I Can Do the Frug: Game Thread, Royals at Jays
by hugo on May 25, 2008 10:53 AM EDT
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PrintKansas City Royals at Toronto Blue Jays, May 25, 2008 1:07 PM EDT
Well, being over .500 feels pretty darn good. Jesse Litsch was spectacular yesterday and the Jays scored plenty of runs en route to an easy victory. Litsch ptiched a complete game shutout and just did a great job, although his streak of consecutive innings without a walk finally came to an end (but not before passing Jimmy Key (my favourite all-time Jay) for the Jays all-time record. Brad Wilkerson hit a 1st inning grand slam and Lyle Overbay reached 4 times in four trips to the plate (11 straight appearances, a Jays record of his own that's still going
Today, Dustin McGowan pitches against Gil Meche, who hasn't been very good this season after putting together a great season last year. McGowan really needs to get on track with a good start, as he's been fairly shaky recently. Matt Stairs is back in the lineup after missing a few days with a stiff neck, and it's great to welcome him back.
I'm not sure how much of the game I'll get to watch, as I'm taking my daughter for a hike right now. I'll definitely be around for the second half or so, though. Let's go Jays!
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Easy fly to left for the first out
then a single (you guessed it) up the middle.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Bloop single to left center
Two on, one out. Looking for the ground ball.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
got in just in time
to see McGowan strike out Guillen
"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
Strikes out Guillen for the second out
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Dustin
growing the chops 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
I thought his wife didn't like them
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
I guess she gave in
"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
Running our pitchers' scoreless streak to 18 consecutive innings
all by starters.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
nice job to come back to get Butler to bounce out
after the count was at 3-1
"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
obviously trying to get revenge on Pevey for getting him thrown out yesterday
"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 with the leadoff infield single
that’s been working out pretty well this weekend.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Hit and Run on the 1-0 count
but Hill has to foul off the high pitch.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Hill jackknifes out the the way of a belt-high inside pitch
Jamie: “In at the knees”
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Hill grounds out
but Stew was going on the full count, so it’s RISP time!
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
for Rios
who has pounded Meche over his career
"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 this time
though that was a pretty tough call
"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 strikes out looking on the outside corner on the full count
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
But BJE
hits a solid gapper to give the Jays the lead!
"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
1 for 2
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
1 for 3 on the Stairs fly ball
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Lyle with the nice move
Scoot drops it on the transfer, but the Jays get the lead runner
"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
whoa
you don’t see that everyday.
"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 then the caught stealing on the missed hit and run
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Overbay set the record!
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
he now has 32 Walks and 35 Ks, pretty impressive
and his OBP is back over .400
"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
Lyle alone with the Jays record
draws the walk on the 3-2 count
"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
Scutaro flies barely into the CF shadows
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Scutaro
drilled that one to center, but Gathright came up with 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
Peña makes a nice play up the middle
with the flip barely beating Overbay to the bag for the force.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Strikes out Gathright
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
you'd think that
a guy who is athletic enough to jump over a car could figure out a way to get himself on base. but I guess that’s what’s great about baseball
"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 that's why he was showing bunt
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Pops up Dejesus
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Strikes out German looking
20 straight scoreless innings.
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Rios walks
definite progress, as I think he would’ve swung at that last pitch a week ago
"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 draws the 2 out walk
Will he try get into scoring position for Rolen?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Another fly ball to the shadows in center
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Gordon strikes out
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Guillen with the 1 out double
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Rios guns down Guillen at the plate
on a single (where else) up the middle
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tough to imagne
a better throw than that
"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
Did you see the one Erstad made for the walk off double play?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
I didn't
was it pretty sweet?
"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
Bases loaded, one out
Lazy fly to left, and Erstad guns down Feliz at the plate in a 1 run game.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
McGowan runs the streak to 21 scoreless innings
the hard way.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Lyle's streak ends
"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
McGowan gives up another single
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
And now a bunt single
Two on, no out
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And Gathright bunts with two strikes
and gets a single out of it
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Sac fly double play
Run scores, but Stewart throws out Peña at third.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
And strikes out German
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
I wish we could score even one with the bases loaded and no out
of course we only have 2 hits this game to the Royals’ 8, so it’ll take some work to even get that chance.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Wilkerson with the leadoff double
RISP time!
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Barajas sneaks a single through the infield
Wilkerson up to third. 2 for 4, but only 1 run. Still no out.
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Stew with an RBI groundout
with the relay thrown away, so no double play.
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So I guess that means 2 for 5
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Hill strikes out looking on the full count
Stew safe at second. RISP time again for Rios
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Rios strikes out on the 3-2 curve
2 for 6
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And we're all getting pizza
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1-2-3 for McGowan
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79 pitches through 6
so he’d have to pitch his brains out over the last 3 to get our third straight complete game, and even then Gibbons wouldn’t be crazy to go to BJ if it was still close.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
yeah no real reason to push McGowan and save the pen
after the two straight complete games, though they do have a getaway game tomorrow and a tough road trip coming up
"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
Aw geez, they're doing the wave
Rolen flies to right
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Stairs hits an infield single
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Stairs beats out the infield single
"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
Lyle drilled that
Gathright ran it down in the shadows
"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
Gload backed up pretty awkwardly on that Scutaro fly, it looked like
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
And Meche is at 115 pitches
so we probably won’t see him in the 7th.
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Buck leadoff single
up the middle again.
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Hard to go up the middle with a man on first
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Wilkerson didn't look
like he was particularly hustling on that
"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
lots of grounders that inning
nice job by McGowan
"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
Gibby gives McGowan the handshake
so I guess Downs will be in.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Barajas is the only Jay to reach base twice today
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Stew joins that exclusive club
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Gibby
shows restraint by not going to the pinch-runner when Big Rod reaches
"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
2 for 7 with RISP now
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Rios!
the liner up the middle to double the Jays’ lead!
"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'm still waiting for the power to come back
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
3 for 8
with the Rios RBI single to CF
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Gordon's mistake proves costly
Hill definitely hit that hard enough, and right at Gordon, for 2 to be turned
"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 9
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Gathright bunts it right to Overbay, who applies the tag
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German smokes one... wait for it...
up the middle
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a bit of an adventure for Inglett
on the routine fly out. Downs with another effective outing
"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 they like Inglett
and are giving him a chance to stick with the team after Wells goes down?
"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
over Wilkerson, not Stewart, I mean
"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
They've both been heating up of late
Obviously hitting a salami helps.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
plus the Jays can keep sending Inglett up and down
once Stew or Wilkerson is gone, they’re gone.
"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 a double today
that he ended up scoring the go-ahead
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Gordon flies out to Inglett
3 outs away
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RISP time again after that throwing error
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3 for 10
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3 for 11
Not for want of getting hit hard.
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did Marcum grow up a Royals fan or Cards?
I assume Royals, since I remember him saying he was a KC Chiefs fan
"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
Born in KC
I think Excelsior Springs is closer to KC.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Beej 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
3 for 12
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
BJ strikes out Guillen
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
nice pitch!
"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 one by Scooter
MacDonald-esque
"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
he was this good two years ago, no?
"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
BJ locks it down
Jays Win!
"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
McGowan is obviously JotD
but the hits and RBIs were spread among the offense, so nobody else was over .100.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
We go for the sweep tomorrow
Marcum v. Tomko. Jays of the Day for today: Dustin, with Barajas, Downs, and Ryan meriting honourable mention
"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
M's are bringing in Putz for a 6 out save
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