Down to the Bottom of the Sea: Game 39, Jays at the Indians of Cleveland
Toronto @ Cleveland
If you actually watched the entire game on Saturday, you're a far better man than I. I got in from my gig at around 8:30, saw the Jays down 12-0, and immediately put in a Netflix (The Fisher King, which I liked a lot). Between that and the bad news regarding Wells, things are looking pretty bad right now. Newcomers Wilkerson and Mench haven't exactly lit things up. Once the 10 days have passed, I hope the Jays send someone down and recall Lind - the way the offense is going, it's not like Lind can make it any worse, so we might as well give him some regular MLB at-bats and see if he shows himself to be a major-league hitter, since he will be 25 in July.
I won't be around for the game today, as it's Mother's Day and I have a feeling Mrs. Hugo might prefer, well, pretty much anything to watching the Jays flail uselessly against another left-handed pitcher. The Jays will throw Shaun Marcum, while the Indians counter with Cliff Lee, who is pitching even better this season than Marcum is. Maybe that drubbing will wake something up in the Jays, who knows? At the very least, ruining their pythagorean record will hide their pathetic performance in the clutch.
Update: 5.12.2008: Let's go ahead and use this game thread for this afternoon's 4 pm game. Torgen is, as usual, right on the mark, and I jumped the gun one start. It's A.J. Burnett against Fausto Carmona this afternoon, and then the 2nd half of the trad. doubleheader will be the Marcum-Lee matchup.
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Today is Burnett vs. Carmona
Marcum vs. Lee is tomorrow.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
by Torgen on May 11, 2008 12:52 PM EDT 0 recs
Now that's shaking up the lineup
Wilkerson, Hill, Rios, Rolen, Stairs, Overbay, Scutaro, Barajas, Inglett (in LF)
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
by Torgen on May 11, 2008 12:55 PM EDT 0 recs
And it's raining
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by Torgen on May 11, 2008 1:01 PM EDT 0 recs
Interesting that the games in Detroit and Pittsburgh have been called already
and in Cleveland they’re trying to wait it out.
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by Torgen on May 11, 2008 2:19 PM EDT 0 recs
Well, now they've called it
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by Torgen on
May 11, 2008 2:34 PM EDT
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Oh joy, it's going to be a regular-style doubleheader
not the day-night kind.
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by Torgen on May 11, 2008 5:03 PM EDT 0 recs
Try as in try to be somewhere where you can watch it?
Or try as in try not to be repulsed by what you see?
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by Torgen on
May 12, 2008 4:10 PM EDT
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I am really not thrilled with them signing more former good players.....
by rincewind on
May 12, 2008 4:12 PM EDT
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I guess I like what they've done with the starting staff
Put in young guys and watch them improve….course I guess that wasn’t the plan last year….the old, used to be good pitchers they signed got hurt and they had to use the young guys…..now the hitters are getting hurt and they search out older used to be good players.
by rincewind on
May 12, 2008 4:16 PM EDT
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Ohka didn't get hurt
he just sucked.
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by Torgen on
May 12, 2008 4:20 PM EDT
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1-2-3 in the first for the Jays
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by Torgen on May 12, 2008 4:09 PM EDT 0 recs
Burnett looks good thought....
nice K to start the game
by rincewind on May 12, 2008 4:14 PM EDT 0 recs
Rolen takes a walk....
Lets see how Stairs does against Carmona’s fastball….
by rincewind on May 12, 2008 4:21 PM EDT 0 recs
Grounds into a double play
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by Torgen on
May 12, 2008 4:22 PM EDT
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never mind....nice double play on the first pitch.....yay stairs
by rincewind on May 12, 2008 4:21 PM EDT 0 recs
At least it took a flashy play
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by Torgen on
May 12, 2008 4:22 PM EDT
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Can we stop pulling the ball yet?
At least Stairs’ GIDP ball was up the middle.
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by Torgen on May 12, 2008 4:24 PM EDT 0 recs
so if we get another fielder hurt what old formerly good batter are we going to sign?
Carl Yastremski is available
by rincewind on May 12, 2008 4:25 PM EDT 0 recs
Another 1-3 out....Burnett is going to do it all himself today...
by rincewind on May 12, 2008 4:31 PM EDT 0 recs
Is he going to his a pinch hit homer for himself too?
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by Torgen on
May 12, 2008 4:33 PM EDT
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I think watching Scoot and Barajas bat back to back is cruel and inhuman punishment
by rincewind on May 12, 2008 4:35 PM EDT 0 recs
Scoot's been so hot
I thought he should be leading off. At least until he cools off again.
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by Torgen on
May 12, 2008 4:37 PM EDT
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Against lefties, anyways.
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by Torgen on
May 12, 2008 4:37 PM EDT
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Inglett can't swing on a hit and run
and Barajas makes it back to the bag.
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by Torgen on May 12, 2008 4:38 PM EDT 0 recs
What was that?
is there some law that says we have to have a runner thrown out on the bases every game…...just made it back
by rincewind on May 12, 2008 4:38 PM EDT 0 recs
Well the ball was below his knees and inside
Not much swing you can put on that
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by Torgen on
May 12, 2008 4:38 PM EDT
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RISP time!
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by Torgen on May 12, 2008 4:39 PM EDT 0 recs
Well....Wilkerson moves the runner up to third....
First pitch swinging…
by rincewind on May 12, 2008 4:40 PM EDT 0 recs
Not useful when it makes the second out
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by Torgen on
May 12, 2008 4:41 PM EDT
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0 for 1
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by Torgen on May 12, 2008 4:40 PM EDT 0 recs
Hill doesn't look good at the plate at the moment...
Think he’s pressing?
by rincewind on May 12, 2008 4:42 PM EDT 0 recs
Absolutely
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by Torgen on
May 12, 2008 4:42 PM EDT
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0 for 2
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
by Torgen on May 12, 2008 4:43 PM EDT 0 recs
He came highly recommended by Derek Jeter
a man with a vested interest in our failure. How can we blame him?
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by Torgen on
May 12, 2008 4:45 PM EDT
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I know we are goign to point to injuries....but a healthy team was last...
by rincewind on
May 12, 2008 4:46 PM EDT
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Which guys are really hitting worse than we'd imagine they should be
Hill, Rios, Overbay…..
by rincewind on
May 12, 2008 4:47 PM EDT
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Lind, when he was here
which is relevant because if he had hit then he’d still be here, which would eliminate the need for Wilkerson.
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by Torgen on
May 12, 2008 4:49 PM EDT
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Wells had only recently heated up
before breaking his wrist.
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by Torgen on
May 12, 2008 4:51 PM EDT
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another K for AJ
5 now…..what’s the most K’s in a game for the Jay’s this year?
by rincewind on May 12, 2008 4:53 PM EDT 0 recs
10?
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by Torgen on
May 12, 2008 4:54 PM EDT
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I woudl assume so
Carmona is a ground ball machine.
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by Torgen on
May 12, 2008 4:56 PM EDT
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Rios singles into the Bermuda Triangle
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by Torgen on May 12, 2008 4:56 PM EDT 0 recs
The opposite field Bermuda Triangle, no less
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by Torgen on
May 12, 2008 4:56 PM EDT
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Rios not running
but breaks up the double play.
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by Torgen on May 12, 2008 4:57 PM EDT 0 recs
and there is our out on the base paths.....What was Rolen thinking....
by rincewind on May 12, 2008 4:58 PM EDT 0 recs
He was probably thinking
“Pevey is waving me to third.”
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by Torgen on
May 12, 2008 4:58 PM EDT
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Tabler is saying what a good play it was for Rolen....
Damn it you get 27 outs a game don’t give them away
by rincewind on
May 12, 2008 4:59 PM EDT
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24 if you count Barajas.
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by Torgen on
May 12, 2008 5:03 PM EDT
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Another fly ball for Wilk
this one almost not caught.
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by Torgen on May 12, 2008 5:16 PM EDT 0 recs
Good when you can elevate against a power sinker
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by Torgen on
May 12, 2008 5:19 PM EDT
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AJ's been more democratic the last couple of innings...
Letting the fielders play too
by rincewind on May 12, 2008 5:22 PM EDT 0 recs
Hill strikes out looking bad again....wish they could sit him a day or two....
by rincewind on May 12, 2008 5:26 PM EDT 0 recs
another day or two?
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by Torgen on
May 12, 2008 5:27 PM EDT
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AJ lucked out
That was almost game over.
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by Torgen on May 12, 2008 5:34 PM EDT 0 recs
And that's game over.
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by Torgen on May 12, 2008 5:36 PM EDT 0 recs
Lead off single for stairs....why would anyone throw him anything but a fastball....
by rincewind on May 12, 2008 5:41 PM EDT 0 recs
Because when you guess right on a fastball, it's not just a ground ball single
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by Torgen on
May 12, 2008 5:43 PM EDT
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Stairs breaks up the double play
because we have enough of those already. Overbay, why are you pulling the ball?
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by Torgen on May 12, 2008 5:44 PM EDT 0 recs


