Sunday - Jays 3, Orioles 2 (in 10): Stop us if you've heard either of these stories before. The first one goes like this: Roy Halladay pitches lights out over nine innings, bearing down and stymieing the opposition after a couple of early runs. The other is the one about how the Jays offense barely scrapes more than a couple of runs together.
We probably don't even need to do game recaps at this point. The win keeps the Jays at 6.5 back in the Wild Card, if you're still tracking that sort of thing.
We'll take a win any day, but this seemed like the most passionless walkoff win we've ever seen. It just all seemed very "meh". (Then again, we weren't listening to Jamie Campbell, who might have been having kittens in the booth after Aaron Hill hit the lazy sac fly).
Milestones
Both Vernon Wells and Troy Glaus hit round numbers in RsBI this afternoon, with Wells driving in his 70th and Glaus driving himself in for his 50th with a fifth inning homer. With six weeks to go in the season, it would appear that neither player will get a sniff at 100 RsBI, a situation that is of obvious concern.
On the other hand, it is plausible that the Jays will end the season with three players driving in 90 or more. (Frank Thomas, 73; Wells; and Rios, 67.) We're not sure if you can fit faint praise like that onto an ice cream cake, but we'll look into it.
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Is Halladay's 125 pitches a season high? Given his history and the Jays remote chances of winning the Wild Card is this prudent? Then again, if you're Gibbons & Arnsberg you know your ass is grass, so why should you care?
It's his second-highest, actually, only by one, so that's a good point.
He threw 126 vs. the Chisox on that road trip we're all trying to repress... if memory serves, he was just OK in his next two games (both higher-scoring Jays wins) and then shut down the Angels when he was working on 5 days' rest.
So yeah, it could get a little dicey Friday in a return game vs. the Angels and Wednesday vs. the A's, which is when he would be slated to throw.
He won't go on 5 days' rest again until his third start from now. Hopefully for the Jays, they didn't tempt fate today, but Doc did have his velocity and the cooler temperature might have helped him.
Hmmm...Halladay has been over 110 a lot this year, and the extra dozen pitches doesn't strike us as ridiculously overtaxing.
And, in truth, the Jays should be playing every game like it is game seven NOW, because any loss at this point will pretty much dust off their thinner than thin chances at the wild card. (That's not to say that they have to win every game, but they have to nail down every win, and hope that the Tigers/Yanks/Mariners come back to the pack a bit.)
Ok, I'm officially a baseball geek, I'm part of an online pitch count debate.
I honestly didn't know if today's 125 pitches ( re. MLB boxscore ) was a season high, I just know that it is typically at the high end in this era.
Who wants to delve further into the arcania? What is Doc's mean pitch count, average pitch count and what the hell - how many starts with 110 + this season? And how do these numbers compare to past seasons?
Different subject, I thought the attendance today 38+, was outstanding for a non Yanks / Red Sox game. There are still plenty of Jay fans in the GTA ( few I would argue outside the GTA ), they just need a reason ( winning ) to get excited. I mentioned on this site awhile back that attendance was up a "negligible" 3%. I have since seen updated #'s and it is down a "negligible" .9%
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