It figures Lester would pitch another good game against the Jays. He had two terrible outings before his first game vs. them, then shut them down, and then had a poor outing his last time against the Twins and then pitched another shut down game against the Jays. $10 says he won’t repeat this performance in his next start. I mean, ok, he did pitch good, but why is it always conveniently against Toronto? Pretty annoying. That said, Romero has been awful since coming off the DL. He’s starting to give up too many HRs (then again the pitching staff all around is giving up way too many HRs), and his control was pretty bad today. When you walk 5 hitters, chances are some of them are going to hurt you. Strange that Richmond is the odd man out, he’s only really had one bad start this year. And he did better than Romero today. I also have to agree, Wolfe’s gotta go back down. He’s been awful. Bring back Accardo. And, you know….its a situation like this that it would be nice if they still had Chacin.

so why shouldn’t we? First they moved Ortiz down in the order. OK, that was an easy one. But then after losing a whopping 2 games to Toronto, Francona changes it again, and guess what, it worked! Are you following any of this Cito?

I know, I know, the alarm clock didn’t go off again.

Neither Rios nor Wells should be in their current positions in the order. Their stats are nearly identical. I would accept moving just one of them down, but I’d rather have both dropped, and I think it would do both of them some good, lessening the pressure a bit.

Hill is a classic #3 hitter. That’s where he should be. When Overbay is playing, he should be the #2 spot because of his OBP. I know you all think Lind is not ready for the clean up spot, but why not try it. I really don’t care what they do with the rest of the order, but let’s just say #5 Wells, #6 Rolen, #7 Rios, #8 Barajas, #9 Batista/Inglett. When Millar plays for Overbay, what the hell, put him in the 2 spot.

OK, go ahead and try to skewer me.

I was looking at the Jays schedule…they don’t play another East team until the end of June. Crazy. Of course, thats due to interleague play most of the month. But they sure have a whacky schedule to say the least. And then after the All-Star break they play 5 straight against the East…

Marc Rzepczynski started the year on fire and was like 6-1 with New Hampshire with way more strikeouts then innings pitched, now I see today he is 6-5 and gave up like 8 runs in 3 innings. So much for his meteoric rise.

Cecil never seems to dominate at triple A, although he did have like 7 strikeouts today in 6 innings. I am stilll pissed he was sent down after one bad outing, when he tired and Cito screwed up. The pitchers have some funny stats down there, must be some issue with the ballpark, it it a small park or the carry of the ball from the air?

Daker’s is right on, why is Wolfe here, even before today and Accardo not, seems like Jays have some issue with his tude.

Not impressed with Romero, not so much he may be rusty, but I thought his fastball would be more of an out pitch. He throws tons of off speed stuff and that is not necessarily bad, but I always thought he could overpower when needed but I do not see that in him. For eg, I thought he would try and blow one buy Pedroia- you knew Pedroia was going to hit a homer when pat tabler starts saying he only has one homer and that is because pitchers are not going inside. It was the jinx of death for Romero. I think he has one start to save his spot and then back to Richmond. The Jays seem to not be giving him credit, he may not have the best stuff, but other then two games, he has been solid.

Finally, rather then useless Inglett and Bautista, whey not bring up Jason Lane. He tore up spring training and has had some very solid ML stats in the past. At least he may have power and his slow start is probably as much a result of being pissed he did not make team as anything and there were articles on his dissapointment in going down after his great spring.

It all came down to one bad pitch today. Romero had a great set of pitches in the at-bat before Pedroia came up but then hung that breaking ball and it was over. I just had a feeling how the game was going to go after that. We were back to not getting clutch hits again or any luck with two outs. Oh well. Series win. On to the next.

Since the first game of the Jays losing skid, the Jays have been out HR’d 21-4. Considering its only been 12 games, 21 HRs against is not a very good number. If the Jays pitching would start limiting the amount of HRs given up (or at least start hitting more of their own), they would have a far greater chance of pulling out wins. And it doesn’t help that 3 of the 4 Jays homers have been solo. HRs are one thing Romero is suddenly giving up way too many of. I think he only gave up 1 in his first 3 starts, now he’s given up 5 in his last 2. It is becoming a bit of a concern for the staff as a whole, thats for sure.

Oh and to continue with the idea of hitting HRs…Lester has given up at least 1 HR in 5 of his last 7 starts, the only two where he hasn’t are the two games against the Jays.