Lind, Rasmus and Encarnacion Homer: Jays Beat Mariners
by Tom Dakers on Aug 18, 2011 1:42 AM EDT
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That was a great game.
Nice start from Brandon Morrow, he didn't give up his first hit until the 4th, had a little trouble in the 6th inning. Gave up a one out infield single to Ichiro and a wild pitch (could have been a passed ball) to move him to second then a Franklin Gutierrez double to the center field to score Suzuki. A walk, a strikeout and a hit batter loaded the bases, but Brandon got Trayvon Robinson to strikeout to end the inning. That pitch that hit Casper Wells might have been as scary a moment as I've seen in a baseball game. A 97 mph fastball glancing off a nose? He's lucky, it could have been very serious.
Morrow finished 6 innings with 3 hits, 2 walks, 12 strikeouts with 1 earned. Jesse Litsch, Casey Janssen and Frank Francisco each pitched a scoreless inning each.
On offense, we got 5 runs off Mariner starter Blake Beaven (did Stan Lee name this guy?). Adam Lind had a 3 run homer. Edwin Encarnacion and Colby Rasmus each had solo shots. We only had 6 hits but with 3 of them homers, that was all we needed.
Jays of the Day are Lind (.219 WPA), Morrow (.149) and EE (.122). Eric Thames had the Suckage number (-.103) but with the great catch he made while falling into the stands, I can't give him the award.
Aaron Hill also made a great catch, running back hard on a ball to shallow right. Yunel Escobar made a nice double play in the 7th with two on base and one out. That made up for a strange error he made earlier in the inning. Eric Thames caught a fly to left, threw it into Yunel who sort of tossed it away. I guess he threw towards Brett Lawrie but Brett wasn't expecting the throw and Kyle Seager moved up from first to second on the play. The next batter hit a ground ball to Lawrie and Brett's throw to first was too high for Lind to keep a foot on the bag.
Tomorrow we start a 4 game set in Oakland. Ricky Romero (11-9, 2.87) starts. Trevor Cahill (9-11, 3.92) goes for the A's.
Very pleasant game thread tonight. A nice end to a series that we could have swept, with out a bullpen meltdown in the first game.
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Very entertaining game indeed
I must point out two negatives from this game though:
1) Jose Molina’s nonchalance with the ball deflecting off his shin guard—he slowly walked to get the ball but ended up kicking it away from him. Good thing Ichiro at 2nd didn’t get a chance to advance further
2) And as you alluded to, a strange error by Yunel Escobar for lobbing a ball at Brett Lawrie who wasn’t paying attention, allowing the runner to tag up from first. This is what can happen if someone isn’t paying attention: http://colorado.rockies.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=18033355
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I thought he was trying to sucker Ichiro into running by kicking the ball.
I've been looking at the sky
by Back In Black on Aug 18, 2011 10:08 AM EDT up reply actions
Even if that were the case
By the time he bent down to pick it up, Ichiro would be safe on 3rd. But… maybe Ichiro thought that’s what he was trying to do :)
Maybe Molina thought...
…that ichiro thought that Molina thought…
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by bluejaysstatsgeek on Aug 18, 2011 3:56 PM EDT up reply actions
The ball should go from whomever receives it from the OF directly to the pitcher with a man on first.
It certainly wasn’t Lawrie’s mistake. You don’t throw the ball around the infield with a runner on.
by ShipwreckTheory on Aug 18, 2011 11:25 AM EDT up reply actions
Man...
Creeping around for jays182 is hard….wait WHAT?
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lol TMI, im not sure BBB needs to know what happen between you and jays182
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Haha you stayed at it for like 20 minutes
That’s intense
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Very good game overall
though i could appreciate it without the the 6th inning but still a very good win.
Still one more midnight baseball game to go
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only one?
yay!
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by Bowling_Guy25 on Aug 18, 2011 7:43 AM EDT up reply actions
The Jays are looking like last years team with all the homeruns lately.
P.s. Ultra ego boost when I noticed I won the tagline contest. Do I win anything? Just kidding… or am I?
You've won our deepest respects
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by Minor Leaguer on Aug 18, 2011 2:12 AM EDT up reply actions
You won 5000 internet points, spend wisely
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Hey jessef
About the flyballs and Ks…so would the ideal pitcher (you mentioned Halladay) have a high GB rate in addition to a high K rate? Or is that not possible if he continues to pitch up in the zone?
by Nadia on Aug 18, 2011 2:10 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
The ideal pitcher
Gets 27 outs in an efficient manner, with some of them through strikeout to make batters respect what he throws and some of them through ground balls and pop flys to conserve pitch count.
that's generally the gist of it, though it's a bit overly-simplistic
but i’ve written too much on this already so i’m going to just do a post on it later today
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2 posts in a week!
lucky us!
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by Bowling_Guy25 on Aug 18, 2011 9:35 AM EDT up reply actions
I love it when we win!
"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct."
- Niels Bohr
It's so awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I'll be off to Italy this Friday
So I won’t be around until at least August 28th. Hope you folks have a wonderful time, and GO JAYS GO!
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Have a good time in Italy!
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Thanks. =)
"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct."
- Niels Bohr
He deserves at least one more shot. Other starters have had more opportunities to prove themselves.
by Defense Counts! on Aug 18, 2011 2:49 AM EDT up reply actions
That's never a good reason for anything of any nature ever
“This idea failed with these two guys; this third guy, who seems to be performing even worse, deserves more chances so that it’s fair!”
“Well, we held on to all of our Enron and WorldCom shares longer than we should have; it’s only fair that we hang on to our WaMu and Lehman Brothers shares until the end of 2008!”
You don’t need to give all players a similar number of chances. Doing so entirely ignores the fact that we, as human beings, have the capacity to absorb new information as it becomes available and to update our decisions/beliefs/preconceived notions using said new information.
"Upon further evaluation, though, the Blue Jays reversed course. Doctors suggested that the inconsistent workload in the bullpen would increase the chances of McGowan suffering another injury. "
Wooo, chill out buddy. That's a pretty intense reply for a baseball discussion.
Players are human beings, not shares in a company. Some take longer than others to find their way, and employees of a company like to be treated equally. So Mills has had problems; so what? So did EE, Morrow and Cecil earlier in the year. Remember that this team is not competing for a playoff spot right now, so it’s a great time to experiment without compromising a World Series chance.
This team is trying to find fourth and fifth starters. Jo-Jo didn’t work out; CV probably won’t either. Drabek might in the future. In the meantime, the Jays have no choice but to give a chance to potential starters like Alvarez, Mills, and maybe Litsch again. Who do you think they should try instead?
by Defense Counts! on Aug 18, 2011 4:22 AM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, sorry
that came out far more dick-ish than was intended. I had some stuff I was gonna qualify the first part with essentially what you said in the 2nd paragraph, I just got distracted and tired and then just sent it.
My apologies.
"Upon further evaluation, though, the Blue Jays reversed course. Doctors suggested that the inconsistent workload in the bullpen would increase the chances of McGowan suffering another injury. "
fwiw
I was staunchly pro-EE, Morrow and Cecil, I just don’t see how Mills can succeed beyond eating innings this year.
But yes, I was gonna add at the end of the initial post that you’re probably right anyway, since there aren’t m/any other viable options.
"Upon further evaluation, though, the Blue Jays reversed course. Doctors suggested that the inconsistent workload in the bullpen would increase the chances of McGowan suffering another injury. "
Wow....
I just saw the video of the catch from Eric Thames, what a great play! I like his reaction after catching it also, he acknowledged the fans and everything, that was great, this team has got some major energy, especially Thames and Lawrie!
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Signs of Improvement!
Asher Wojciechowski last night.
7.0 IP | 2 H | 1 R | 1 ER | 0 BB | 4 SO | 0 HR |
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Apparently Aaron Sanchez is showing signs of improvement with this terrific start last night.
5.0 IP | 2 H | 1 R | 1 ER | 0 BB | 7 SO | 1 HR |
Misaul Diaz got the win as he pitched terrific also in this outing.
2.0 IP | 0 H | 0 R | 0 ER | 0 BB | 4 SO | 0 HR |
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Oh my goodness...the GCL Jays were forced to use 9 pitchers last night.
Joe Musgrove
3.0 IP | 1 H | 0 R | 0 ER | 0 BB | 2 SO | 0 HR |
Jeremy Gabryszwski
1.0 IP | 0 H | 0 R | 0 ER | 0 BB | 2 SO | 0 HR |
On the offensive side…
Jorge Vega-Rosado: 2-5, 1 R, 2B, 2 RBI, BB
Jacob Anderson: 2-7, 2 R, HR, 3 RBI,
Santiago Nessy: 3-6, 2B, SO
Justin Atkinson: 2-5, 1 R, RBI, BB
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Jairo Labourt started with the DSL Jays last night..
3.0 IP | 2 H | 2 R | 2 ER | 2 BB | 4 SO | 0 HR | Groundouts-flyouts: 4-0 |
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Sorry man, I never know when you're gonna do them :P
You’ve been having some off-days, my bad!
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Bull pen
Can we give the bullpen a bit of a break on Monday’s meltdown? Being handed a 1 run lead with 4 innings to go isn’t always going to end well, especially when the offense gives nothing more for the rest of the game. I think the reaction has been more because of the fashion it was given up.
by Steve02 on Aug 18, 2011 8:32 AM EDT reply actions 2 recs
that came from a tv show on family right?
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by Bowling_Guy25 on Aug 18, 2011 8:39 AM EDT up reply actions
apparently been around for awhile lol
i just remember some show about students, that was focused around a music store, and one of the characters was trying to make the saying hip. Can’t remember the name though
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by Bowling_Guy25 on Aug 18, 2011 8:51 AM EDT up reply actions
found it
Radio Free Roscoe
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by Bowling_Guy25 on Aug 18, 2011 8:53 AM EDT up reply actions
This movie destroyed the phrase for me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTMT_eVOKdw (scroll to 0:30)
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by Minor Leaguer on Aug 18, 2011 10:46 AM EDT up reply actions
So who had the sweetest homer last night?
All 3 were nice swings and absolutely crushed… I’d say Rasmus hit his the hardest considering it probably went as high as it did far but I’ll give it to Lind for opposite field+0-2 count /2 out+ “clutchness”
Rasmus's was the hardest hit...
…according to Hittracker, although EE’s had a very minimally higher speed of the bat (101.9 vs 101.8) Rasmus’s was among the top1% highest apex HRs this season at 134 feet.
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by bluejaysstatsgeek on Aug 18, 2011 3:10 PM EDT up reply actions
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