The Right to Grief - Game 71, Cubs at Jays
by hugo on Jun 15, 2008 1:03 PM EDT
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PrintChicago Cubs at Toronto Blue Jays, Jun 15, 2008 1:07 PM EDT
A tough game yesterday for our heroic corvids, but perhaps today will be a better day. A David Eckstein made things tough on Doc Halladay, and he surrendered a 3-run home run to old friend Reed Johnson from which the Jays were unable to recover. The Jays offense was completely punchless against the mediocre Jason Marquis.
Today's rubber match should be an interesting one. Another old friend, Theodore Roosevelt Lilly, pitches for Chicago while Jesse Litsch goes for Toronto.
By the way, Yahoo's Big League Stew is looking for advice and comments about the Rogers Centre for an upcoming article Here's an idea of what they're looking for . If you have input, please e-mail 'Duk at kduck22@gmail.com. I think he needs the info today, though. Let's go Jays!
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Tripod gets applause again
after beating the home team yesterday. Jays fans suck.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
And he flies to right
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Your link doesn't work for the Yahoo thing
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Fukudome flies to center
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Lee falls behind 0-2 then walks
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Ramirez out on an infield liner
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Rios grounds promptly to short
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Scoot shows off first pitch warning track power
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Rolen doubles the length of the inning
with a 3 pitch flyout to center.
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Litsch strikes out Edmonds
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Nice play by Rolen from behind the bag to throw out Soto
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Popup to second for a clean inning
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Wells strikes out swinging
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Mench draws a 1 out walk
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Barajas fouls off ball 4, then flies to center
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Wilk strikes out swinging
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Hoffpauir breaks up the no-no with a leadoff double
Ran out of names for him
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The Riot lines out to second
but Hoffpauir didn’t stray far enough to get doubled off
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Tripod singles to right, Hoffpauir held at third
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Fukudome singles down the right field line
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Set up by Litsch falling behind 2-0
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And Lee hits one to right on a 1-0
2-0 Cubs? Game over
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And now they're waiting for the roof to close
so that the shadows aren’t in a weird place on the mound
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Ramirez flies to right
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Johnny Mac gets to the first base side of second but can't field it
and it’s 3-0 Cubs. (Yet another 2-0 count)
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Soto flies out to right
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Career or this year?
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Actually, forget career
reasonable expectation for this year, or this year?
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I wouldn't trade Wells for Crisp or Ellsbury
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That's the tough one.....if we think Wells is the player he was last year....I'd rather have Ellsbury....
if you think Wells is the player he was the year before….is no contest….
So far this year, also no contest
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Not exactly a fair question
The Sox aren’t close to average
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Probably wouldn't trade much for Lugo
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Which Sox player isn't paid double what the comparable Jay is paid?
I guess Wells is getting more than the CFs, and Youkilis was a late starter
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Well before the season Longoria wasn't their starting third baseman
so I would have to take Rolen over whoever it was they had. (Somebody Aybar?) Gotta take x over Bartlett. Hill was a better hitter than Iwamura last year.
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Rios probably better than whatever their RF situation was
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Navarro's OPS last year was .642
so I think either of Zaun or Barajas would have been better
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guess maybe if I have a few hours I'm going to try to figure that question...if we should ahve hoped they be average....right now I only see that Hill and Rios are the two we should have hoped to be better than average....
And Rios wouldn’t be all that much better than average….there are a lot of good RFers out there
Johnny Mac draws a walk
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Rios draws a walk
Scoot grounds soft to short, only play is at second
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Scutaro was 6 inches from first
Why check on him?
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Wells pops up the first pitch and gets booed
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0 for 2 with RISP
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Litsch has another clean inning
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Wilk breaks up the no hitter with 2 outs
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The Riot drops it, but the catcher is running
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Interesting splits
Team OPS against R/L
Last year: .715/.848
This year: .734/.655
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Only Oakland is worse against lefties
and their lineup is loaded with lefties
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Well we weren't with Wells or Rolen for about a month each
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And Rolen isn't as threatening to lefties as Glaus
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Another good inning for Litsch
7 pitches
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Johnny Mac out looking in a 9 pitch at bat
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Lilly strikes out the side
and the boo birds seem to be out
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Nice sliding catch by Mench
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Soto breaks up the clean streak for Litsch
but DeRosa hits an easy grounder.
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We have 6 homers against lefties all season
Philly has forty. (Granted, park effects may be a factor.)
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Would that explain Rios's strikeouts?
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But it's not like he got bulky
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'Strike out average' percent of time he K's by season n.197, .210,.198,.160,223...
so his strike outs this year is up some but not that far up compared to before last year
They always say so
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Talk about a team loss
Right now, nobody on the team has positive WPA
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Wells reaches on The Riot's error
hardly makes up for the bases loaded popup
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Mench walks
RISP time again
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Barajas with a Scutaro-esque show of warning track power
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0 for 4
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Two straight hits
second and third with 1 out
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both on first pitches
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Cy is in
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Fukudome lines out to first
no play to double anyone up
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With the lefty out, Camp is in
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Lee singles up the middle
and again Barajas can’t catch the throw, so 2 score.
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And Ramirez hits a homer
so is Camp getting DFAed tomorrow after this Benitez-esque meltdown?
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And a third straight hit off Camp
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Camp finally gets out of it
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Zaun draws the leadoff walk
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Zaun's up to second on a wild pitch
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Mac grounds to second
Zaun up to third, but one run makes no difference at this point. 0 for 5
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Rios gets a useless sac fly
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Scutaro manages the Jays' second hit
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Joe Inglett pinch hitting for Rolen
and gets a first pitch double off the lefty
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Marmol is in
I sure hope Vernon is sitting on a slider
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Barajas has dropped below 0 WPA
making Inglett the only active Jay hitter who has added wins.
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Marmol with 4 straight fastballs to start Wells 3-1
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Another hard hit ball to Tripod
0 for 6
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Camp gives up a single, but nothing else
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Mench flies to center on a 3-2 slider
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Barajas grounds to short
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Wilk draws the 2 out walk
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And Zaun hits a first pitch homer
So now we’re… no, we’re still down by 4 with 4 outs to go.
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And Johnny Mac strikes out swinging
so 4 runs to get with 3 outs, and they’re warming up Kerry Wood.
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Fukudome grounds to short on the first pitch
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Lee strikes out on 3 pitches
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And Ramirez flies to center
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Rios with a leadoff single up the middle
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Scutaro almost beat out an infield chopper
Or he did beat it out and the ump missed it
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And Inglett singles
so that should be bases loaded nobody out, and instead is corners with 1 out
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Wells hits a meaningless sac fly
and now they tying run should be coming to the plate with 1 out, but isn’t.
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Stairs flies to left
and we’re under .500 and have lost 5 straight series.
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