The Charging Sky - Game 49, Royals at Jays
by hugo on May 23, 2008 6:15 PM EDT
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The Jays played the Angels tough yesterday and managed to salvage the third game, which was good, as getting swept at home really stings. The Jays packed the bases and jumped out to a 3-run lead on RBI hits by Inglett, Wilkerson, and Barajas, and A.J. Burnett was downright nasty until he wasn't anymore, and then the lead was gone. But Lyle Overbay hit a 6th inning solo blast to give the Jays a 4-3 lead that they never relinquished, thanks to steller pitching out of the bullpen by Jesse Carlson, Scott Downs, and B.J. Ryan. Carlson and Downs were especially impressive, as Carlson struck out the side in the 7th and Snakeface retired the middle of the order in the 8th. Ryan pitched a nice easy 1-2-3 9th, and the game was won.
Roy Halladay pitches tonight for the Jays against the 21-26 Royals. Zack Greinke pitches for the Royals and is having a tremendous year. Greinke (who I always want to spell "Grienke")is 5-1 with a 2.18 ERA that an almost 3-1 K/BB ratio and solid 3.80 FIP suggests is more skill than luck, though some of both. That said, you can't expect a 90% LOB rate to continue for any pitcher. For his part, Doc is actually getting unlucky as he's got a stellar 2.81 FIP (apparently he's not getting the benefit of the Jays' defense) and an LOB% of 68.6%. Let's see if the Jays can bring Greinke back to earth a bit!
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that sucks
it’s on extra innings, but the Royals feed
"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
The cable version of mlb.tv
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
It's on MLB.tv
if you’re not in Canada.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
It's like that for every city's local broadcast area
even when the games aren’t on local TV. Canada’s no different in that respect.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Neither is Minnesota
but I suspect the whole state is blacked out for Twins games.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
South Dakota as well, I understand
"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
If you get Rogers Digital Cable
Past games have apparently been shown on channel 399. I kind of assume that you don’t get digital, since you likely would have already figured this out, but it’s worth a try.
man
what a long week. You really appreciate baseball after 9 straight 12-hour workdays!
"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 assume you also appreciate long weekends.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
I'll let you know
the next time I get one. Unfortunately this is a working weekend for me, though Anna (my daughter) and I are going to a barbacue tomorrow afternoon so that should be fun
"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
on a slider down and in to a lefty
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
yeah if you could pick that pitch to run on
you’d never get thrown out
"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
Guillen with the Royals' second single up the middle
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
didn't hit it very hard
I’ve gotta believe J-Mac makes that play, gets a much better 1st step on it
"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
ugh
cheap run there
"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
Royals TV needs proofreading
unless we’re suddenly allowed two DHes.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
I wonder what the all-time high is
for percentage of runners left on base over a full season. Greinke is at 90% right now, which is just ridiculous.
"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
Stew breaks his bat on a soft liner to second
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
anyone hear anything
on Mac or Eckstein? Weren’t they both eligible to come off the dl today?
"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
x had a setback in his rehab assignment
Mac was never going to be ready for today.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
thanks
I’ve been totally out of the news loop this week and last
"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
Not like Scutaro has been embarrassing himself in the meantime
x’s D and a better bat than either.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
no complaints about Scutaro
I’ve been a supporter. Was just curious. I do think the Jays will be best leveraging the different skills of all 3 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
Hill flies out to left
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
At least out of the infield
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Is that a third single up the middle?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
would've been four, I think
the Jays got lucky as Scutaro was covering 2nd for Pena’s attempted steal
"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
Think Hillman is responsible?
I think Koshien is the only Japan League stadium with grass, so tricks for playing on turf would be more familiar to him than most ML managers.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
makes sense to me
"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
Kinda like how Minnesota's speed game takes advantage
of the hard dirt and the Minnesota chop.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Speaking of which
I still want to get a 2 week rail pass and watch a home game for each Japan league team at some point.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Rolen jumps on the first pitch
not a bad strategy with a control pitcher like Greinke
"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
Rolen with the single to left
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Overbay bounces one over Teahen's head
RISP time!
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Lyle
singles him all the way to third
"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
unfortunately
a crap Mench-pop up will not
"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
Grienke gets booed for the double fake by the T.O. fans
Quick, start the wave!
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
have you seen the Drunk Jays Fans
guide to the wave? It is pretty hilarious, and does a great job of summing up my thoughts on the wave
"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
Step 1: don't do the wave.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
so this inning sucks
"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
At least it wasn't a double play
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
At least watching the Jays is educational
They keep teaching me ways to not score runs that I never thought possible
Scoot!!!
"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
That's 1 for 3
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Since we're leading 2-1
that would be unlikely.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
though with this team
you never know
"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
Soft liner to short now
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Grounder to short
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Maybe this is just Doc's plan
and it didn’t pan out in the first inning
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
And a strikeout
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
gets Gordon
with many curveballs
"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
Stew singles over short
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Hill grounds out, but not a double play
RISP time again.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Rios seems back
nice opposite way rip
"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
Rios doubles off the wall
Stew scores! 2 for 4!
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Rolen's would be HR
just foul…
"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
but he draws the walk to bring up Lyle
"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
Rolen draws the free pass
setting things up for Overbay
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Lyle comes through
with the opposite way single to plate the quick Rios
"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
Overbay singles to left
3 for 5!
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Mench with the four pitch walk
a bad sign for a pitcher like Greinke
"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
ugly popup
big at-bat for Scoot again. a hit here would be big
"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
3 for 6 on the infield fly
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Scoot again!
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
4 for 7
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Scooter
the hit off the end of the bat, over Greinke to plate two more. Best third-string SS in the league?
"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 was about to ask if we were leading the league
in stranding the bases loaded.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
I'd guess
there are few offensive futility stats in which we don’t lead the league
"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
but hopefully that is all changing
and regression to the mean suggests that the trouble with our offense early this season was random and not systematic error
"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
Of course
The fact that we are scoring runs tonight could have to do with playing the Royals, rather than true regression back to the mean. We didn’t exactly rake against the Angels in the last series
Inglett grounds out to second
4 for 8. Not too shabby.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Rios tracks one down in the left center gap
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Lineout to Rolen
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Grounder to first
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Jays down 1-2-3
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Stew with the diving catch
"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
Wow, Stew just made a great rolling grab to save a run
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Rolen with the single to center
and Gathright doesn’t look good catching it on the second bounce
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
nice day for Lyle
"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
His numbers on the season
are actually beginning to resemble those of a real, live major league third baseman (OPS+=115 coming into tonight, certain to increase after a good game tonight)
RISP time!
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Mench flies out to right
4 for 9
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Zaun popup
4 for 10
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
seems like a likely Doc complete game candidate
"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
Always good to get BJ the days off post-surgery
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Doc goes 3-0 against Teahen
then gets the grounder. Sweet.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
w00t!!!
Hill just made one of the better catches I have ever seen. Webgem!!!
"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
Web Gem Nominee
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
it is transfixed
by the awesomeness of Hill’s catch
"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
nice inning from Doc
quick, the grounder and two pops
"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
11 pitches
At this rate, he’ll barely need 100 to get the CG
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Rios with a single into center
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
RISP time again
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Lyle tries his luck
against the southpaw
"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 draws the walk
to intoxicate the bases for Mench
"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
Predictions?
Mench and Zaun feeble again, Scoot gets at least 2 more RsBI?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Mench sure was
"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
Mench GIDP, but we score a run
4 for 12
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
I know we rag on Wilk
but Mench should be out too. We got him to mash lefties and he hasn’t.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
here's hoping
"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
Send him down to A ball
to rework his mechanics.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Did kind of piss me off....when JP was hired he said he could win with lower payroll
Then after a couple of years he says ‘we need more payroll’
I don't know why we'd wait until then to make both moves
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Luna's the obvious choce to go down when x comes back
but they could drop Wilk and keep Inglett in the outfield.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
And Zaun flies out
4 for 13
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
I know it hasn't been that long
but Mench and Wilkerson are really not working out, are they?
"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
Royals guys think Doc was hardheaded
and that’s why they sent him to A ball to rework his mechanics. I’d never heard anything of the sort.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
me neither
that sounds totally apocryphal. My guess is, if a young pitcher has great stuff but struggles for whatever reason, the oldsters assume he is hardheaded. It’s more likely to be consistency with mechanics and release point.
"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 if they were building new mechanics from scratch
it’s not like he was going to succeed in AAA.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
8 pitch inning
so now Doc’s on pace to be under 100 for the CG.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Jays get Doc back on the mound in short order
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
not for lack of well hit balls 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
Game
Hillenbrand’s horn sounds and the Jays are .500 again! Jays of the Day: Doc, Lyle, Scoot. Doc was cruising through the end of the 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
Getting balls in play early in the count
and not having to rely on the K.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Lesson of the game: Maybe bat Scoot higher in the lineup?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
I agree
his on-base numbers are very solid
"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
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