Three Run Homer for Juan Rivera: Jays Beat Cardinals
by Tom Dakers on Jun 26, 2011 12:41 AM EDT
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PrintIsn't it great how a new series can make life so much better. The offense, that looked so inept against Atlanta, looks reasonable against the Cardinals. Taking Nix and Patterson (not that they were the only problems in the lineup) has helped. Davis still looks lost at the plate, but there isn't two others that look as bad with him.
We got another nice start from Carlos Villanueva. He went 6 innings, 5 hits, 1 walks, 3 k and 2 earned. A few days ago that 2 earned would have bought him a loss, but, thank goodness, we are scoring again. Jon Rauch pitched us a great 7th. He had a bit more trouble in the 8th, giving up a single then a hit batter before getting a questionable (at best) strike out of Matt Holliday. Holliday got thrown out for putting up a very understandable argument about the third strike call.
John Farrell brought Marc Rzepczynski in, planning on a double-switch, but messed it up, so it wasn't a double-switch. These AL managers can't seem to figure out how to do that. Scrabble threw 1 pitch and got the double play to get out of the inning. Frank Francisco gave up a run in the 9th off a double, single and his own error, but fortunately had a 4 run lead to work with.
On offense, we didn't get a lot of hits, just 6 with 4 walks, but we had some big hits at the right time. Juan Rivera hit a 3 run home in the 3rd, to cap a 5 run inning. Edwin Encarnacion had a solo home run in the 9th to pad our lead. He also had a double in the 6th. Aaron Hill, hitting 2nd, had a nice game with 2 hits and a walk. Jose Bautista had a single and an intentional walk, plus a long fly that he just missed. Nice to see him hitting well again.
Jays of the Day are Rivera (.207 WPA), Scrabble (.103 for one pitch, but it got us a double play) and I'm going to give one to Carlos (.087). No Jay had suckage numbers, Adam Lind had the low mark at -.080 for an 0 for 3, but he had a nice sac fly in there, to plate our first run.
Edwin started his second consecutive game at third base and, I think, looked fine there. I wouldn't be against him playing there more, but I don't think the club can go back on the decision to play Bautista there for a second time in a few months.
Tomorrow Ricky Romero (6-7, 2.98) goes for the sweep. Let's score him 20 or so runs, ok guys? Kyle McClellan (6-3, 3.73) gets the start for the Cards. It is a 2:00 Eastern start time. A sweep would be nice.
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Farrell's going to have some interesting decisions to make ...
… when Cecil, Litsch, and who knows? even Drabek are ready to return.
by Defense Counts! on Jun 26, 2011 1:04 AM EDT reply actions
they're not going to forfeit
a month of development time in September no matter how bad he looks. he’ll be up Sept 1 at the very latest
Interesting how things ebb and flow...
Drop 3 to Atlanta…
Pick-up 2 from STL… (maybe 3 tomorrow).
"Do not ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman
by Jeremiah Stanghini on Jun 26, 2011 1:59 AM EDT reply actions
Sweet
another good game from the Jays. Sad that I keep missing these games. Hope to catch the game via stream tomorrow if not I’ll have to head to a bar.
"It's a car wreck that's what it is" - John Lynch
"I couldn't be on defense man, Lynch be hittin' everybody man" - Rod Smith
I hope you only like football-playing Cardinals
by Minor Leaguer on Jun 26, 2011 12:45 PM EDT up reply actions
lol, yes only them
My MLB loyalty belongs to the Jays ;)
by CanadianCard on Jun 26, 2011 7:43 PM EDT up reply actions
streams have been down
I was more hopeful than anything.
"I couldn't be on defense man, Lynch be hittin' everybody man" - Rod Smith
Next Jays game Wed Aug 11th @ SEA
Not so much good offense
As it was some luck going our way. Aaron Hill seems to be coming around though!
home team bias.
More or less I think it’s because he was a lefty he was getting those late breaking calls.
by BrownMagician on Jun 26, 2011 12:12 PM EDT up reply actions
St.
Louis
National League
Hugo thinks I'm a lazy academic
by bluejaysstatsgeek on Jun 26, 2011 6:18 PM EDT up reply actions
Tom, no!!
Edwin started his second consecutive game at third base and, I think, looked fine there. I wouldn’t be against him playing there more
Don’t fall for the trap, it’s 2 games!!!
Ball.
Question
If I bought tickets online today for Fridays game off of tiqIQ, would they come in time? For the shipping the options are just standard or express, they don’t say whether it’s FedEx or Canada Post and with the strike I don’t wanna buy ticket and have them be stuck in the mail.
by Nadia on Jun 26, 2011 6:47 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
I would say they wouldn't get there.
But it seems that strike might be off soon so it’s kind of a toss up
by jays182 on Jun 26, 2011 8:26 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
mine came by fedex
within like 3-4 days
Excuse me, do these effectively hide my thunder?
by T.Dot_Bronco on Jun 26, 2011 9:50 AM EDT up reply actions
Hopefully the Jays can pull off the sweep this time
I’m gonna be running my mouth the whole game.
by Siver on Jun 26, 2011 9:42 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
Shout out to all the Cards fans who have shown this Jays fan a thing or two about Midwestern hospitality.
Didn’t pay for a single beer after the 3rd inning.
by Siver on Jun 26, 2011 9:45 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Maybe St. Louis needs to steal the title
“City of Brotherly Love”
37. There is no 'overkill.' There is only 'open fire' and 'I need to reload.'
I missed most of this game.
Looks like I missed a good one…
I hope the Jays can give Ricky some run support today.
In honor of the Jays 2nd Baseman who played with fire in more ways than one.
by Damaso's Burnt Shirt on Jun 26, 2011 10:00 AM EDT reply actions
Indeed
I just did a double-take seeing the two starters for game 3 and their W/L vs ERA. Ricky is fully .75 runs better, but has 4 more losses with the same wins. That’s painful.
"Don't tell me it's impossible. Be honest and tell me you can't do it. Tell me you don't know how."
Aaron Hill is definatly BACK baby!
He’s going to kill it the rest of the way…
"Io voglio vandeeeeettaaaa!!!!!"
by Bullpen Lurker on Jun 26, 2011 10:58 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Aaron Hill has been below average the whole season, one two single game isn’t going to change anything. There’s no way he gets his OPS over .700.
by scrambles the death dealer on Jun 26, 2011 1:34 PM EDT up reply actions
Jays could easily have the best hitting infield in the majors
C-Arencibia, 1B Lind, 2B Lawrie or Hill, 3B JBau, SS Escobar. Hill is at second for now and hopefully he comes around cause we all love him, but if he doesn’t we could see Lawrie take his spot there going forward. Either way our infield could put up record numbers given the chance over a full season. Now with regards to the outfield and DH position we really need to consider some adjustments. Between Thames, Loewen, and Snider we should be able to add a couple of left handed hitting corner outfielders and/or DH from left side. We could use a RH DH (McDade?? SH) and a RH hitting corner outfielder (Sierra??) . In centre field I wouldn’t want to hinder Gose’s development at the plate, but he is probably the best we would have defensively. He is GG calibre already according to reports. So the question is when do we make these moves? I would say some now and some in August. Loewen now, Snider when he is ready, Gose in August, Lawrie when ready, any others in September.
Yeah, I'd take that infield
Their outfield too
Choose me, Ash!
by Pikachu on Jun 26, 2011 1:21 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Also their pitching staff
Pretty much their whole team I guess
Gose is not ready, hes very young, no need to rush him. he is still quite inconsistent at the plate
Lawrie will be playing 3B.
Lowen has no options and thus likely wont be up unless in an emergency
McDade is in AA, no need to rush him, and he Ks quite a lot
Onions Baby Onions
We will, actually
Next year too
Choose me, Ash!
by Pikachu on Jun 26, 2011 1:20 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Actually I would say it's close
I don’t really think Lawrie is going to play 2B but it isn’t completely out of the question. I was just having some fun, speculating what could possibly happen late this season and maybe next season. I do think Bautista, Lind, Lawrie, Escobar, and Arencibia would rival any infield in baseball. We would have power, speed, and BA.
So you know it won't happen
I thought you were actually serious. Even ten, the infield D would be pretty bad
Choose me, Ash!
by Pikachu on Jun 26, 2011 1:15 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
YES NADIA.
YOU’RE THE GREATEST
On my way to 3000 comments..
by Joseph Kirby on Jun 26, 2011 1:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Did anyone see Dotel celebrate after that Encarnacion homer?
That was pretty hilarious. He put his hands in the air like they do in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRnE4lnqRXc
by Joffrey's Loop Hole on Jun 26, 2011 1:19 PM EDT reply actions
hahaha
Anyone see what Tony La Russa said?
"I thought it was a real bang-banger, a banger, bang-bang."Tony La Russa, master of language, on a close play at first base between the Blue Jays’ J.P. Arencibia and Lance Berkman.
haha
I think that’s pretty awesome
"I couldn't be on defense man, Lynch be hittin' everybody man" - Rod Smith
Next Jays game Wed Aug 11th @ SEA
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