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Dylan Cease Throws A One Hitter, Jays Win!
Blue Jays 6 Red Sox 0 Dylan Cease went nine complete, giving up just one hit (with three walks and twelve strikeouts). He was just amazing, even with Dan telling us he wasn’t throwing as hard as usual. And the offense did the job. We got: We had 15 hits, 14 more than the Red […]
Jays @ Red Sox Game Thread
Game #105. After yesterday’s game, John said that Tyler Rogers wasn’t available for the game and that Louis Varland would only be used if there was a save situation. It was nice to see them score more than one run. Today let’s shot for more than one run and a win. I know that is […]
Happy Birthday Ed Spraque
Today marks the 59th birthday of Ed Sprague, former third baseman for the Toronto Blue Jays. Sprague spent eight seasons with the Blue Jays, from 1991 until his trade to the Oakland Athletics on July 31, 1998. In return, the Jays acquired Scott Rivette, who ultimately never reached the major leagues. During his time in […]
Jays Lose To Red Sox
Blue Jays 4 Red Sox 6 So it was a better effort than we’ve seen of late. Kuzuma Okamoto hit a three-run home run in the seventh (which got us back into the game). Andrés Giménez hit a sac fly in the eighth (which tied the game). That was homer 23 for Okamoto, setting a […]
Blue Jays @ Red Sox Game Thread
An Apple TV game, because MLB will never turn down a dollar. It would be nice to win a game or two this series. Today’s Lineups BLUE JAYS RED SOX Ernie Clement – SS Anthony Seigler – 2B Vladimir Guerrero – 1B Ceddanne Rafaela – CF Kazuma Okamoto – 3B Wilyer Abreu – RF George […]
Barger To Have Season Ending Elbow Surgery
I remember, when I was young and playing sports, the parents, who we called coaches, said ‘give 110%’. Well, you can’t/shouldn’t do it all the time. You go all out, you are likely to injury something, Addison Barger is going to have season ending elbow surgery. He’ll either have Tommy John or an internal brace […]
Friday Open Thread
I’ve been trying to do one of these open threads once a week, generally on off-days, but we don’t have an off-day this week. And we get to play the very hot Boston Red Sox this weekend. Tonight’s game is one of those fun Apple TV games, because MLB will do anything for a dollar. […]
Contest Time: Guess Which Jays Will Be Gone By The Deadline
So now that we are firmly in the sell camp, let’s have a contest to guess which players will be traded away. The problem the Jays have is that they don’t have that guy who will net them top prospects. They don’t have Tarik Skubal, who will be the one that everyone will be bidding […]
Jays Win!
Rays 1 Blue Jays 3 WE SCORED THREE RUNS! It isn’t like we had a lot of hits, just seven (with three walks). But it was enough We scored a run in each of the first, third and seventh innings: Vlad and George (with a walk) had two hits each. Yohendrick, Clement, and Kirk had […]
Rays @ Jays Game Thread
Game #103. Some runs would be nice. Some defense too. The Jays made another move, picking up outfielder Rudy Martin off waivers from the Orioles. The Orioles had just picked him up in trade from the Royals and DFAed him, which I imagine we’ll be doing soon enough. He is a 30-year-old left-handed hitting outfielder […]
Jays Roster Moves: Schneider, Macko Up
We haven’t hit the daily roster moves frequency that Alex Anthopoulos gave us, but we are making moves lately. Corbin pitched Tuesday and it didn’t go well, 2.1 innings, 7 hits, 4 earned, 3 strikeouts. His ERA has jumped to 5.51. It was 3.65 at the end of May. Had to figure something was going […]
Another Game, Another Loss
Rays 4 Blue Jays 2 Well, we scored two runs. For a moment, it looked like we could have big first inning. With one out (an Ernie Clement strikeout), Nathan Lukes walked and Vladimir Guerrero doubled high off the wall in right center. A few feet left and it would have been a home run […]
Rays @ Jays Game Thread
This is game 102. Which is good, because a 60 game win streak might just get them into the playoffs. There are a couple of roster moves: Kevin Gausman can block any trade to the Reds, Brewers, Tigers, Mets, A’s, White Sox, Pirates, and Mariners. I don’t know if that will cause a problem trading […]
Where To Go From Here?
The last several games have been incredibly disappointing. Not because they lost. Because they haven’t played well in any part of the game. 1-6 in the last seven games. They’ve scored 2.7 runs per game. They’ve allowed 6.7 runs per game. And they have been making errors far too often. It seems like they’ve shut […]
Happy Birthday Dave Stieb
Today marks Dave Stieb’s 69th birthday. We saw Stieb on the weekend. He looks like he could still play. Stieb holds the franchise records for wins, innings pitched, strikeouts, games started, complete games, and many other pitching categories. His 103 complete games in 408 starts for the Blue Jays is a mark unlikely to be […]
Jays Still Stink, Lose to Rays 12-2
The Jays haven’t, obviously, been good this season. This week has felt like the bottom finally falling out, though. They’re now equidistant between the third wildcard and last place in the American League. Their run differential is tied with the last place Angels. It hasn’t been fun to watch, but after months of thinking they […]
Rays @ Jays Game Thread
Game #101. With 2 wins in the last 7 playoffs seem a long lost hope. I would like some runs. Note the plural form of the word. We went through a nice stretch where we scored 39 runs in 6 games, just a few days ago. Could we please do that again? There has been […]
Who’s Hot, Who’s Cold: Blue Jays Batters
So I thought I’d go through this little exercise just for my own sense of ‘what the hell is going on’. Over the last 22 games, four weeks (with the All Star break in there), the Jays are 7-15. They’ve averaged 3.5 runs a game. Quite the stretch run. The batters are hitting .214/.272/.337….which makes […]
Just A Terrible Effort, Jays Lose
Rays 7 Blue Jays 1 I really thought the Rays had more than seven runs. It was a terrible game in all ways: We did have 8 hits on the day. Clement, Lukes and Springer had 2 each. Varsho (bloop single) and Kirk had the other two. I guess we only hit into 2 double […]
Rays @ Jays Game Thread
I’m past hoping for wins. I’d just like it to look like the Jays are trying. I understand that you can try and have it not look like you are, but…..please put in an effort today. Maybe more than 5 hits….let’s go for 8 hits with at least one being for extra bases. And let’s […]
Monday Blue Jays Notes
Another Monday, another new series starts. Four games against the Rays. The pitching matchups: Max Scherzer starts for the Bisons Wednesday, they are saying he’ll have another rehab start after that. If he could have a great start for the Jays after that and get traded off the next day, that would be the best […]
Today in Blue Jays History: 10 Player Trade with the Astros
Fourteen Years Ago Today The Blue Jays and the Astros made a ten-player trade: Happ played for us for 2.5 seasons. He was hurt quite a bit, including one injury when a line drive hit him in the head, and he ended up on the DL with a leg injury. In 2.5 seasons, he had […]
Anemic Offense, Jays Lose
White Sox 3 Blue Jays 0 So, remember when we got that run yesterday. That was a good day. Today, we managed four singles and one walk. We had runners (well runner) in scoring position in one inning, going 0 for 2. Nathan Lukes had two his, one a bunt single (great job) in the […]
White Sox @ Jays Game Thread
We have an early game. Maybe it will be finished before the start of the World Cup game. Let’s score more than one run today. Yesterday I mentioned the 1-0 games are very rare. That was our first 1-0 game, win or loss, of the season, and they didn’t have a 1-0 game all of […]
On Duane Ward’s Passing
The Blue Jays announced that Duane Ward passed away in Toronto. He was in Toronto for the ceremony for the World Series winning teams, but didn’t get to the ceremony Saturday. They say he died of natural causes. He was just 62. Far too young. We mentioned that it was strange that Tom Henke was […]
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