Troubled Times Had Come to My Hometown - Game 63, Orioles at Jays
by hugo on Jun 6, 2008 6:31 PM EDT
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It's another evening of inter-avian warfare as the Orioles come to T.O. to take on the Jays. The Jays are reeling a bit after a tough series with the Yankees in which they were just a few outs away from winning the series despite a poor start from Dustin McGowan, who is starting to worry me. Even though I took a bet at the beginning of the season (for which I was ridiculed quite a bit, and which I still might lose) that Marcum would conclude the season with a lower ERA than McGowan, I didn't expect McGowan to be bad.
Anyway, B.J. Ryan came in to blow his second-straight save, and it was an ugly one. He gave up 3 runs in the bottom of the 9th and the Jays had dropped the series. It was a tough roadtrip, so the Jays are hoping that a trip back to the Rogers Centre will put them back on the right track. It was always going to be a hard roadtrip, and 4-5 isn't the worst one could expect. We all know B.J. was not looking lights out every night just because he was 12-12 in save opportunities, so blowing one at some point was going to happen.
The Jays are still reeling from some injuries, however. Aaron Hill has still not been able to play so the Jays are playing a man down. Rod Barajas is banged up and looked absolutely awful on Thursday (I'm told, by my brother, who was at the game), so a day off would seem to be in order. Gregg Zaun, Vernon Wells, John MacDonald, and Jeremy Accardo are on the mend, though. And Brian Wolfe has returned to find there is no room at the inn. With no one on the big-league club to be sent down, Wolfe, who made the team out of spring training, was optioned to Syracuse.
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Hope today's game is better than yesterday's....though really there is no way it could be worse.
I see Barajas is in the line up….I wish they’d give him the day off, had a rough one yesterday and Hill isn’t in the line up. Is looking more and more like he should go on the DL.
Marcum gets the double play to eliminate the single
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
hey everyone
finally got out of work at a semi-decent hour, but the outlaws are in town so posting will be spotty tonight. Let’s go Jays!!!
"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
Marcum gets in a bit of trouble with a hit and a walk, but strands 2
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
More like good luck to this point?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
If Scott had played the Carom well I think he might have been toast
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Not sure why I capitalized carom
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Note to Tabler
if the Jays were hitting 3 run homers, they would be hitting with RISP.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Who needs to ground to the right side?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Everyone challenges their suspensions
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Overbay draws the walk
Hope Barajas has his swing back.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Nice RBI for the Cap'm
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Wilkerson joins the Hit Parade
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
x shows off the warning track power
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Stew grounds out to Mora to strand 2
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Man of Steeles walks Markakis with 2 outs and strands him.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
But if he knew, why sign him to the long term deal?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
So you think he's guessing that Rios's power dropoff is from not juicing
without having known at the time that he was?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
The scouts said he'd grow into his power
Is that a knowing wink from the scouts?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Rios takes third
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Think Burres is vulnerable to the steal of home?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Sac fly scores Rios, moves Rolen to second
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Barajas tried the pickoff at first
and on the next pitch catches Bynum stealing
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
so far so good
"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
He's not in there to hit righties.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Not well
and I don’t expect he’s long for the team considering Wells is making rehab starts, but for his career he’s never been good against righties.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
I suspect they'll keep the lefty bat
If Hill needs to go on the DL that may hold a spot for one of them.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
And then Roberts misses the tag on the failed hit and run
giving him a stolen base.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
And then held at third on the single up the middle
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
96 pitches?
Maybe let him start the inning and pull him when he allows a baserunner.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Seattle is crushing the Sox
I know you can’t really use up all your hits, but I hope they use up all their hits this weekend. Everyone else got to play them while they still sucked.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Markakis breaks up the shutout
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Tallet has thrown exactly one good pitch so far tonight
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
and it was the 3-0 pitch
so Mora was going to be taking all the way
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Here comes Benitez
If only we had the depth to let him go for Wolfe.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
That's the first hit Benitez has allowed to a righty
and what an ass time for it.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
And x's error isn't going to help
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
I don't think we can even bring Wolfe up
because we just activated him and sent him down
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Thought it was 10 days, but I'm not sure
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
At least he hasn't balked yet
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
And now he gets strikeouts
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
I don't think we've come back in the 9th this year
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Barajas with the leadoff walk
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Wilkerson with the bunt single
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
And the wild pitch when x was trying to bunt
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
The pinch hitter mid-at-bat
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
C'mon Inglett
Fly ball to tie it up. Or a single.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Oh wait, Stew was DH
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
He was having such a good May
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
And now a Markakis double and a Mora IBB
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
He laid off that pitch 0-2
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Almost had that double
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Rolen with the weak grounder
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Good time for an Overbay double
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Or a homer
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Hard to call anyone up in time for a day game tomorrow
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Marcum, Camp, Barajas, and Wilkerson denied the JotD
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
We could call up Brandon League
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Benitez
Of course League gave up 5 runs in 2 innings on Wednesday after 5 scoreless outings in a row.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
And they're in extras
so he’s probably pitched tonight
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
In fact he allowed the go-ahead run in the 11th
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
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