Even the Doctor isn't the Cure for all that Ails Us, Halladay Loses to Rays
Not quite vintage Roy Halladay but he was pretty good, 6 innings, 5 hits, 2 walks, 2 earned and 7 strikeouts. Really the only hard hit ball off him was Carl Crawford's 2 run homer. Other than that he gave up 4 soft hit singles and one of the walks was to Evan Longoria, when he had first base open, that set up a double play. Since he hasn't been able to run the last couple of weeks the Cito took him out a bit early, hard to keep your legs in shape when you aren't running.
Offensively we didn't do much, hit a bunch of balls to the warning track but they were just long outs. A couple of them as was sure were going to be homers. Vernon Wells also clubbed one but just foul. We had 17 fly outs to 8 ground outs and just 2 strike outs. Some bad luck, some pop ups. Adam Lind had 2 hits, and Wells, Rolen and Barajas had one each. Jose Bautista had both our walks. A right-handed pitcher walking him is a sin, he is slugging a big .238 against right-handers.
The one good things about about watching Jays games is our defense. Hill made great catch on a line drive over his head, Rolen made a nice catch and Jose Bautista threw out Gabe Gross trying to stretch a hit into a double. He does have a great arm, but if you are slugging .238, your great arm should be pitching.
No Jays of the Day tonight, honorable mention to Doc. Suckage Jays? Lyle Overbay (-.124), Jeremy Accardo (-.114) and Marco Scutaro (-.102). Tomorrow Scott Richmond (6-4, 3.68) goes against last year's Jay killer Matt Garza (5-5, 3.61). Well Jay killer may be the wrong word, he is only 3-3 against the Jays but has a 1.99 ERA against us. And we could basely hit him at all last year. It should be interesting.
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Well I certainly never saw this coming. /end sarcasm.
by Icedragon on Jun 30, 2009 12:25 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
missing something....never saw what coming?
by Tom Dakers on Jun 30, 2009 1:02 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
so you wait for the team to lose
and then sarcastically post that you knew the team was going to lose all along?
Just checking.
"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 Jun 30, 2009 11:10 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I posted sarcastically because the Jays seem to always lose to the Rays, so its not a surprise that they lost yesterday.
by Icedragon on Jun 30, 2009 12:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
hopeless
Jays’ need JP to get off his useless butt. Pick up a decent left-handed hitter to play left-field. This Bautista-Inglett-Adams thing is a joke. Get someone to play there everyday. Yes, Travis Snider is scheduled to be there but at the moment he’s not. And no one knows when he will be ready to play there everyday. Dellucci is a band-aid.
No big shock JP is sitting on his hands. In spring training, Cito and JP basically said they were playing towards 2010. They didn’t want to sign any significant free-agents (their choice to be cheap), and this season was to be a mulligan. But the Jays’ hot start caught them off-guard and they were hoping for great things for next season. But fans deserve some effort from management to keep this team in the race. But I expect no significant moves from JP. And people wonder why only 15,000 bums are in the seats some nights.
by purplebutz on Jun 30, 2009 1:09 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
well again...tell us what trade you would make.....
and no it wasn’t Cito and JP that ’didn’t want to sign and significant free agents’. The budget was set from above.
by Tom Dakers on Jun 30, 2009 1:12 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
what?
how can you say that? They saved 15 million on AJ Burnett, which they were willing to spend if he had wanted to return. So they obviously had at least 15 million to spend.
by purplebutz on Jun 30, 2009 1:18 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
no, management decided what the budget was.
they didn’t say ‘you can take the 15 million we didn’t spend on AJ and pay someone else’. And course they didn’t save that whole $15 million because other player’s salaries went up.
JP doesn’t set payroll.
by Tom Dakers on Jun 30, 2009 1:23 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Awful weekend, it's just a very unlucky stretch.....
Just to put my comments in contest, I may be the only member of this blog who had a worse weekend than the Jays (some bastard tried to break into my house, now let’s go find 3.000 loonies to repair everything!) and honestly after Saturday’s horrible effort (yes I even interrupted a vacation out of town 2 days earlier to get home and watch that awful thing!) and Sunday’s too-recurring one-run loss, I had a bad feeling about Monday night. Despite Doc, of course but after all he’s human too and if the Jays can’t score at home against a team trying to overtake them in the standings (TB is up by 2 games btw!), do the Jays need some change among players? Does the club have a will to spend or not?
by Marco1978 on Jun 30, 2009 4:28 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
By the way.........
About Garza, that 1.99 career ERA against Toronto is a worry but for example when the Jays played Philly, they solved Blanton who had won three straight starts against them posting a 1.57 ERA so yes such situations can be solved but on Monday night, there was no offence until the club was trailing 4-0. Not even Doc can do much more than allowing just two runs in 6 innings after being on the DL, right? Plus, Rod Barajas made an error that was crucial. Although it was the club’s first in 11 games, seems like these lapses always come at the worst times and end up costing a whole lot more. These two things really worry me right now: too many soft starts in the first inning (just think about Saturday!) as Toronto has more runs allowed than scored this year in the opening frame but there’s also a trend where the few defensive lapses and just a few bullpen errors (a couple of runs allowed here, a couple there the following night!) end up costing maybe even a game in some cases. And the standings do show how costly this is becoming…..
by Marco1978 on Jun 30, 2009 4:33 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Tom is right about the defence........
…….I mean, the very good plays even lately do outnumber by far the one lapse made in the last 11 games but still, it’s an awful feeling knowing that the one error Monday night cost a lot although maybe not the game. However, a normal offensive performance on Monday would have more than made up and would have been enough to win. So yes maybe bad luck about those long flyballs but against a team that’s trying to overtake you and playing at home for the 3rd straight series, you need a solid offensive effort first of all to back up Doc’s return. In these last 3 losses, we only scored 5 runs. What else do we need to say? On Saturday zero. Sunday, they trailed early. Monday, almost no hitting.
by Marco1978 on Jun 30, 2009 4:37 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Maybe those 15 millions saved..........
…………had to be used to pay down some club debts toward the banks? I keep thinking about these things because Toronto didn’t sign a big bat and because the world keeps getting worse economically while football players in Europe get paid much more than the best baseball players despite playing a lot less. Since all major sports clubs over in Europe are fairly stuck in debt…I don’t know, I haven’t read the club’s financial statements
by Marco1978 on Jun 30, 2009 4:40 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
my opinion of that is...
here in the US/Canada… we have 4 major sports that fans basically give attention to… unlike Europe, they have Soccer and only Soccer….granted they have some small basketball leagues….some have hockey leagues….but nothing comparable to the competition of the 4 major sports played here. In fact, in the US… I would argue that its 6 major sports considering college basketball and college football are extremely popular. I dont live in Canada…so I dont know what the top sports are… but Im gonan guess…. 1) hockey 2) basketball 3)…. i dunno, baseball or football…. CFL seems to get good crowds
by Aquamelli on Jun 30, 2009 9:31 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Infact, I just went through some articles about Sunday.......
……….and before McDonald was caught stealing (not the first time we see that type of mistake this year) we had two on and nobody out in the ninth against Lidge. I mean, we had started the inning perfectly with the Chavez bunt and then we got the walk for Marco Scutaro. You just can’t throw away these big chances at home against the defending champions if you want to repeat 1992 and 1993 by replacing them. As simple as that!
by Marco1978 on Jun 30, 2009 4:51 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Tom, if you want to find a player the Jays can't handle..........
……….well, that would be Jayson Werth sadly………in the last 9 games against Toronto he has 8 homers (he has gone deep in 7 of those 9). In the other two games, in one case he had a sacrifice fly and in the other (Sunday’s 5-4 loss at SkyDome) Werth had a hit and a whopping four walks. Infact, including Sunday’s game Werth had reached safely in 10 straight plate appearances. I can’t think honestly right off the top of my head of many other offensive players that have been so hurtful for the Jays of late. Can anyone?
by Marco1978 on Jun 30, 2009 4:55 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Well, the problem is that Carl Crawford has done well against Toronto too.....
Maybe more so than Jayson Werth. Including Monday’s game, when he was 2-for-3 with two RBI plus a steal and a walk, Crawford lifetime against the Blue Jays has hit .323 over 106 games racking up 37 extra-base hits (15 doubles, seven triples and 15 home runs!) with 59 RBI and 46 steals! Worse yet, he’s hit .318 with two homers and nine RBI when facing Doc Halladay.
by Marco1978 on Jun 30, 2009 7:19 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

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