Quick Thoughts
May 22nd, 2012 by Mike Wilner
11:54PM Eastern With a day game after a night game coming up, I’ll touch quickly on a couple of the major talking points that came out of the loss to the Rays: -Going to Evan Crawford in the 5th inning was a fine move by John Farrell. It may have been the by-the-book move or [...]
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At Their Own Game
May 21st, 2012 by Mike Wilner
11:26PM Eastern What started out looking like a little-league affair wound up with only one team looking as though it didn’t belong, and for one of a very few times when these clubs meet up, it was the Tampa Bay Rays. The Blue Jays have lost each of the past 14 series that they’ve played [...]
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Frankie McFrankFranked!
May 20th, 2012 by Mike Wilner
6:13PM Eastern The Blue Jays brought their brooms with them to Rogers Centre in an attempt to sweep away the New York Metropolitans, but fell just short despite having a seemingly golden opportunity to at least tie it up in the bottom of the ninth. The Jays had climbed back from a 6-2 hole to [...]
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Morrowtastic
May 19th, 2012 by Mike Wilner
5:39PM Eastern You can pretty much take the blog post I wrote two and a half weeks ago and re-read it. Brandon Morrow was great back on May 3rd in Anaheim, throwing a three-hit shutout and striking out eight, and he was great Saturday afternoon against the Mets, throwing a three-hit shutout and striking out [...]
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Interleaguic Good Times
May 18th, 2012 by Mike Wilner
12:42AM Eastern Blue Jays fans have long dreaded the beginning of interleague play because it’s a place where the Jays’ playoff hopes, faint though they may have been, have gone to die in recent seasons. For some strange,unknowable reason, the Blue Jays have rarely fared well against NL teams during the regular season, posting a [...]
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Bronx Broomage
May 17th, 2012 by Mike Wilner
11:57PM Eastern Coming into their series with the New York Yankees, the Blue Jays were looking pretty rough. They’d just been swept by the Rays and had lost four out of five overall to drop to within a game of the .500 mark and they had their fourth and fifth starters going against a powerful [...]
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Bombing The Bronxers
May 16th, 2012 by Mike Wilner
12:12AM Eastern If the first meeting of 2012 between the Blue Jays and Yankees was any indication, then it’s going to be one fun year for the boys in blue. The Yankees were simply no match for the home side, it wasn’t even close, as the Jays jumped out to a 5-0 lead through three [...]
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For Shame
May 15th, 2012 by Mike Wilner
11:47PM Eastern This was going to be a post about how the Blue Jays kicked away a tremendous start by Henderson Alvarez with shoddy defense in the top of the 7th inning, but home plate umpire Bill Miller rewrote the script with his complete and utter disregard for the game he was working in the [...]
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Welcome Home – Or Something
May 14th, 2012 by Mike Wilner
11:40PM Eastern A team generally loses its first game after returning from a long road trip, and I’ll wager the likelihood goes up if there’s no off-day after the travel. That doesn’t make the series-opening loss to the Rays any easier to swallow, though. Brandon Morrow didn’t seem himself through the first four innings, but [...]
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Like A Diamond Mine
May 13th, 2012 by Mike Wilner
5:55PM Eastern At least he’ll be pitching for Team Canada if they qualify for the World Baseball Classic, right? That’s the solace Blue Jays fans can take from the finale of the series in Minnesota – and the ten-game road trip – as the Jays wrap it up with a loss; Scott Diamond having thrown [...]
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