May 05, 2008
Nine in a Row
McGowan leaves after seven innings with a 1-0 Toronto lead. That gives the Blue Jays nine straight quality starts. Jesse Carlson is on in relief, but hits a batter with one out and comes out of the game.
Update: Camp comes in and gets out of the inning. Cabrera lines one up the middle, and instead of a run scoring single, Camp deflects it to second and the Jays get a force. All the luck is going against the White Sox right now.
Update: B.J. Ryan just walked the bases loaded with one out in the ninth. They need one run to tie.
Update: Ryan gets Ozuna to bounce into a 1-2-3 double play and the Jays win 1-0. That's the third Toronto shutout in their last five games.
Correction: Ryan, not Wagner. I have some kind of mental block there. This is the second time I've done that.
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BJ Ryan, not Billy Wagner... man that was a scary Ninth... BJ certainly looked like he was laboring out there.
He had the 'guess where this pitch is going' look on his face. 1 run games are stressful.
ESPN said that Toronto's starters have a 1.09 ERA in their last 9 games (I think they said 9). Did they suddenly sign some free agent deadball pitchers??
Did they suddenly sign some free agent deadball pitchers??
No, their pitching has been threatening to get it together for some time now. The starters are finally all healthy, and some of the younger talent is really coming on. A.J. Burnett seems to have recovered pretty much all his stuff over the off season; when he was coming back after surgery last year, the brilliant Blue Jay brain trust left him in games for 120 pitches a couple of times (among other thoughtful moves). For the season they've given up 117 runs in 33 games, but they've gone lot of extra innings because of their somnolent offence. Not that I'm bitter or anything.