Some Games are Diamonds

by Tom Dakers on Jul 22, 2009 11:04 PM EDT in Game Recaps Comment 19 comments

Boy it is nice to see the bats come to life, 5 home runs in one game. I'd go back through our game to find out but I'd imagine we haven't hit 5 home runs in the last 10 games. Vernon Wells, Aaron Hill, Alex Rios and Marco Scutaro all went deep, Scoot twice. I guess it is no surprise to anyone to learn Marco hasn't hit two homers in a game before and with 8 on the season he only needs one more to match his career high. Even more amazing, Raul Chavez took his first walk of the season. That's the nice thing about baseball you can always see something you've never seen before. We haven't scored double digit runs since the end of May and we haven't hit 5 homers since May 30, 2006.

Ricky Romero pitched 5 very good innings but then in the 6th he gave up a hit, a walk and a homer. He did have some control problems, walking 5 but until the 6th he was able to pitch his way out of trouble. Can't fault him too much for the homer, up by 6 he had to challenge the hitter. We got the 3 runs back in the bottom of the inning. It would have been nice if he could have pitched deeper into the game but a rookie starter is going to some shorter starts. Romero is now 8-4 on the season.

Jays of the Day are Hill (.108 WPA), Rios (.100), Romero (.097) and Scoot (.092 and 2 homers). Vernon gets an honorable mention for the home run that got us on the scoreboard. No Suckage Jays today. Raul Chavez had the worst number (-.027), but he put down the nicest bunt in the 6th after Rios and David Dellucci walked. It was a perfect bunt. Then Scutaro hit his second homer of the day right after, that's the type of small ball I can get behind.

A very nice team effort, every player in the lineup had at least one hit or one walk. The game thread tonight was great fun, I guess a blow out will do that for you. Tomorrow night Mark Rzepczynski (1-1, 2.50) tries for our second series win in a row. Lefty David Huff (4-4, 6.60) starts for the Indians. Gotta love that ERA, maybe we can score 10 again.

Another long day of Doc trade rumors. Today the Tampa Bay Rays were rumored to be interested. Let's face it, every team in baseball would like to get Roy, I'll believe it when it happens.

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I heard JP's comments on Rome is Burning

…. i would say it is gonna happen.

Either by July 28 or off-season.

It sounds like Doc is ready to move on. He is at the peak of his career and understandably is very hungry for a WS.

by aagoodfella on Jul 22, 2009 11:24 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

see the video on this link … top right corner

http://www.tsn.ca/mlb/story/?id=285406

by aagoodfella on Jul 22, 2009 11:28 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ummmm I know it is pretty much a given that Roy has said he wouldn’t resign, but why in gods name would you say that.

'But I don't want to go among mad people' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can't help that' said the Cat 'we're all mad here'.

by JohnnyG on Jul 22, 2009 11:32 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

i was thinking the same thing

as much as we all know that… it makes me sad to have to think it.

Prehistoric Hoops - a neat little Raps blog

by boo15749 on Jul 23, 2009 12:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Sentance of the night:

“Romero is now 8-4 on the season. "

There isn’t a baseball pundit on the planet who would have ever guessed that. I’m sad he isn’t scheduled to start in Seattle. That would be the only silver lining of a Doc trade: the slim chance that Romero would pitch in Seattle.

10 run games are fun. More like this, please.

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by Temujin on Jul 22, 2009 11:44 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Spokane

isn’t Seattle. Can’t believe I’m gonna be missing you guys next week

"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 Jul 23, 2009 1:31 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

You are in Spokane?

I’m sorry man….

by Tom Dakers on Jul 23, 2009 2:07 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Tom, you are right

In the 5 games before last night’s win, the team had hit only 2 home runs. The last time we had scored 10 runs (or more) was May 27 in that awful 12-10 loss at Baltimore when the bullpen squandered the 8-3 lead inherited from Doc. That means 44 games passed between the last time we scored 10 or more runs and last night’s win. As far as small ball, I have always been a big fan of playing that kind of game. More to the point, in the previous 8 games the team had scored more than 5 runs just twice (going 1-1!) and a total of just 20 runs! Not good enough. I am just curious, folks: Yahoo Sports says that today’s game day will be on TV in Cleveland but doesn’t write who’ll carry it in Toronto……

by Marco1978 on Jul 23, 2009 4:07 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

that was an ugly game … but near the end of the losing streak i think

by aagoodfella on Jul 23, 2009 6:47 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Thursday's game is on Roger's Preview

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 Jul 23, 2009 10:11 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

If you go to BlueJays.com

Under schedule you can see the broadcast schedule which tells you what carriers are doing each game.

'But I don't want to go among mad people' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can't help that' said the Cat 'we're all mad here'.

by JohnnyG on Jul 23, 2009 10:25 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

As far as Doc, I want to be optimistic..........

…….well if it happens, it happens but thinking that he wouldn’t re-sign is sad, frankly………

by Marco1978 on Jul 23, 2009 4:08 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Some thoughts about and after Wednesday night's win

We are 3-1 but we had lost 14 of the previous 18, horrible. The absurd part is that the Jays hadn’t scored 10 or more runs in a win since beating the same Indians 10-6 (oh coincidence) on May 5, 2009. Last time we hit 5 long balls? Against the damn yankees (oh that’s nice!) in a 13-5 win on 23 July 2006 (almost same day too!). It was Scutaro’s first ever multihomer game and he had one long ball in his previous 69 games. He set his career high of 9 homers in 2005 with Oakland, by the way. Moreover, 3 of Marco’s 8 homers this year have come against the Indians (he’s batting .370 at 10 for 27 this year when facing Cleveland, although Toronto is just 4-3 so far in 2009 against the Tribe). What surprises me is that we are just 3-6 in our last 9 home games against Cleveland and haven’t won a home series against the Tribe since 6-8 July 2007. It’s time to win on Thursday, no doubt. Also to get back to .500. I mean, the Indians have lost 3 series in a row and 22 of their last 30 games. Oddly enough, their Thursday starter David Huff is 4-4 overall with a 6.60 ERA but on the road, he is 3-0 so far in 2009. And lastly, it’s not just Victor Martinez who is worrying us with his numbers against us. Infact, Ryan Garko had a key infield single in the 9th inning on Tuesday night and went 3 for 3 on Wednesday. More to the point, Garko is 8 for 17 (.471) against Toronto this year. Better be cautious……

by Marco1978 on Jul 23, 2009 4:18 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

About Thursday's day game.........

………here’s a piece from MLB.com on Kevin Millar:

http://toronto.bluejays.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090722&content_id=6005914&vkey=news_tor&fext=.jsp&c_id=tor

It’s written by someone named Erika Gilbert, described as an MLB.com intern and a journalism student on Twitter…….a Canadian girl (likely of my age) writing about sports to make a living? Uhm, can’t get much more interesting than that…….. :))))

by Marco1978 on Jul 23, 2009 6:45 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

From Mike Wilner's Blog

On the reason Ruiz isn’t up with the big club in place of Millar/Dellucci

I also found out that Randy Ruiz isn’t here because he apparently has a tendency to fatten up on those AAA pitchers who are in AAA because they don’t have big-league stuff, but struggles against the more polished eventual big-leaguers. I don’t know how true that is, and I still want to see him given a shot in the big leagues, and I think he probably will sometime in the next couple of weeks. I can’t see the Jays continuing to run Kevin Millar out there, as great a guy as he is, beyond the first week of August or so.

'But I don't want to go among mad people' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can't help that' said the Cat 'we're all mad here'.

by JohnnyG on Jul 23, 2009 9:18 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I've beaten this poor horse enough but...

Who cares how he does in the bigs at this point? Its going to be an adjustment, either now or next year. How could he be any worse than Millarucci?

Happiness is a long walk with a putter in your hand.

by craig in calgary on Jul 23, 2009 11:08 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

That's one of those statement that you can't prove

unless you call the guy up. Maybe he does only hit well because it is AAA ball, but until you try him in the Majors, it’s just a theory. It is an excuse and not a good one. Milar wouldn’t fatten up on AAA pitching because his bat is too slow, but then he doesn’t fatten up on major league pitching either. It’s one of those ‘Major Leaguers are better’ answers. But really there is no magic. Good hitters are good hitters.

by Tom Dakers on Jul 23, 2009 12:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs