Don’t look now as the Jay’s are in the cellar

Well it has been a while since I wrote about baseball. What with all the hockey on the tube every night I must admit I have not been keeping up on much baseball lately. So tonight I decided to put on the Jays and D’Rays game and watch some. The Jays were cruising along and leading 3-0 in the 5th inning and looked to be ok. Then of course I got called away to pick up and be the taxi (you other parents out there know all about it I am sure). So I get back and I missed it. The game was over and the Blue Jays had lost 5-3. They must have fallen apart in the late innings. To quote Yogi Berra “it’s never over till it’s over”.
That’s what makes baseball different, there is no clock counting down and the game is not over until 27 outs are recorded and in the books.
The Jays are now sitting in the basement in the AL East, with a 10-12 record. When they are hitting there is poor pitching and when they get good pitching, they could not hit a beach ball. But hey that is the game.
Boston is off to another good start and leads the division with a 15-8 record. The Jays can’t fall to far back or they will never catch a good consistent team like the Red Sox.

On a side note The Blue Jay’s and Frank Thomas parted ways a couple of days ago. Frank was not swinging the bat real well and the Jays felt that one of their young players needed a chance and could give them a bit more. Thomas is a notorious slow starter and usually does not find his groove until the end of May at the earliest. I hope they don’t miss his production in the dog days of summer.
Anyway that’s enough for now and I apologize for missing the later part of the game.

Sincerely Walt Webb

The high’s and low’s of the baseball season

What a difference a few days make. Here I was saying how improved the Jay’s looked in a weekend sweep at home of the Boston Red Sox and low and behold just a few short days later, I am writing about Oakland coming into Toronto and sweeping the Blue Jay’s three straight. It just goes to prove what a finicky mistress baseball is.

After pounding on the Red Sox relievers last weekend, the Blue Jays could hardly push any runs across against Oakland. Well scratch that they put runs across, it was just that they let Oakland push across more in each game. The Blue Jays could not seem to get a hit when they needed one and Oakland would get one when it was needed usually a clutch hit with two outs.

Oakland also started two rookie pitchers in the series and the Blue Jays made them look like the reincarnation of Cy Young. Both got their first major league wins at the Blue Jays expense.

The contrast of the two series is just reinforcement as to why they play 162 games in a season.
All I can say is the Blue Jays better get some extra batting practice in, maybe some situational hitting as well.
Sincerely Walt Webb

Jay’s no longer AL east bride’s maids?

The Blue Jays opened up the Boston Red Sox eyes here and served notice to the rest of the AL east that they could be a team to be reckoned with this year.
The jays swept the World Series champs, Boston Red Sox in the 3 game series to open the jay’s home schedule.
Frank Thomas was a one man wrecking crew in the series, driving in 8 runs and recording 2 home runs. The Bosox relievers were blasted for 11 runs on 11 hits in 8 1/3 innings is the series and must have Terry Francona worried.
The Blue Jays pitching staff is as good as anyone’s in the league and if they can stay healthy, with the bats they have, they might just make it to the dance this fall.

Sincerely Walt Webb