Yunel Escobar confuses Kevin Gregg for kitten, punches him in Jay's Win
by Tom Dakers on Jul 16, 2010 10:26 PM EDT
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PrintI know our Atlanta friends are going to hate this, but Yunel Escobar looked pretty decent to me. Lazy? Well if the guy makes the defensive plays like he did tonight all the time, I don't care how lazy he is. He made several nice plays and then one just amazing one in the 9th. On offense he got a bunt single his first at bat as a Jay. Perfectly laid down bunt, with Fred Lewis on second. There wasn't even a throw. His second time up he took an 8 pitch walk, something that our guys aren't good at. He also reached on an error in the 7th.
The rest of the team got into the offense too. We had 10 hits in all. 3 for Aaron Hill, homer, double and single. Lewis had 2. Everyone else had one except Jose Bautista (0 for 5, 2 ks, didn't look good at all at the plate) and Edwin Encarnacion (0 for 4, one hard hit, course right to a glove for a double play and one long fly out).
Ricky Romero had a great start. 7 innings, 5 hits, 1 walk, 5 k, 2 unearned runs. He gave up a couple of runs in the 5th, set up by two bad errors, one for Lewis and one for EE.
Scott Downs and Shawn Camp pitched a scoreless 8th and Kevin Gregg had a 1, 2, 3 9th for his 21st save. I think we can get off his back for a bit. He was helped by that amazing grab of a line drive by Escobar.
Jays of the Day are Romero (.247 WPA), Hill (.140), Gregg (.106) and I'm going to give one to Escobar for his .080 and handful of great defensive plays. Overbay deserves a honorable mention too. Suckage are Bautista (-.142) and Encarnacion (-.104 and the bad error), though he made a couple of nice plays too.
Great to see Hill hitting.
The post title? A suggestion from Torgen. Craig from Calgary said he didn't want to come home to a recap with Kevin Gregg's name in, so his name had to be in. And we were making fun of the hatred for Escobar from Atlanta fans, so on one of Yunel's good defensive plays I mentioned he was hard to dislike. Torgen said that if you watched the play in slow motion you could see he punched a kitten while making the play. At the end of the thread Torgen suggested this as a title.
Maybe you had to be there.
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Damn..
I wonder how Gonzalez is doing…. LOL
Wham Wham! Kabam Kabam! A Double Kabam! And It's A Double Dion!
by realcanadianbacon on Jul 16, 2010 10:46 PM EDT up reply actions
Ok when Bengie gets hot he can hit doubles and homers with the best of them
but how the hell did he get a triple? He makes Delgado look fast and for nearly a decade there I thought Delgado was the slowest runner I would ever see.
Were you watching the game where he hit the triple with the Jays?
Was a great game, he jumped up laughing and pointing into the dugout. The entire team was doubled over in laughter
Life as a Toronto Sports Fan?... *sigh*... It is what it is...
Nope, definitely nope
I would have remembered that. Now that I know he hit it at Fenway it makes a bit more sense. A weird hop off of one of those outfield corners and God only knows where the ball will go. I still can’t wait to see the highlight of the triple.
Junior Felix's first MLB hit was inside the park HR at Fenway (if im not mistaken) It bounced around that indentation in CF.
"I knew when my career was over. In 1965, my baseball card came out with no picture."
— Bob Uecker
Jr. Jr’s first hit (on the first pitch) was a 2 Run HR off Kirk McKaskill of the Angels.
The ITPHR you are referring to was the 3 game beating the Red Sox took in 89 at Fenway where Jr almost single handed destroyed the Sox with 11 RBI over 3 games (probably his greatest moments as a Jay.)
In honor of the Jays 2nd Baseman who played with fire in more ways than one.
by Damaso's Burnt Shirt on Jul 17, 2010 11:04 AM EDT up reply actions
I knew he had one at fenway wasent sure if it was his first MLB at bat or not. Thanks for the correction. Was that HR in Boston a Inside the park grand slam? I seem to recall it was
"I knew when my career was over. In 1965, my baseball card came out with no picture."
— Bob Uecker
Yup, it was an ITPHR GS.
In honor of the Jays 2nd Baseman who played with fire in more ways than one.
by Damaso's Burnt Shirt on Jul 17, 2010 6:05 PM EDT up reply actions
Single, double and HR I can see
But what obscure orifice of Fenway park did he manage to hit a ball such that he had enough time to run all the way to third base?
by shuswapslugger on Jul 16, 2010 11:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Apparently he hurt himself from the triple
His legs must have fallen off or something. I’m waiting for the video to appear.
Ball.
Love that opening line
Hope Yunel is good for you guys.
by James Kannengieser on Jul 16, 2010 11:33 PM EDT reply actions
OK hate the Yankees all you want...
but it was cool to see them walk off against TB in the game when they honored George Steinbrenner and Bob Sheppard.
by shuswapslugger on Jul 16, 2010 11:33 PM EDT reply actions
Is Hill's BA over the Mendoza line yet?
HEADING STRAIGHT FOR THEM, I PRESS DOWN MAH GUNS!
by BenjiDoc on Jul 17, 2010 12:38 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
Haha, great title
Caption was great too…
Ahhh, playing the Orioles….makes everything better.
On an unrelated note.,
GO SEE INCEPTION. Not next week, not tomorrow, RIGHT FREAKING NOW.
Coolest movie I’ve ever seen, seriously.
I'm on a horse.
by craig in calgary on Jul 17, 2010 1:17 AM EDT reply actions
I'm excited to see that myself
"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
Thats what your gonna get with Yunel
great defense, but some mental lapses
Until those Mental lapses just get to big, and he hurts the team
His last straw with my Bravos was when he had an easy throw and instead of hitting his target he threw it off target and almost broke Troy Glaus’ wrist
I’m telling you there will be times when you love this kid and times when you would do anything to get him off the team
OJ didn't do it
every player has a bad day
it seems like you braves fans have very high standards that you would not forgive a guy if he makes an error.
Multiple errors
and careless plays is what got him traded from serious contender to (no offense) not a contender(unless you get really hot)…
OJ didn't do it
Multiple errors? he has 4 this year.....
For some reason a guy is up near the top of the league in UZR gets judged on 4 errors instead of all the good plays, I get it. We do the same with Encarnacion but then EE doesn’t have the great range Escobar does.
Um, okay?
Multiple errors: His highest in a season is 16. Alex Gonzalez has had plenty of seasons with 16 errors. I don’t see how this makes him any worse than Alex Gonzalez that way.
Careless plays: Lots of people seem to be zoned in on almost breaking Glaus’ wrist, but everyone makes a few careless plays on the field, so unless you give a really long list of incidents where he was careless, I don’t see how he’s a danger on the field.
I’m really astounded how Braves fans seem to want to just murder this guy even after he’s left your team.
Ball.
Certain fans of certain teams seem unable to let it go even after a trade.
Melky cabrera is still getting trashed on Pinstripe alley and he hasn’t been a part of the Yankees since the off season.
Esco is a good defnder, absolutly
but his head isn’t their and his offensive numbers have been pathetic(.240/0 HRs/19 RBIs(5 on opening day)
OJ didn't do it
Multiple errors and careless plays is what got him traded from serious contender to (no offense) not a contender(unless you get really hot)…
and
Esco is a good defnder, absolutly
You’re saying he’s a bad defender because he has multiple errors and he’s careless in the field because of attention or head stuff or his puppy is dying or whatever else you can say but not prove, then you say he’s a good one. Absolutely. Make your point already.
Offense, players go through slumps, sometimes season wide slumps. We have Hill and Lind, we know season wide slumps. Big. Deal.
Anything to do with attitude and head stuff is just speculation. Rios was thought to be a head case here, but it didn’t matter until he both sucked and was being paid a lot of money to suck. Chicago probably has no complaints about Rios’ head right now.
Ball.
Esco is a good defender
but at times he is terrible
Esco can;t hit, its something to say he is in a slump, but a 90 games slump? Usually a player snaps outta it by then. And he has 0 HRs and 19 RBIs…that is laughable for an everyday player
OJ didn't do it
He can't hit....
That .299/.377/.436 line from last year is a mirage. And yeah he has made 4 errors this year….Gonzalez has made 11 and he’s great. Anyway…go enjoy Gonzo, we will enjoy Escobar and all is good.
To be fair
Some of us got pretty sick of Rios’s mental lapses, many of which hurt the team. It wasn’t for lack of talent, just brains.
I've been looking at the sky
by Back In Black on Jul 17, 2010 4:20 PM EDT up reply actions
Braves fans have also spent the last 15 or so years thinking that Chipper Jones is a cool dude
I’ll make up my own mind, thanks
"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
You riping on Chipper
i mean 1st ballat hall of famer, cool dude i’d say
i mean im just warning you bout ESCO before you all start to love him
OJ didn't do it
Meaning Chipper Jones has trashed Toronto on several occasions
As you might imagine we don’t think nearly as highly of him as Braves fans do.
Chipper Jones is a class-A douchebag and always has been. Great baseball player, but any baseball fan outside Atlanta knows that he’s a real a-hole.
The anti-Escobar thing w/ Atlanta makes perfect sense to me. They dont care what you do as long as you produce…which is why everyone in that franchise loved Escobar the last 2-3 years when he was one of the best shortstops in baseball, but poof…he’s in a slump and now this is a problem thats been there for a while now? Really? It didn’t seem like a problem when Bobby Cox was naming him the team MVP…but a few months later and he “hates Escobar”?
Looks like a simple case to me of a situation where the team had issues with how Escobar played but didn’t bother saying a peep when he was out there making plays. He has a bad year and now everyone is talking like “oh, we’ve felt this way about him forever!” when the truth is that 2 years ago they wouldn’t trade Escobar for anything. Now they’re relieved to get rid of him.
With a name like that, how could he NOT be?
I mean, come on. Chipper is the coolest name ever
by YunelTheLazyLatino on Jul 18, 2010 1:10 AM EDT up reply actions
Yep, those Franchise players have helped your World Series Totals. Since the Jays have come into the league we have won it twice.
In that same time span. Braves have won once.
Granted you did make the playoffs all of those years dominating a weaker NL East for all those years… how was it making the playoffs that many times with nothing else to show for it except the Series in 1995?
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