
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