Won't You Stand Up For Hearts of Oak? Game 54, Jays at Oakland
by hugo on May 27, 2008 9:32 PM EDT
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Ted Leo is pretty much teh awesoem. What can I say, he brings out the fanboy in me.
Anyway, the Jays are riding high after a 4-game sweep of the Royals, a 5-game winning streak overall. The pitching was fantastic, but, even better, the hitting twice managed 7 runs against a Kansas City team that really doesn't pitch all that badly. The Jays now stand only 4 games out of first, currently occupied by the Rays, and 3 1/2 games from the wildcard, currently occupied by Boston. The As are the only other team between the Jays and the wildcard leader, so they should be an interesting opponent.
Tonight, A.J. Burnett goes up against Greg Smith, the lefty who already shut the Jays down once this season. David Eckstein makes his return to the lineup, playing short and hitting 9th, Aaron Hill is back after a one-day breather to rest a sore groin, and true to Gibby's word, Marco Scutaro gets to stay in the lineup against the lefty, in leftfield. Kevin Mench gets the start in the middle of the lineup and my guess is that he's running out of chances to impress the Jays as a lefty-killer. Let's go Jays!!!
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thanks, A's broadcast
showing Scott Rolen’s career Runs Scored total really helps me gauge his performance
"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
How many runs has he scored?
Sportsnet neglected to give me that critical piece of information
967 according to their broadcast
"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
Eckstein fumbles his first chance back from the DL
I didn’t miss the adventures at SS
He did get the out, however
Sorry, I should have mentioned that
Lyle should've come up with 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
Definitely
Though there was little excuse for the throw to be anywhere near the dirt. That was as routine a play as they come.
There's the Frank we know and love
Can’t catch up to two straight AJ fastballs after getting ahead 3-1
Burnett
gets the Hurt after falling behind 3-1 to bail out Lyle, but mostly to bail out J.P.
"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
an unimpressing inning for the Jays' hitters
"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
haha, unimpressing
I’m tired
"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
Since I'm new here, a question of BBB etiquette
What is the policy on producing a play-by-play of each game in the game thread? Most, if not all the game threads in which I have participated have had one person mainly responsible for keeping a running tab of pretty much each at bat. Is there a rule about doing this and deciding who is responsible for it, or is it more just if someone feels like it?
hmmmm
it’s not something I can remember us ever discussing before, but it definitely makes sense to have just one person doing the running play-by-play. That said, if no one does a play-by-play and people just chime in when they feel like it, that works too. Ironically, it’s a bit like baseball announcers and their “play-by-play” and colour guy breakdown
"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
Weird play
Brown steals second, then comes all the way round to score when the ball bounces off his leg into left field and noone picks it up in time.
AJ
is a bit snakebitten already today, that was crazy
"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
Ya, quite a freak play
Aside from that, he’s pitched pretty well. Though between a few baserunners and 5 strikeouts through 2 innings, he’s already at 41 pitches
AJ
gets out of the inning allowing only the one, by striking out the side
"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
baserunner!
"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
0 for 1
A no tagup from Scooter on the flyout to right
what's the eta
on Eckstein returning to the leadoff spot?
"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
Knowing Gibby
His one hit tonight will be enough to convince the manager that he has turned it around
yeah
I’m also going to guess tomorrow, but it’s not like anyone else has taken the job and run 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
Scooter has been hitting great of late
I would be happy seeing if he can keep it up in the leadoff spot, and I’d like to see Lyle at #2. If Scooter can’t do it, then we can rethink things in 10 games or so, but like you said, noone (especially not Scrappy) is exactly running away with the job so it couldn’t hurt.
I'd be up for trying Scooter as well
but It’ll be interesting to see if he gets to stay in the lineup against righties. If the Jays would rather have a righthanded utility infielder in the outfield than Wilkerson, a lefty hitting corner outfielder, against righties, what’s the case for keeping Wilkerson on the 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
Hopefully
There is no case and he will be released. I’m not sure what the chances of that happening are, though, given Gibbons apparently man-crush on Wilk.
More likely, methinks, is that Scooter goes back to the bench (maybe playing vs LHP like we see today) and we see more of WJSDA
in all honesty
I think we all know in the long run that extended playing time for Scutaro or Inglett in a corner outfield spot is not the answer, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not a better choice than Wilkerson. I mean, 1/4 of his fly balls are infield pop ups. That’s stunningly bad, particularly coupled with the fact that he strikes out almost 30% of the 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
I'm not going to pretend
that Scutaro is a legitimate major league corner outfielder (though, the way he’s been playing lately, he’s been an excellent SS). The problem is, not many, if any, players on the Jays’ roster are. And Wilkerson is the worst of the lot.
Rios is the closest thing we have, though his .700 OPS so far this season calls that into question. Stairs can hit vs RHP, but is more suited to DH anyway.
Given what we have, Scooter is probably the best better for now (though not necessarily long term).
0 for 2
another fly to right, another non-tag up from Scooter
0 for 3
Runner on first and second, 3 straight flies to right (first one medium depth, other two fairly deep) and no runs
AJ gets out of the 3rd
Two Ks, double (by Hurt), single, and fly out
7 Ks through 3, but pitch count is pretty high
at least the pen
is pretty well rested after the Royals series.
"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
Thomas
smoked that one pretty well. A.J. stranded two again, 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
3 pitches, 2 outs for AJ
followed by a 4 pitch walk and a double. 2-0 A’s
Burnett falls apart
walks Suzuki for no apparent reason on 4 pitches, than gives up two straight RBI hits
"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
Burnett gets Cust
to finally end the inning, but 3-0 now
"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 done fellas
way to make him work for 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
nice play 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
Big Rod 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
glad we sat Zaun
after his big day 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
that inning was fairly depressing
"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
ah 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
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