Thank You For Making Me See There's Life in Me, It Was Dying to Get Out - Game 70: Cubbies at Jays
by hugo on Jun 14, 2008 12:01 PM EDT
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The Jays have certainly bent over the past couple of weeks, but haven't broke - and yesterday was a perfect example. Since reaching their high water mark of 5 games over .500, the Jays have repeatedly dropped back to .500, but always won their next game.
Yesterday's game was a good one - On the offensive side, Alexis Rios had 2 doubles and a single, and Matt Stairs and Scott Rolen went back to back in the 3rd inning to give the Jays a 3-0 lead. A.J. Burnett battled despite not having his best stuff and picked up the win and the bullpen did a great job over the final 4 innings of the game, with Downs, B.J., Wolfe, Camp, and Cy all contributing, making the lead stand up.
Unfortunately I have to work today and so won't be able to watch the game - but it should be a quality one. On paper, the pitching matchup favors the Jays. Doc Halladay faces off against Jason Marquis. Let's go Jays!
Today's game thread brought our way by beloved Chicago band Jets to Brazil.
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Tripod grounds out on 2 pitches
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Fukudome beats him by a pitch
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Doc walks D Lee
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Strikes out Ramirez
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Rios grounds to short
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Stairs draws the free pass
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And Rolen wastes no time grounding into a double play
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Edmonds rolls to second on a 3-1
Doc missing the zone a lot so far today
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DeRosa grounds to third
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Fontenot breaks up the no hitter
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Blanko with a broken bat blooper
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From the "Mac would have had it" department
grounder chews up x
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And Tripod hits a 3 run homer
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Doc strikes out Fukudome
but he’s up to 43 pitches, and we’re down 4 runs
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Wells lines out to short
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Overbay grounds hard to Fontenot
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Barajas smokes one to center
and Edmonds drops it on the warning track for a double
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Wilk grounds to second to strand the Cap'm
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D Lee singles to lead off the third
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Ramirez flies out to center
Lee was a little far off the bag, but makes it back to avoid getting doubled off.
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Edmonds grounds through the hole
with the middle in double play position, no chance.
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Single up the middle
Wells’ throw to the plate hits Lee
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Strikes out Fontenot looking
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Doc strikes out Blanco
but gives up another run and it at 75 pitches
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And x can't earn any forgiveness with the bat
promptly grounding to third
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Voodoo Joe flies to right
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Rios pushes Fukudome to the warning track
6 pitch inning for Marquis
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Barajas' double changed to an error
so Marquis’ no hitter is intact
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Voodoo Joe with an over the shoulder grab on a Tripod bloop
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Fukudome flies to center first pitch
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5 pitch inning for Doc
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Stairs flies to Edmonds on the first pitch
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Rolen draws a walk
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Wells grounds into a double play
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Wells tries for an all or nothing play
and comes up with nothing. D Lee gets a triple.
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Doc strikes out Ramirez again
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Grounder to first, but Barajas can't corral the throw at the plate
Seems like a recent trend: Barajas blocking the plate but not catching the ball.
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DeRosa grounds to short
lead runner is easy, but not hard enough hit for two
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Grounder to first strands one
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Doc's at 95
He could probably go one more
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Overbay breaks up the no-hitter with a single up the middle
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Barajas flies to center on a ball tailing away from Edmonds
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Wilk with an easier fly to center
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x grounds deep to short
Cedeño barely beats him
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Tallet is in
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Blanco flies to center
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Cede&ntilide;o singles to left
Between talking to myself, being down 6 runs, and there being no more chance of a no-hitter, I think I’m done with this game.
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Bases loaded, nobody out in the 8th
and we finally chase Marquis and get to face Marmol
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Inglett takes until the full count then strikes out swinging
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Rios takes 4 pitches for a strikeout
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Make that 5
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At least Matt Stairs fouled off a pitch
then walked in a run
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That was our second swing of the inning
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I mean against Marmol
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And Rolen serves up a shit sandwich to the second baseman
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Oh, and let's not forget that Wells left the game with a sore wrist
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Mench hits a leadoff triple
WPA: 0.013
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Which makes him second on the team today
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Overbay hits a meaningless sac fly
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