If I Venture in the Slipstream Between the Viaducts of Your Dreams - Game 57, Jays at Angels
by hugo on May 30, 2008 9:41 PM EDT
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PrintToronto Blue Jays at Los Angeles Angels, May 30, 2008 10:05 PM EDT
Yesterday's game was a cruiser, with the Jays jumping all over Dana Eveland and the other A's pitchers. Jesse Litsch had another masterful performance to bring his record to 7-1, and although Litsch has had the most run support of any of the Jays' pitchers, 7-1 with this team's hitting is not an easy feat. The only dark spots were that Aaron Hill picked up an injury by taking a gritty elbow to the face and that Alexis Rios had a horrible day at the plate, grounding into 3 double plays (and actually it could have been four with decent fielding).
Hill sits today in favour of the mighty Marco, who seems to be playing a different position every day. The Jays have reported that he has a mild concussion and doesn't expect to miss much time, but concussions, even mild ones, can be quite tricky, so I hope the kid's taking it easy. Scutaro and Inglett are definitely capable of filling in in the short term. The Jays take on the Angels and will be looking for some revenge for the series they dropped at the Rogers Centre last week. Jared Weaver, who started slow but has been pitching better recently, pitches for LAAAA while Dustin McGowan hurls for our azure-clad heroes.
Van Morrison is always good stuff, particularly of the Astral Weeks variety. And the Jays sit at 30-26, poised to close out May very strongly, and only 3 games out of first place. Let's go Jays!!!!!
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I agree
if he’s not feeling great, he shouldn’t be flying either, that can really exacerbate a concussion
"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
might not be a bad idea to leave him in California for the Yankees' series, let him rest up a bit at home
unless he’s sure he’s fully recovered
"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
allright!
got home from work just in time for 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
Rays just walked off against the ChiSox
so no game to be gained in the division. Yankees lead the Twins by 1 in the 5th; Boston and Baltimore are tied going to the bottom of the 9th.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
although winning on the road is its own reward
"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
Get all nicely settled to watch the game and the phone rings.....
My bank wanting to tell me about a great new deal they have…..said if they want to keep my money they have to stop phoneing me about great new deals
Stew
gets it started with a hit the other way
"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 single
Continues to be on fire
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Scoot with the opposite field strategy
flies out this time
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Especially considering his double plays
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Tied for 6th
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Rios strikes out
on the 10th pitch change-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
Rolen hits it hard
and Wood can’t handle 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
It's RISP time!
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Is McGowan wearing glasses?
And not sunglasses?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Didn't look too tinted to me
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Maybe he's like Rick Vaughan?
Will the glasses help his control?
Showing my geek credentials
I was thinking Witch Hunter Robin.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
haha, nice
"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 don't get
Apparently I’m not enough of a geek
Anime series
protagonist is a witch who hunts other witches with her pyrokinesis. She has trouble with her aim until she gets glasses.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
I like the priest and the lawyer on that show
"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
hey Torgen, do you speak any Japanese?
or do you just watch the english versions?
"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 speak some Japanese
took a few courses at school. I have the second class cert; failed the first class one a few times, then forgot to sign up for it last year.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Looks like BOS and BAL are going to extras
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
nice play by Rolen
"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
w00t!!
Lyle, not fooled by that second change in a row!
"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 say you get the same pitch 3-2 as 3-1
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Wild pitch makes it RISP time
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
it's a little long, but nice, I agree
"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
Weaver's pitch count is already up to 49
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
can't help but notice that Wood
is hitting .111 over 45 at-bats, but he hasn’t been sent down so some vet could get picked up off the waiver wire
"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
What are their alternatives at 3B?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Bearing in mind that they've had a parade of infielders on the DL
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
well
they could’ve gone the Jays way and picked up some waiver wire type guy
"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
Was there a waiver wire third baseman?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
I'm sure they could've gotten someone like Aaron Boone
for no more than the Jays paid for Mench, 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
Actually the glasses look more like squash goggles
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
McGowan not getting the shutdown inning
but limiting the damage well.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Scoot not getting the memo
about driving up the pitch count
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Hunter
seems a little slow in the field tonight
"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 gets one to fall in
after another long at-bat
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Sure look to me
like Rios is uppercutting his swing a ton. Anyone else think that? I would think that this would be a fairly obvious, and fairly simple, thing for a hitting coach to fix
The Angels' colour guy thinks his crouch is too low
and he can’t get any power out of his hips.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Rolen
continues to establish his BJE credentials
"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
Gotta capitalize on that break
Stairs needs to connect on a deep fly, at least
we'll take 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
1 for 3
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
seems like he will probably settle down at some point
he’s been getting ahead of people and giving up some soft hits. Of course, he can’t last too much longer at this rate….
"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 he settles down
maybe he can go 5
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
McGowan left that slider up quite a bit
Napoli must have been looking fastball, or locked in low
"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
saw that error coming a mile away. At least Wilk got GM Junior at 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
No shutdown inning yet again
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
They have RISP with 1 out in the 12th
So it might be over soon. Are they better than the Jays with RISP?
yeah
at least one AL Beast team has to lose
"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 curve to get Vlad
giving up a run on a walk and a bunt single is pretty tough
"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 we kept the lead
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
He's still at 90 pitches
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Not a fan of these goggles so far
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
The same way Rolen was?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Sox took the lead
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
So was that 2 errors in the inning?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Scoot singles up the middle
Time for Rios to see about 9 pitches
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
RISP time
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
2 for 4
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Apparently we did not use up all our hits last night
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
In a lefty-lefty matchup
would you ever ask your power hitter to bunt if his splits were really bad?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Mosaic ruins the drama...the score goes up before you see the runners cross the plate
or in this case showed the runners on Second and Third before the Sox pulled the double steal….
Like a few weeks ago
when Fox showed a score update for a 3 run homerum in the game they were televising before it was hit.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
3 for 6
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Looks like it from the replay
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Of course that sets up the double play again
so Scoscia wished it had
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
3 for 7 plus the RBI grounder
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
4 for 8
Wilk with an oppo bloop
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
McGowan's at 76
and he hasn’t really had it, but with a 4 run lead there’s some breathing room. Do you ask him to pitch the 6th?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Depends how much you think Guerrero is going to have to DH
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Of course they had Willits
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Yeah I'd rather have a spot for Willits....I know Matthews was bad last year but you deserve that when you sign a guy because he has one good year...
Hunter won’t be good by the end of his contract
He's at 98
I don’t think so
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Pulls him after one baserunner?
It’s not like he’s been dominant.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
There is the extra day off
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Unless they push back Litsch
to avoid having him face the Yankees
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
He's not icing his arm
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Overbay taking that run back
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Now x is the only starter without a hit
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Well, he was before
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Frasor is in
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Using the anti-switch technology
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Good stuff from Tallet
Now Vlad’s homer will only be a solo shot.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Wilk with the bunt single
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
x gets Wilk over with the hit-and-run
Still no hit
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Pre-emptively getting the run back
that Benitez will give up?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
And he does!
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Can we make it double digits again?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Not this inning
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Low leverage?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Fangraphs is confused too... it doesn't have an entry for Benitez's WPA
Of course it’s probably .000
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Actually that part of the page is way behind
it doesn’t have Bootcheck in there either.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Without looking at the score, you can tell it's a blowout
the Angels guys are talking about how to wean your kids off pacifiers, based on a discussion with Rolen.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
They were talking about the pacifier fairy.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
x denied the hit
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Inglett needed about 300 more feet on that
to get us the second straight double digit margin of victory.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
I think it's safe to anoint Rolen and Overbay JsOTD
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
nice 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
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