Chicago Seemed Tired Last Night - Game Thread - Cubs at Jays
by hugo on Jun 13, 2008 7:01 PM EDT
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After a terrible series against the last-place Mariners, the Jays hope for some better luck with the first-place Cubs in an interleague series. Alex Rios, Scott Rolen, and Rod Barajas return to the lineup, but Aaron Hill is still out and Gregg Zaun isn't starting today either.
As for the pitchers, A.J. Burnett pitches for the Jays and looks to bounce back, while Sean Gallagher pitches for the Cubs. I'll be watching the little one, watching the game, and working all simultaneously, which should be quite interesting. Let's go Jays!
Today's title comes from the Hold Steady's theme album "Separation Sunday" which I've been listening to a bunch lately. There's something depressing and hilarious about that band.
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I think Zaun homered for Syracuse in his rehab start
We can only hope he shares a cab with Lind on the way up tomorrow.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
It's possible injuries will force JP's hand
On the Mockingbird, I was suggesting Free Adam Lind protests outside the dome akin to those for real unjustly confined prisoners.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
AJ has the socks pulled up over the powder blues
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Aj walks the riot
everything on or near the outside corner
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
And the riot steals second
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
sounds like we may need
the Stars song “Take Me to the Riot” as our game thread title tomorrow
"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
AJ strikes out Hassenpfeffer
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Burnett gets the lead runner on a comebacker from D Lee
Nice play
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Ramirez singles, Lee to third
Burnett at like 25 pitches already
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Burnett walks them loaded
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
That was a strike according to Sportsnet's tiny strike zone display
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
3 stranded on the popup to Wilk
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
AJ
gets out of 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
33 pitches
Not a good rate
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Rios with the leadoff double
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Rios starts things off
with the two-bagger
"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
Stairs strikes out
The first strike (1-0 pitch) looked like a pretty good pitch to hit.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Rolen flies out to center
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Wells pops it up to complete the 0 for 3
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
One pitch one out
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Grounder to Inglett
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Burnett strikes out the pitcher
That’s the pitcher with the .091 AVG, right?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
10 pitch inning
much better for Burnett
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Overbay strikes out on 3 pitches
I guess that kills our chance of going 0 for 27 with RISP in one game
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
The Cap'm draws a free pass
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Wilk flies out
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
nice Inglett
"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
Inglett with the 2 out single
RISP time again
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Edmonds takes it away from X
"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 4
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
good thing that went foul
"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
The Riot flies out to right
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Strikes out Horsepower
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
by the way
thanks for the Witch Hunter Robin reference. I had totally forgotten about that series after really liking it when it came out a bunch of years ago, but then netflixed it last week thinking I might be able to get Mrs. Hugo to finally watch an anime series and she loved 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
Any plans for what series to show her next?
I highly recommend Kurau: Phantom Memory.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
I was going to ask you actually
thanks for the recommendation!
"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
Depends how science-fictiony her interests run
If near future, Kurau. If far future, Crest of the Stars and its sequel series Banner of the Stars 1 and 2. If fantasy, Scrapped Princess.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
I think I'll try Kurau first
I’ve heard good things. she’s definitely more likely to go for near future sci-fi or fantasy, I think.
"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 D Lee strikes out
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
16 pitch inning that time
so 59 total?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Rios with his second double of the game
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Rios
with another double. nice piece of hitting, seems like the dingers aren’t too far off
"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
Stairs goes to the second deck
1 for 5
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
But slugging .800
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Stairs!!!!
"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 makes it back to back!
hell, when was the last time we did that this season?
"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
Have we done it at all?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
I actually don't think so
"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
Wells fails to go back to back to back
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Overbay strikes out on another high fastball
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
The Cap'm singles to left
to keep the inning alive
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Wilkerson flies to center
making his good June numbers look a little more like a small sample size artifact.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Plesac
seems like a good enough guy, but I’m not buying the Ward-Henke and Marmol-Kerry Wood comparison
"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
AJ strikes out Ramirez
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
I like how Barajas just kept his glove there
after that first pitch that missed by a mile
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
too bad we didn't sign Fukudome
he’d be great atop our lineup.
"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 much did he cost?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
I want to say around $40 million for four
so not cheap
"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 we went with Stew over Reed for a million and change
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
if we had Fukudome
and no Reed or Eckstein, that’d be not too much of a difference, at least for this season. I don’t think we’d lose too much using Scoot and Mac at SS, certainly less of a difference than having Fukudome in the OF over what we have
"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 we'd known we had this in Scoot
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
that's hindsight though
at the time, I was happy enough about Eckstein and didn’t think we had a huge hole in LF
"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
x is making $4M, right?
So assuming it was neither Reed’s $2+M nor Stew’s $1+M, that’s $7-8M, and it blocks Lind for ages, unless we play him at DH.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
I think X is $5 mil actually
I agree with you though, but only to the extent we actually use Lind. To the extent we’re blocking him with has-beens who will struggle to OPS .700 in a corner OF spot, we might at least block hiim with someone who can play.
"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
After the Fukudome single, Soto flies to left for the second out
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Edmonds with the RBI double off the wall
I thought it might be out, but it didn’t look like Rios was close to where it bounced
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Nope, on the replay it was right above his head
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
AJ
gets DeRo to hold Chicago at the one
"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
AJ's 22 pitches put him at 81
So it’ll take a few quick innings to get 6 from him.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Inglett draws the walk
I’m totally logging on to Inglett in left field at this point, once Wilk’s June numbers finish coming back to earth.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
he's a nice little bat, isn't he?
"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
x hits it right at someone again
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
when the outfielders can play 10 steps in
it makes things easy for them
"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
Of course if he splits the outfielders
he can run for days
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Rios flies out to right
no third double for him
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Stairs strands Inglett with another K
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
AJ strikes out the pitcher again
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
That means pizza, right?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
The Riot grounds to first
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Au Pair gets hit in the foot on an 0-2 count
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Running out of funny ways to screw up his name
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Meanwhile he goes to second on a wild pitch
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
that one was my favourite
"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
Walks Lee on the full count
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Ramirez grounds out to short
Burnett at 102 pitches, and Camp is warming up. That’s probably it for him.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
AJ at 101
I’m guessing Gibbons sends him out next inning
"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 not like he's been dominating
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Rolen pops up right in front of the plate
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Wells with not-quite-warning-track-power
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Not sure why Campbell is so surprised that the Cubs haven't played on turf in 2 years
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Lyle
strikes out for the third time. Taking 3 straight fastballs after going 2-0 is pretty sad
"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 none of them were close to being balls
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
yep there's AJ again
"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
Looks like you were right
The same old pull-at-first-baserunner thing?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
evidently not
"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 that was a good pitch for ball 2
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Fukudome singles
We’ll see if that’s all
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Ball 2 looked like a good pitch too
High, I guess
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Looks lik AJ shouldn't have been sent out for this inning
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
that didn't work out
Teen Wolfe in to try to quell the rally
"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
Walks Soto on the 3-2 pitch
Bringing in Wolfe to face a lefty?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Pretty much robbed AJ of JotD
lost .130 facing those two batters
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Fukudome unable to score due to the ball hitting the ump
but it’s not looking like our lead is long for this world
"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
Wolfe's success vs. lefties
and lack vs. righties seems like small sample size. He was the exact opposite last year.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
1-2-3 double play would be nice
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
gets DeRosa
swinging on the high one
"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
Eric Patterson
is a very skinny baseball player
"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
Now any old double play would do
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
they got it
but one single too late. Still, clinging to the 3-2 lead. Nicely turned by Inglett, actually
"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
Inglett close to catching that one
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
But Wolfe gets the double play to keep the lead
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Not sure why Gibby was reluctant to go to the bullpen to start the 6th
considering Doc is starting tomorrow
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
and coming off the off-day, no less
"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 should have started with Cy or Tallet
probably Cy, but Gibbons would have gone with Tallet
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Wolfe actually ends up with .099 despite the run
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Cap'm with the leadoff single
trying to get that run back
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Piniella coming out himself for a chat
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
And then finally makes the call
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
With a 1-1 count on Wilkerson
That’s got to play to the hitter’s favour, you’d think.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Is Lou
the only one who does that, other than in the case of an injury?
"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
Wilk tries for the surprise bunt
but it ends up a sac
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Scoot
comes up to hit against the lefty, which of course means Piniella is out to bring in the righty
"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
Scoot's been okay against righties, at least
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Better OBP, worse SLG, roughly equal OPS
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
up to X
"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
Looks like Accardo had a setback
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
what the hell was Pevey thinking on that?
it was painfully obvious from the moment it left the bat there was no way Rod was scoring
"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
Overcompensating?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
I'm all for
sending the runner with 2 outs in most situations, but that was ridiculous
"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
Camp in to face the lefty Hoof Powder
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
He gets him swinging
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
D Lee grounds to short
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Tabby talking about getting through this inning with Camp
so we can go to Downs and Ryan. I wish that gave me confidence.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Ramirez lines a single,
causing Gibbons to go for Cy to face Fukudome, who’s been on base quite a bit
"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
x tried to go up for it
but I think it was further than the one over Inglett’s head
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Carlson
looks great in getting Fukudome looking
"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
Cy gets him looking
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Rios was realy fooled on that 1-0 pitch
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
And the 1-1
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Takes the exact same pitch 1-2
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
And checks 2-2
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
And singles 3-2
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Always Be Çtealing
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
not a bad time for Rios to run
"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 are checking on him
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Stairs with the first pitch fly to left
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Wish he would have
instead of being knocked out on the double play
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Creeping ever closer to setting that record
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Downs looking like he'll repeat his usual pattern
of walking the first batter
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
A single on the 3-1 pitch
no better
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
And it looked like it took a tough bounce on Wilk
or he misjudged it
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Using tomorrow's starter as a pinch runner
and people called for Gibby’s head over it.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Blanco fouling off a ton of pitches
and Frasor warming.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Strikes him out
finally and at long last
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Strikes out DeRosa on a full count
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Cedeño chops out to first
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Now apparently my MLB.tv subscription fees
let me see a pro wrestler get bodyslammed by NASCAR drivers shilling shaving cream.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
25 pitches for Downs that inning
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Wells with the single to left
but with the lefty batting behind him, if Piniella goes to the pen, it will be hard to steal second.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Overbay starts 3-0
then flies to left on 3-1
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Wells steals second despite my concerns
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
The Cap'm pops up foul
In the seats anywhere else
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Maybe not Oakland
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
no insurance to be had
up to BJ
"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
Baltimore won
so if we lose we’re in last
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
not blowing this game
would be rather fun
"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
Remember when having the lead made us likely to win?
Good times, good times.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Johnny Mac in for D
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
sparky batting
"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
Don't plunk him!
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
And the crowd goes wi~~~~~ild!
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Out on the first pitch
That will make him even more popular
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
sigh
"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
Tough row to hoe after 3-0
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
alright!
BJ gets the popup to beat MLB’s winningest 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
Hooray for the Cap'm!
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
good stuff
Jays of the day: Ryan, Downs, Rios, Wolfe. Interesting that neither HR-hitter got one
"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
because both stranded Rios
or got him doubled off.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
BJ, Downs, Wolfe, and Rios?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
great day for the pen as a whole
4 innings, 4 hits, just the 1 walk, and 6 Ks
"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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