GAMES 40 AND 41, MAY 12TH AND 13TH:
RED SOX 5,5, BLUE JAYS 3, 2
JAYS’ OFFENCE FIZZLES AGAINST
VULNERABLE BOSTON STARTERS
Check out these pitching lines against Toronto in the last two games of the Red Sox series last weekend: David Price: 5.1 innings pitched, 1 run, 5 hits, 3 walks, 6 strikeouts, 93 pitches Drew Pomeranz: 4 innings pitched, 3 runs, 5 hits, 5 walks, 6 strikeouts, 103 pitches The question is, did Toronto win…
GAME THIRTY-NINE, MAY ELEVENTH:
BLUE JAYS 5, RED SOX 3:
AIR MAILE: LUKE’S TWO BOMBS
MAKE UP FOR CRAZY WILD THROW
NOTE FROM YER HUMBLE SCRIBE: I am skipping Game 37 and going on to Game 38, and for good reason. I was in a state of denial when Jay Happ's situation in the first inning of Thursday's rubber game was transformed from a relatively mundane first and third with two outs into “OMG, he just…
GAME THIRTY-SEVEN, MAY NINTH:
BLUE JAYS 5, MARINERS 2:
DOUBLE YOUR PLEASURE:
BARRAGE IN 8TH EVENS SERIES
How wolfishly the Blue Jays' hitters must have felt as they contemplated facing the soft-tossing slants of journeyman lefty Wade LeBlanc Wednesday night, 24 hours after they'd been overwhelmed by the power of James Paxton. So how'd that work out for them? Not so good, it turns out, as LeBlanc, the starter that nobody wants…
GAME 36, MAY EIGHTH:
MARINERS 5, BLUE JAYS 0:
OH NO, NO-NO! BIG MAPLE CANUCK
STIFLES JAYS ON HOME GROUND!
How many levels of irony can be found in the fact that James Paxton of the Seattle Mariners threw a no-hitter at the Toronto Blue Jays Tuesday night in Toronto? First, as everybody in Canada knows by now, Paxton is Canadian, born in Ladner, British Columbia. (This was, by the way, the second no-hitter by…
GAMES 33-35, MAY FOURTH TO SIXTH:
NEARLY LOST WEEKEND IN TAMPA:
ESTRADA RIGHTS SHIP JUST IN TIME;
PILLAR EMERGES AS MOVING FORCE
Friday: Oh, that orange juice bowl. Every time the Blue Jays take a dip in the orange juice bowl they forget how to swim Early Friday morning the weary and forlorn Toronto Blue Jays dragged themselves into Tampa Bay for a three-game weekend series with the resurgent Rays, who do not look very much like…
GAMES 30-32, MAY SECOND AND THIRD:
JAYS LOSE TWO OF LAST THREE,
STILL WIN TWO SERIES:
BLAME THE RAIN!
If you think you'd like to be a big league baseball player, maybe you should think twice about the work and travel regimen before signing on for the big bucks. I don't know how your work week went, but this is what the Jays' last week looked like. Monday they arrived in the Twin Cities…
GAME TWENTY-NINE, MAY FIRST:
BLUE JAYS 7, TWINS 4:
MORALES KEEPS JAYS CLOSE,
TWINS THROW IT AWAY IN TEN
Not to beat a dead horse here, but I can't help but wonder what Paul Molitor must be thinking about the play of his currently-tanking Minnesota Twins after they threw away a second straight game to the visiting Toronto Blue Jays. The Twins took an early lead on Marco Estrada with two runs in the…
GAME 28, APRIL THIRTIETH:
BLUE JAYS 7, TWINS 5:
JAYS HOLD OFF SHAKY TWINS,
POST RESPECTABLE 16-12 APRIL
There wasn't a pre-season prognosticator who would have put the Toronto Blue Jays on the same page as the Minnesota Twins as possible playoff contenders. I might've, mind you, but then I'm a little less than objective. It would have been more than a little surprising, then, if they could have foreseen that a 15-12…
GAMES 25-27, APRIL 27TH-29TH:
RANGERS 6/7/2, BLUE JAYS 4/4/7:
HAPP AVERTS NEAR LOST WEEKEND:
HOMER BARRAGE WARDS OFF SWEEP
This weekend's Toronto series with the visiting Texas Rangers had all the makings of a Shakespearean tragedy. There was Marcus Stroman, the tainted hero, stained with hubris. There was a tragicomic interlude where no one could do anything right, but the heroes stumbled more than the villains. . Then, just when this tragic farce was…
GAME TWENTY-FOUR, APRIL 26TH:
RED SOX 5, BLUE JAYS 4:
NO SALE: JAYS GO DEEP ON CHRIS,
STILL LOSE SERIES TO BOSTON
So riddle me this: how often is Chris Sale going to give up an improbably manufactured first inning run, and solo homers by Devon Travis in the second and Justin Smoak in the third, to be facing a 3-1 deficit for his Red Sox over the Blue Jays? That's the situation we faced last night…