I Want to Rest My Heavy Head Tonight on a Bed of California Stars - Game 55, Jays at A's
by hugo
on May 28, 2008 9:14 PM EDT
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Toronto Blue Jays @ Oakland Athletics
Today's title, of course comes from a great track off the now classic "Mermaid Avenue" project whereby Wilco and Billy Bragg did some recordings of some unfinished and (mostly) never-recorded Woody Guthrie songs. The title comes from the street Woody Guthrie lived on in Brooklyn, NY (that part of Coney Island is right on the ocean and has lots of nautically named streets)
The Jays came up short yesterday in a frustrating game. A.J. Burnett can't be saddled with too much blame, since he pitched reasonably well and was victimized by some shoddy fielding and bad luck, but what turned out to be the winning run reached base on a 2-out, 4 pitch walk to the number 9 hitter, and that's never good. The Jays again showed that they are utterly incapable of hitting lefthanded pitching for the most part, and had lots of ugly at-bats. Oh yeah, Frank Thomas left the game with a quad strain and is day-to-day.
Today's matchup is a great one for those who love good pitching. Victoria BC's Rich Harden faces off against adopted hero of Toronto Roy Halladay. I'm one who would absolutely love to see Harden play for the Jays someday. I know he has had tons of injury problems, but when he's healthy he can really pitch, and perhaps if he ever becomes consistently healthy it will actually be a benefit that his arm hasn't had many innings in his youth. If you have depth, it's not such a bad thing to have an injury-prone player or two with high upside, as long as you also have guys who are a good risk to throw 200 innings or play 145 games. Let's go Jays
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Wilks back in.....figured Eck would play the first two games back and sit the third one....
And Barajas is in vs the RHP
by Tom Dakers on
May 28, 2008 10:07 PM EDT
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weird inning so far
between making suzuki bunt on 2 strikes and the last baserunning play
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by hugo on
May 28, 2008 11:52 PM EDT
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let's see
if Scoot, Wilkerson, and Barajas can get some hits
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by hugo on
May 28, 2008 11:53 PM EDT
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little blast from the past here
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by hugo on
May 28, 2008 11:55 PM EDT
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Scooter takes him to the wall
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by hugo on
May 28, 2008 11:56 PM EDT
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barajas is already a JoD for that great tag at the plate earlier....
by Tom Dakers on
May 28, 2008 11:59 PM EDT
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yeah it was a nice play by Overbay as well
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:00 AM EDT
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Cust wins the at-bat
lines the curveball into right for a leadoff single after running up Doc’s pitch count
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:08 AM EDT
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nice
Doc goes back to the curve to get Sweeney swinging
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:10 AM EDT
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Scoot with the fancy glove flip
barehand grab by Hill, but no time to get 2
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:11 AM EDT
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of course
Davis is fairly likely to run on Doc
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:12 AM EDT
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yep he did
Rod almost threw him out, but called safe
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:13 AM EDT
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Thought he was out....close on teh steal
by Tom Dakers on
May 29, 2008 12:13 AM EDT
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throw beat him
a little too far on the SS side, but I still thought he might’ve been out
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:14 AM EDT
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doesn't matter
as Doc goes back to the well one more time to get Brown swinging on the big curve. That better be all for Doc
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:14 AM EDT
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Yeah looked like he was tiring to me....
by Tom Dakers on
May 29, 2008 12:15 AM EDT
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the first priority has got to be to protect his arm
after 115 or so pitches this game. But you’re right, he’s needed the curve a lot tonight and has to be tired. one mistake with that pitch and a HR Is likely
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:16 AM EDT
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there must be teams
where that statement wouldn’t be a joke
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:17 AM EDT
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nice work Stew!
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:19 AM EDT
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Hill bunts him over
certainly not a way to get 5 runs in an inning
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:20 AM EDT
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time for Lexi to drive him in!
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:21 AM EDT
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oh yeah!
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:23 AM EDT
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the A's guys said he was
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:24 AM EDT
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walking stairs to face overbay, it looks like
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:26 AM EDT
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well, let's see if BJ can nail it down
against the bottom of the order
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:29 AM EDT
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Inglett in left again for Stewart
I’d like to see Gibbons’ diagram of outfield fielding skill at different positions
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:32 AM EDT
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Stewart then a statue....then anyone without broken legs....
by Tom Dakers on
May 29, 2008 12:33 AM EDT
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either that or
Gibby has just decided to pretend that Inglett is a left-handed hitting Reed Johnson. They look a tiny bit similar
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:36 AM EDT
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Inglett sure isn't smooth out there is he.....but might have more range
by Tom Dakers on
May 29, 2008 12:37 AM EDT
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Gibbons must also want
his arm in the event of a play at the plate, I’d imagine
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:37 AM EDT
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not a good start
B.J. walks Ellis.
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:32 AM EDT
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BJ seems wild
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:35 AM EDT
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thought Ryan
had him with that 2-2 pitch
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:38 AM EDT
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crap
walks him, now up to Crosby
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:38 AM EDT
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w00t!
B.J. definitely wasn’t at his best today, but got it done, barely!
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:40 AM EDT
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the Rays won again
as did the Yankees, but Boston lost 1-0 to Seattle
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:40 AM EDT
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Jays of the Day:
Doc, Rios, B.J., Stew.
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:41 AM EDT
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I'd give Barajas one for that tag at the plate....needed that
by Tom Dakers on
May 29, 2008 12:42 AM EDT
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good point, that's a definite honourable mention
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:43 AM EDT
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Rios hasn't gotten one in so long
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:44 AM EDT
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we must be on pace
for some ridiculously low numbers in both runs scored and runs allowed. one would think that neither would be able to continue, but which one is more of a fluke at this point?
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May 29, 2008 12:43 AM EDT
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Not sure....I don't think the offense is really doing that much worse than it should be doing....
when scoot is a corner outfielder you know you ain’t the 27 yankees
by Tom Dakers on
May 29, 2008 12:44 AM EDT
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I wonder what would have to happen to have them call up Lind? a plain crash?
by Tom Dakers on
May 29, 2008 12:47 AM EDT
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I've gotta think
that they will, once Wells returns and Lind is only needed in leftfield – if Wilkerson hasn’t turned things around by then, gotta think he’ll be gone
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:48 AM EDT
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on the other hand, our pitching doesn't seem ridiculously out of whack either
Marcum and Litsch might regress a little, but there’s plenty of room for improvement from A.J, and some from Dustin. And our bullpen should continue to be effective.
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May 29, 2008 12:48 AM EDT
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Wouldn't guess camp and Carlson would be that good...and downs has been amazing...
And Ryan’s been great too, coming back from injury
by Tom Dakers on
May 29, 2008 12:50 AM EDT
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well but Camp's ERA is 4.38
and Benitez’s is 6. I think Wolfe and Accardo will be an improvement on that (and Accardo hopefully when healthy will improve on his numbers from earlier this season, so that’d be an improvement. And League likely will have something left to say this season too.
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:53 AM EDT
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yeah but camp was 7.11 or something last year....so 4's is lot better than I would have thought
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May 29, 2008 12:54 AM EDT
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definitely
I’m just thinking in terms of what we can expect overall from the pitchers for the rest of the season. I agree the bullpen won’t be able to keep this up, but there will likely be some areas of improvement to partially offset some of the regression
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:55 AM EDT
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Aren't 5 of Camp's runs all from one inning?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
by Torgen on
May 29, 2008 2:33 AM EDT
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I had not realized that
Zaun was DLed today with an elbow injury. Crap
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:51 AM EDT
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Thigpen was apparently called up.
I must have missed that
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:52 AM EDT
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What? why didn't Jamie say something
by Tom Dakers on
May 29, 2008 12:53 AM EDT
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I don't know, the A's guys didn't mention it either
here’s the link Weird that Thigpen was called up when it was Diaz last time, and Thigpen has been brutal at AAA this season. But maybe his ability to play other positions will help out
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by hugo on
May 29, 2008 12:55 AM EDT
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Diaz is on the DL
as is Kevin Nelson.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
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May 29, 2008 1:37 PM EDT
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Well
it’s 1 am here. I’m going to go crash. Night!
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May 29, 2008 12:57 AM EDT
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