One bad inning costs us. Red Sox beat Jays.

by Tom Dakers on Jul 11, 2010 4:07 PM EDT

Jesse Listch had a no hitter going with 2 out in the 6th, then he gave up a double to Marco Scutaro, a homer to Darnell McDonald and then a homer to David Ortiz. Other than that one inning he gave up just one hit and one walk. It's tough to tell if he was pitching that good or if the batters were just having that much trouble with the sun that was just behind the pitchers mound early in the game. Apparently there was a problem with the roof, so part of it was closed causing a shadow that covered the field from just beyond the pitchers mound on in. It seemed to cause the batters problems.

Our Jays batters had the same troubles. We only managed 8 hits and no walks. Our two runs scored in the 7th on a Aaron Hill homer. Edwin Encarnacion and Alex Gonzalez had 2 hits each. Everyone else had one, excepting Fred Lewis, Jose Bautista and Vernon Wells. Each could have made it a different game with a hit at the right moment.

Jay of the Day? We'll give it to Hill with a .090 WPA. Suckage goes to Bautista (-.172), Lewis (-.160), Buck (-.120) and Wells (-.118).

It would have been nice to pin a blown save on Papilbon but it didn't happen. Lyle Overbay did work a single, but other than that we had 3 first pitch outs. It didn't look like they were bad pitches to swing at, just were missed.

The Jays have 4 days off now, other than our All-Stars. We start up again on Friday in Baltimore. Romero, Morrow and Marcum will be our starting pitchers for that series. I'm hoping/expecting Travis Snider will be up by then too.

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Would've like to have seen us take this series, but...

I’m not going to complain. We’re heading into the All-Star break a game under .500. Much better than I, and a lot of others, expected them to be at this point in the season. Here’s to an even better second half!

"A baseball park is the one place where a man's wife doesn't mind his getting excited over somebody else's curves."

by Corvus on Jul 11, 2010 5:50 PM EDT reply actions

My conclusion from sitting up real close to Boston's On-Deck Circle

is that while Big Puppy is quite a nice guy, Youkilis is still obnoxious. And he didn’t even argue today….
HP ump seems to have a tendency to fill up the count and ignore the strike zone.

Well, next game I’ll be back up at the cheap seats… I know they missed me…

Festina Lente

by HESS2479 on Jul 11, 2010 6:19 PM EDT reply actions

I hope Youkalalaylee makes it into the Umpire Hall of Fame as a metaphor for all the crap umpires have to deal with on a daily basis

by Joey P on Jul 11, 2010 11:17 PM EDT up reply actions

I have always got the impression that Ortiz was a good guy, he always seems like he would be a lot of fun to be around in the clubhouse and joking around with during practice.

Life as a Toronto Sports Fan?... *sigh*... It is what it is...

by JohnnyG on Jul 12, 2010 10:01 AM EDT up reply actions

My first game in many years

Just visiting Canada from Asia and was at my first game in almost a decade. Shame the Jays couldn’t win, but enjoyed watching Litsch no-hit the Sox through almost six innings. Was also happy they couldn’t open that one part of the roof, as managed to give most fans some shade from what started out as a hot sun. Comments from other people around me seemed to suggest they also liked it. As for the batters, well I don’t know…

by jabalong on Jul 11, 2010 7:55 PM EDT reply actions