Navigation: Jump to content areas:


Pro Quality. Fan Perspective.
Login-facebook
Around SBN: PHOTOS: Mike Moser's Dunk Face Is Spectacular

No One in This World Ever Gets What They Want and That is Beautiful: Game 34, Rays at Jays

Tampa Bay Rays at Toronto Blue Jays, May 7, 2008 7:07 PM EDT


I'm hoping this is the last They Might Be Giants title for the season and that the Jays can get back to .500 soon. Yesterday, they came up just short, with A.J. Burnett having ths stuff for a dominant start but just not being able to get it done, and the Jays offense coming up just short. It was a frustrating game, and the worst part wasn't the Scutaro dp, or Wells getting picked off, or the numerous first-pitch outs, but the fact that both David Eckstein and John MacDonald hurt themselves and had to leave the game. Eckstein appeared to strain his groin, while Mac's injury looked like it could be more serious. On the plus side, Tallet was good, Camp was great, and Lyle looked locked in at the plate, walking, sharply singling, hitting a long sacrifice fly, and just missing a HR when his RBI double bounced off the top of the dead centerfield wall and back into play.

The Jays look to strike back tonight as two fine young pitchers face off. Matt Garza goes for Tampa while Shaun Marcum looks to keep his excellent season going for the Jays. Marcum's Whip is under 1 and he's struck out an impressive 35 in 40 innings, while only walking 15.

I won't be around for lineups today, as I'm playing softball after work. But I'll be back for most of the game. Let's go Jays!

Comment 149 comments  |  0 recs  | 

Do you like this story?

Comments

Display:

With Stew the starting LF and Lind struggling

Lind was sent back to AAA and Jorge Velandia brought up as Shortstop insurance. Velandia sucked for years, disappeared for a while, then came back with good numbers in limited appearances last year with Tampa last year. He’s been hitting pretty well (.900 OPS) against RHP in AAA despite being a righty.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 5:44 PM EDT reply actions  

Scutaro gets the start tonight, though

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 7:11 PM EDT up reply actions  

Marcum fields his position

on an Iwamura tapper on the 3B side.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 7:10 PM EDT reply actions  

Crawford hits it hard to Overbay

who relays it to Marcum just in time

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 7:11 PM EDT reply actions  

Bossman Junior strikes out looking

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 7:13 PM EDT reply actions  

Rios grounds out to short on the 1-0 pitch

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 7:16 PM EDT reply actions  

Stew gets as far as 2-2 before grounding to short

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 7:18 PM EDT reply actions  

Rolen doubles into the left field corner

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 7:19 PM EDT reply actions  

Stairs draws the 2 out walk

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 7:21 PM EDT reply actions  

Wells grounds out to second on the 3-1 count

0 for 1

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 7:23 PM EDT reply actions  

Marcum strikes out Peña

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 7:27 PM EDT reply actions  

Longoria strikes out too

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 7:28 PM EDT reply actions  

The crowd goes wild

over the Hinske strikeout, Marcum’s 4th straight.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 7:31 PM EDT reply actions  

Overbay strikes out

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 7:35 PM EDT reply actions  

Hill flies to left

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 7:36 PM EDT reply actions  

Missed a whole half inning talking to a co-worker

Marcum apparently gave up a single to Navarro, who was thrown out at second; he also got his fifth strikeout.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 7:49 PM EDT reply actions  

Scutaro singles

Why couldn’t he do that yesterday with two men on?

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 7:50 PM EDT reply actions  

Rios singles to right

RISP time, with nobody out.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 7:51 PM EDT reply actions  

Stew grounds slowly to third

0 for 2, but the runners advance.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 7:52 PM EDT reply actions  

Rolen flies out shallow to right

Runner can’t score. 0 for 3.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 7:54 PM EDT reply actions  

Stairs pops up to second

0 for 4

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 7:55 PM EDT reply actions  

Iwamura grounds to second on a full count

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 7:58 PM EDT reply actions  

Marcum fields a Crawford chopper on the first base side

also on a 3-2 count

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 8:01 PM EDT reply actions  

Bossman Junior grounds to third on the first pitch

which I didn’t see because of my terrible work windows laptop not having the CPU power to display mlb.tv without going into stuttering fits every few minutes.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 8:01 PM EDT reply actions  

Wells grounds softly to third

Longoria playing too deep to even bother making a play.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 8:05 PM EDT reply actions  

Overbay flies out to the left field track

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 8:08 PM EDT reply actions  

Hill pops up to third

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 8:09 PM EDT reply actions  

Barajas flies out to left

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 8:11 PM EDT reply actions  

Peña strikes out for a 6th straight time

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 8:15 PM EDT reply actions  

Marcum fields another tapper

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 8:15 PM EDT reply actions  

Hinske flies to left

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 8:16 PM EDT reply actions  

Scutaro flies out short of the track in center

Why couldn’t he do that with runners at first and third with one out yesterday?

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 8:20 PM EDT reply actions  

Rios draws a walk

Hopefully he can steal second.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 8:22 PM EDT reply actions  

Navarro trickles one to first

Overbay handles it easily

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 8:27 PM EDT reply actions  

Gross grounds to first

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 8:29 PM EDT reply actions  

Bartlett flies to right

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 8:30 PM EDT reply actions  

Rolen doesn't take advantage of a 3-2 count

popping up foul

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 8:35 PM EDT reply actions  

Stairs strikes out on the 10th pitch

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 8:38 PM EDT reply actions  

Wells grounds to third on the first pitch

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 8:39 PM EDT reply actions  

Good thing it's too late to jinx it

Jamie noting that Marcum has no-hit stuff.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 8:43 PM EDT reply actions  

Crawford strikes out

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 8:43 PM EDT reply actions  

And now falling behind Peña

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 8:47 PM EDT reply actions  

We'd better get the lead

Hinske’s due up next inning.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 8:48 PM EDT reply actions  

RISP time!

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 8:57 PM EDT reply actions  

1 for 5, at least

and it’s still RISP time

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 9:00 PM EDT reply actions  

Marcum's 8th strikeout

You think Pizza Pizza wants to up the pizza threshold?

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 9:08 PM EDT reply actions  

I think it's 7

but that might have been when the pitching wasn’t expected to be good.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 9:10 PM EDT up reply actions  

Well the alternative is BJ

who didn’t look that sharp in his last outing, and even if he can go on alternating days, I don’t think I would have him go every other day ad infinitum. (Not sure he can really go on consecutive days yet, despite what they said.)

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 9:13 PM EDT up reply actions  

We came into this game 3rd in the majors in Ks

2 behind Oakland.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 9:12 PM EDT reply actions  

Cinci is first

which I guess is good for them, with the hitters’ park they play in.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 9:15 PM EDT up reply actions  

Stew draws the 4 pitch walk

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 9:16 PM EDT reply actions  

Of coure BJ is going to come in

because they don’t want to warm him up and then sit him back down, but I’d feel better about Marcum finishing the game now.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 9:19 PM EDT up reply actions  

Catching snippets of the Sportsnet commercials

makes me miss Canadian restaurants. Why can’t we have Harvey’s or Swiss Chalet down here? Or Tim Horton’s west of I-75?

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 9:20 PM EDT reply actions  

SF bay area

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 9:22 PM EDT up reply actions  

A long way from good donuts and double doubles.....

The A’s look a lot better this season than I thought they’d be

by Tom Dakers on May 7, 2008 9:24 PM EDT up reply actions  

Stopped at Timmy's Monday....

The girl behind the counter had a badge that said “Princess’ and under that ‘In Training’....thought that was cool….Asked what you had to do to be a Princess in training…..she said her name was Princess and she was training at Tim’s.

by Tom Dakers on May 7, 2008 9:31 PM EDT up reply actions  

Krispy Kreme coffee sucks

and the glazed is their only good donut.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 9:29 PM EDT up reply actions  

Overbay might have cost BJ a save

with that double to put us in RISP time again.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 9:28 PM EDT reply actions  

2 for 7

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 9:32 PM EDT reply actions  

We're so close to 100% WP that we can pretty much call the JotD

as Marcum (.577) and Scutaro (.136)

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 9:34 PM EDT reply actions  

He lost a bunch of WPA early.

He’s net -.010 for the game.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 9:36 PM EDT up reply actions  

Barajas makes us 3 for 8

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 9:36 PM EDT reply actions  

4 for 9 courtesy Scoot

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 9:40 PM EDT reply actions  

4 for 10 courtesy the Rios double play

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 9:43 PM EDT reply actions  

Rolen-esque

Furthering his Best Jay Ever credentials.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 9:47 PM EDT up reply actions  

Oh no, a second hit

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 9:49 PM EDT reply actions  

Peña strikes out swinging for the 7th time this series

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 7, 2008 9:56 PM EDT reply actions  

Comments For This Post Are Closed


User Tools

Welcome to the SB Nation blog about our heroic azure-tinged corvidae, the Toronto Blue Jays.

FanPosts

Community blog posts and discussion.

Recommended FanPosts

Small
Bluebird Banter, Make Recs blue!
Download_small
BBB Fantasy League #2
Oh_god_small
[benk's Honours Paper] The Economics of Performance-Enhancing Drugs in North American Professional Baseball
Fuzzygrue-1_small
The Reply Fail Discussion Thread
Small
BBB Fantasy League(s)

Recent FanPosts

Brett_lawrie_small
Best move AA has made yet (poll)
Small
BBB Community #15(2) Overall Prospect - David Cooper vs. Chad Jenkins
Brett_lawrie_small
Mike Napoli Trade
Ballin_small
Fast Forward to 2013
Small
2012 Spring Training
Cappy_1_small
Non-Keeper Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball League
Small
Keith Law's Top 10 Jay's Prospects (ESPN Insider Content)

+ New FanPost All FanPosts >


Managers

Bluejayperched_small hugo

Rincewind-1_small Tom Dakers

Assistant Manager

Smith_up_small JohnnyG

Authors

Hiro_small jessef

Profile_small masterkembo

Profiel_small Woodman663

Minorleaguer_small Minor Leaguer

Moderators

Tony_fernandez_small TonyFernandezSavedMyLife

Aejfuulciaar18g_small Bowling_Guy25