Blue Jays: 2015 edition

[shack]

It seems that "fans" sound the same in every city. This from New York:

Girardi's post game gem of wisdom "offenses go through this" 4 runs in 5 games- 0 for 18 with runners in scoring position-and last but not least- no runs scored in the last 26 innings.This team has no heart,or it would have at least won 1 game out of 3.Pathetic showing for a once storied franchise,and it make me sick after watching them for 50 years. Tanaka gives up more gopher balls each and every start,and he is not looking like any ace this year,arm issues or not.The trade deadline blunders by Cashman will cost this team going deep into the playoffs,if they make them at all...

 

[mandrill]

It seems that "fans" sound the same in every city. This from New York:

Girardi's post game gem of wisdom "offenses go through this" 4 runs in 5 games- 0 for 18 with runners in scoring position-and last but not least- no runs scored in the last 26 innings.This team has no heart,or it would have at least won 1 game out of 3.Pathetic showing for a once storied franchise,and it make me sick after watching them for 50 years. Tanaka gives up more gopher balls each and every start,and he is not looking like any ace this year,arm issues or not.The trade deadline blunders by Cashman will cost this team going deep into the playoffs,if they make them at all...

Time will tell if NYY should have gone out and picked up an ace starter. They have no one to match up with Price or the other top teams' #1 and that might end up killing them.

 

[gcostanza]

LOL......some fan threw the ball back on the field and hit Gardner flush in the face

Untrue.

http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/i...source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

 

[AK-47]

Untrue.

http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/i...source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Whatever, he got clunked in the head Mr. Pedant

 

[gcostanza]

Whatever, he got clunked in the head Mr. Pedant

As someone said earlier in this thread Don't you ever get tired of being wrong?

 

[AK-47]

As someone said earlier in this thread Don't you ever get tired of being wrong?

Still mad about my dumbass comment, huh??

You'll get over it in a few years or so

 

[gcostanza]

Still mad about my dumbass comment, huh??

Which one, there's so many to choose from?

 

[AK-47]

LoL .........

 

[glamphotographer]

If the Jays sweep the Yankees this weekend and take 10 out of 13 games against the Yanks. Then I would be convinced that they are going to the World series.

As I was predicting....so far so good. Go Jays GO! :thumb:

 

[SkyRider]

That despite hitting Donaldson in 1st, and grazing him twice, its BS that no Royal was suspended too. Tempers flared on both sided, and anyone with half a clue knew Sanchez didn't hit a guy on purpose. The only suspension should have been Gibby for coming back out.

Aside from that point, he is quite right that Gibbons is tossed way too easy, and look at how easy Osuna was tossed too a few weeks back.

Now that the Jays are a contender and not just another .500 team, I would not be surprised if more umpire bad calls go against the Jays than their opponents, more Jays (players and manager) ejected than their opponents and more Jays suspended than their opponents. It's already happening. Gibbons ejected twice and suspended one game. Sanchez ejected and suspended 3 games. None of the opponent's managers or players were ejected or suspended.

 

[Ironhead]

LOL......some fan threw the ball back on the field and hit Gardner flush in the face

The outfield is so huge and some idiot plunks his 'own' player in the head, I assume it was a Yankee fan, while throwing a ball back onto the field.
Next time maybe try tossing the ball away from where the players are standing.

 

[mandrill]

Joe Girardi "not worrying" after Sunday's game.

http://mediadownloads.mlb.com/mlbam/2015/08/09/images/mlbf_351757283_th_45.jpg

NEW YORK -- The magic streak came to a screeching halt after 16 years and 2,665 games. With the Yanks' 2-0 loss to the Blue Jays on Sunday at Yankee Stadium, the club was shut out in back-to-back games for the first time since 1999.

The Angels shut out the Yankees in a routine, regular-season game on May 12, 1999. The following day, May 13, it happened again. From May 14, 1999, until this weekend, the Yankees hadn't been shut out in consecutive games until the Blue Jays turned the trick.

Combined with Saturday's 6-0 loss, Sunday's defeat meant the end of the Yankees' streak -- the longest in Major League history, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. The men in pinstripes haven't scored a run in their last 26 innings, which is their longest scoring drought since 1991, also according to Elias. Additionally, they've been held to three hits or fewer in consecutive games for the first time since '92.

The statistics are telling. But manager Joe Girardi indicated he's not reading too much into the offensive woes the Yanks have endured as of late.

"Offenses go through this. Every offense is going to go through this from time to time," said Girardi. "We have a good offense. We just struggled this weekend for whatever reason.

"You're going to go through some good times and bad times, and you've just got to come back and play well. When we go to Cleveland, we go from there. It's not our first three-game losing streak of the year, I don't think, so we've got to bounce back."

The Yankees' hitters seemed to echo the thoughts of their skipper, with Brett Gardner, Mark Teixeira and Alex Rodriguez all acknowledging the hitters didn't do their part this weekend.

Gardner indicated he, in particular, has an important role of getting on base as the second hitter in the lineup. He and Jacoby Ellsbury, Girardi said, are the only two Yankees who are really made to run and work the basepaths.

"We're in the top of the order for a reason: Get on base and set the table for the big guys," Gardner said. "Give them RBI opportunities. Jacoby and I, the last few days ... we didn't necessarily do a real good job getting on base in the top of the order, so it's definitely frustrating for us. I can't speak for him, but I know we take a lot of pride in what we do."

Rodriguez spoke about how there is still plenty of time for the Yanks to bounce back and added an entire season isn't defined by one slump.

As a veteran in the clubhouse, he knows this. The offense, he said, will come.

"We definitely took a punch this weekend," said Rodriguez, "and good teams punch back.

"There's no time to panic for us. We've had a very good season, so far. We're in first place for a reason. We like our team. We trust our team."

A genuinely major achievement by the Jays' starters who matched up better man for man against their NYY counterparts and who played up to their abilities and avoided mistakes. They largely neutralized Betances and Miller by out-pitching the NYY starters in games 2 and 3 and leaving with leads. Our offence is normally slightly better than NYY, but we played that series with an injured EE and no Devon Travis. And Tulo is clearly not playing with his full confidence at the plate.

We are winning with our pitching now. Price, Buehrle and Marc-0 are all top 10 pitchers in the AL on their stats and Dickey is making up ground.

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

What message would that be, that the Blue Jays are 1 1/2 games
out of 1st, playing well with 49 to go?

You really ask the dumbest questions. Jays just signed Price, Tulo....etc and are tearing up the league winning 8 straight.
Now what message could that send to reast of the league?? That the Jays suck??
That we cant hit?? That we're not contenders right now??

Give your head a shake

 

[gfelover]

What message would that be, that the Blue Jays are 1 1/2 games
out of 1st, playing well with 49 to go?

You really ask the dumbest questions. Jays just signed Price, Tulo....etc and are tearing up the league winning 8 straight.
Now what message could that send to reast of the league?? That the Jays suck??
That we cant hit?? That we're not contenders right now??

Give your head a shake

... I think his head actually bobbles......must be still working in the Yankee front office that GCost..:frusty:

 

[red]

that sweep was amazing. I was hoping they could make up a game by winning two of three but three wins. wow.

 

[AK-47]

Jays are a better team than the Yankees right now, its that simple.

Its funny how we went from having a shitty bullpen 2 months ago, to one of the best pens in baseball

 

[teassoc]

Nobody could have predicted that NYY sweep. We could all have hoped but the end result of giving up 1 (questionable) run is unbelievable.

Not so long ago that games there would always be losses.

 

[AK-47]

Zauno will be on MLB network all day today (ch. 415 on Rogers)

 

[saxon]

Travis out at least 3 more weeks according to AA. I hope this shoulder injury doesn't become something that's reoccurring.

 

[mandrill]

Marcus Stroman has officially been cleared to begin throwing off a mound.

The Toronto Blue Jays pitcher, who hasn’t played this season because of an ACL tear suffered during spring training, tweeted that Dr. James Andrews was ‘stunned’ by his progress. Stroman’s been cleared by Andrews to throw off a mound Tuesday. Stroman has been rehabilitating his knee at Duke University while completing his degree.

Last week, Sportsnet’s Shi Davidi reported the team’s tentative plans to have Stroman begin a rehab assignment Aug. 21. Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said that if Stroman were able to suit up this season “he’d probably come pitch out of the bullpen.” Stroman went 11-6 last season with a 3.65 ERA and 1.171 WHIP in 26 appearances (20 starts) last year.

http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/blue-jays-marcus-stroman-cleared-to-throw-off-mound/