Jays Get Bats Working, Beat White Sox

by Tom Dakers on May 15, 2009 10:32 PM EDT in Toronto Blue Jays Game Recaps

White Sox 3 Jays 8

I know the inning didn't mean much, with us up by 5, but it is great to see BJ Ryan pitch a good inning, First game back from his time on the DL. He did walk the first batter, but then struck out 2 and got a fly out to get out of the inning. Jesse Carlson also pitched two good innings of relief.

Brett Cecil pitched well enough, he got staked to a big lead and didn't give it up. 6 innings, 6 hits, 2 walks, he did give up a couple of home runs. He did well enough to pick up his 2nd win.

Offensively, Aaron Hill hit a 2 run homer in the 3rd inning, his 10th of the year. 10 in 167 at bats. Last season, before he got run over by David Eckstein, he had 2 homers in 205 at bats. In the 4th we got a double, single, single, double, double, double, single and hit bat before our first out to score 6 runs.

We had 12 hits and 3 walks on the day. Everyone in the lineup had at least 1 hit except for Vernon Wells and Alex Rios, but then Rios took one for the team. Hill had 3 hits and has his average up to .347. Scoot, Lind and Rolen each had 2 hits.

Jays of the Day are Hill (.242 WPA) and Cecil (.203). Honorable mention to Lind and Scutaro. Suckage Jay was Vernon Wells, 0 for 4 with 2 double plays for a -.097.

Tomorrow Robert Ray starts for us, while we get to pound Bartolo Colon. More on Colon in this post by Jessef and YAY it is on TV on this side of the 49th. Other good news, Yankees are losing to the Twins 4-2 in the 9th. Red Sox play the Mariners later tonight, go M's.

Best news, we is first. I'm not getting tired of saying that. We are in first. 24-14, a game and a half up on the Bo Sox. And still haven't lost more than 2 in a row. Pretty damn cool.

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Damn Yankees won....

by Tom Dakers on May 15, 2009 10:48 PM EDT reply actions

yea, too bad

…. but looking at that box score, man, yankees fans had a greeaaaaatt home game tonight … pulling one out in the bottom of the ninth after trailing the whole game … now that must have been exciting (if you are a yankees fan that is)

by aagoodfella on May 15, 2009 10:53 PM EDT up reply actions

also got to watch an inside-the-park homerun

blooper down the leftfield line which was misplayed terribly by denard span.

"The NY Mets are my favorite squadron" -- Apu Nahasapeemapetilon

by jessef on May 15, 2009 11:26 PM EDT up reply actions

Damn Boston is up too.

6th inning 4-1 over Seattle

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. ~Rogers Hornsby

by wroth91 on May 16, 2009 12:01 AM EDT reply actions

4-3

lester sucks

by Aquamelli on May 16, 2009 12:11 AM EDT up reply actions

5-4

hopefully Seattle can hold to this lead and not blow it the way they did to Texas the last couple of days

by Aquamelli on May 16, 2009 12:17 AM EDT up reply actions

Mariners closed it out!

"The NY Mets are my favorite squadron" -- Apu Nahasapeemapetilon

by jessef on May 16, 2009 1:15 AM EDT up reply actions

that deep fly at the end was scary

by Tom Dakers on May 16, 2009 1:24 AM EDT up reply actions

yeah Jason Bay is pretty good, huh?

"The NY Mets are my favorite squadron" -- Apu Nahasapeemapetilon

by jessef on May 16, 2009 1:57 AM EDT up reply actions

He is....

good canadian boy

by Tom Dakers on May 16, 2009 2:02 AM EDT up reply actions

Booya! Just saw that now.

Well done Seattle

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. ~Rogers Hornsby

by wroth91 on May 16, 2009 4:02 AM EDT up reply actions

john danks

… didnt think too much of our Jay fans…. apparently he got pissed at the 17K in attendance lol

Danks (2-3) allowed seven runs and nine hits, the third time in four starts he has allowed five runs or more. Danks, who has not won since April 22, disgustedly tipped his hat to jeering fans as he left the field. "These fans, I don’t want to get in trouble, they’re hockey fans, I’ll call them that," Danks said. "They were getting on me pretty good and it was just kind of my way of slapping them back in the face, I guess you could say."

by Aquamelli on May 16, 2009 12:01 AM EDT reply actions

Well

What we lack in quantity, we make up for in quality.

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. ~Rogers Hornsby

by wroth91 on May 16, 2009 4:01 AM EDT up reply actions

you broke our first baseman's hand

‘hockey’ fans tend to remember that sort of thing

"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

by hugo on May 16, 2009 7:05 AM EDT up reply actions

Badge of Honour

Heck, if visiting players say Jays’ fans are “getting them good”, I would say it is a source of pride. There is no shame in being the tenth man on the field.

If visiting players say the bird’s nest is the toughest place to play in baseball, I say Good!

In fact, most folks do not realize that the real reason that Man Ram moved to the Dodgers was that he wanted out of the AL East, and out of the AL altogether and to be as far from Rogers Center as he could get – LA fit the bill. Well maybe. ;-)

by aagoodfella on May 16, 2009 12:41 PM EDT up reply actions