Roy Halladay retires as a Blue Jays

Roy Halladay who won 203 games and two CY Young awards between The Toronto Blue Jays who he broke in 1998 and taken a no-hitter into the ninth inning against the Detroit in the last game of 98 season in his debut and the Philadelphia Phillies where he played his first playoff game against the San Francisco Giants and became the second only pitcher to throw a no-hitter in his first ever post-season appearance in 2010. The 36-Year-old had amazing 203-105 record but his career ended way too short as I though he would come very close to being the next 300 game winner but after being traded to the Philadelphia Phillies he won his second CY Young in 2010 with a 20-10 record and after a 19 victories in 2011. the following two seasons were not as advertise as he ended 6 straight seasons of pitching over 200 innings in 2012 when he pitched 155 in 25 games and posted a 11-8 record with a much bigger era than usual 4.49 ERA and then in 2013 he did not get off to a good start as he quickly destroyed his shoulder in multiple areas and only pitched 13 games and 62 innings and an era of 6.82 and a record of 4-5. In 2000 Roy Halladay lost all his control and was shell of himself and went down to single A to figure it out and with the help of late great Blue Jays pitching coach Mel Quinn he found his stuff and it rocketed him to what looked like a Hall of Fame career but with his final two seasons being shortened and it shortened his career to 16 very good seasons instead of like 2o Hall of Fame seasons. In his 12 seasons with the Jays he posted the second most wins (148) and strikeouts (1495) along with shutouts (15) behind the great Dave Stieb and third in starts (248), innings (2046.2), complete games (49), and ERA (3.43). He will go down as one of the two best pitchers in Blue Jays history along side Stieb and by signing an one day contract to finish his career with Blue Jays and at sometime next season he will rightfully take his place on the Jays wall of excellence which is not Cooperstown but it will be the closest he will get. I hope Halladay had a great career and that he enjoys watching his kids grow up which most athletes missed out on when they are as competitive as he is Tom Mehegan

Josh Johnson is the biggest fraud in Jays history

Josh Johnson has gone way further than Al Leiter and his splinter and it was all round into a nice tiny one season package as he has gone to visit Dr. Andrews just for a check up and is done for the season but as of right now he looks right for a good another contract season. The thing that Josh Johnson and his team did wrong is have his agent go on the radio and say Jays should trade Josh Johnson to the Yankees for a bat meaning trade my client without saying it and that was in March before the season began. What he should of done was gone behind closed doors with AA and demanded to be traded and it probably would of worked because Mike Aviles was pegged to be the second baseman this season until he went quietly and demanded to be traded and immediately traded to Cleveland with Yan Gomez for Esmil Rogers and Mike Napoli should of been the guy that helped J.P. Arencibia break into the majors but instead he got out of town to Texas before visiting and we got the double gong show that was Frank Francisco and Jon Rauch. The Fraud part of Josh Johnson is that he has been horrible as he pitched half a season with the Jays and a 2-7 record and an era 6.20 that is almost double than his era coming into the season along with his 56-37 record and at any little point in the season when anything went bad for him he would sit out for months at a time. He has by sitting out the rest of the season will most likely have his cake (getting back to the States) and eat it too (Jays will get nothing for him as he will walk and the Jays will get nothing). To be worth than Al Leiter who pitched 7 seasons with Jays and pitching 15.2 innings in his first season and then had a full season during the Jays second championship and then 20 starts in'94 and 28 in '95 and finished with a record of 26-24 and than he went to Florida and put up a season of 16-12 and pitched 215 innings and a couple of seasons later he went to the Mets in 7 seasons went 95-67 and pitched 1360 innings (194 innings a seasons). Bye Josh I will not miss u Tom Mehegan

Jays may want to trade Jose Bautista

Trading Jose Bautista I guess that the Jays would get a great package for him and be set for seasons wait not really as Jose Bautista is on paper much better than any thing they could get back for him. So I think that the Jays should trade Jose Bautista because his hot temper and his decision making on the field has become a much bigger negative than his production has been a positive as he pimps what he thinks is a home run in a game on the first game of the home stand against David Price and the Rays in the first inning and it becomes simply a long fly ball. Then Sunday looking at 2 and 7 going into the finale of a 10-game home stand Edwin Encarnacion hits a Ball to center field and thinks it a home run and get his arm out for his parrot and it turns out that it hit the top of the fence and was lucky not to be thrown out at second. So everybody pimped homers early the first game of the home stand with J.P., double E, and even Bautista did it all before the fourth inning and then slowly watch the game slip through their fingers picking up only a single hit over the last 4 innings with Price on the mound and only a Brett Lawrie solo shot against the pen as they lost another one. Then Jose Bautista today decided he was more than the team as in the seventh inning was at the plate with runners on second and third with one out and did not like a strike call by the ump early in the at bat and finished the at bat with strike out on a ball out of the strike zone and turned to the ump and gave him a piece of his mind and was tossed out of the game. He simply needed a fly ball to score Brett Lawrie from third to give the Jays the lead 2-1 and be able to get that ball to Casey Janssen with the lead. Jose Bautista was not the only Jay thinking about himself as Rajai Davis had 4 stolen bases and was on third and could of scored once if he slide around the catcher but he went in standing up and was out on Josh Thole bunt. Colby Rasmus has been hitting over .375 on the 10-game home stand but when he has had a shot at putting Casey Janssen in a better position to save a game as he got k'd with two out in the seventh inning of a 1-1 tie with Lawrie on third and this past Wednesday with the Jays up 5-4 with Bautista on third with one out he k'd for the third time in the game in the eighth. Then got his glove and a strike left to the Dodgers name he drove for a ball and missed it allowing the tying run to score and give Janssen an undeserving blown save as he should of laid up for the ball and had first and second and allowed Janssen another shot at saving his only save opportunity of the home stand. Casey did get a win in the finale of the home stand as Colby Rasmus did get a single to drive home Emilio Bonifacio from second with one out in the bottom of the ninth and it was the second appearance for Janssen in the last 10 games which is not good for a closer. So in the end Bautista attitude is bad for the team as it rubbing off on the Jays dugout in the worst way and it maybe time to cut ties and separate ways for the better mint of the team going forward even if we all that production from the lineup Tom Mehegan

Mark Buehrle shows Jays fans what should of been

So on the day that Brandon Morrow's season official ended and the day that someone decided that red bull (Brett Lawrie) would be the everyday third baseman (really tomorrow they could wake up and say he is are second baseman) Mark Buehrle faced a team worst than the Blow Jays and did what was supposed to do on the Rogers Centre mound. Mark Buehrle lead the 45-55 blow Jays and snapped a season low 7 losing streak and gave the Jays their first post all-star game win (should been the night before Right COLBY RASMUS) and he treated the 33-67 Triple A Houston Astros as his personal test study as he had a complete game shutout on 3 hits. Yes It was the Astros but he should of been chewing up innings and spitting a lot of zeros out and the reality is that he has been only chewing up innings but not coming even close to spitting out zeros as he would allow crocked numbers especially right after they fixed one of his crocked numbers he would allow another crocked number. So I am diffidently not saying that he pitches to 7 Astros over the first two innings and have one ball hit in play which was by Jose Altuve (5 ks and a walk) and finished the game with 9 ks and 108 pitches which again is un-Buehrle-like but it is the Astros. The were very nice to Erik Bedard from Navan, Ontario so the Jays must not be Leaf fans as he is from Senators country and Leafs do not like the Sens as they only got three hits off him over 5 innings and one run but leave it to the Blow Jays to make it a photo finish as Joey Bats barely crossed the plate before double E was thrown out trying to stretch a double into a triple. So the Jays have blowed all season long in the seventh decided to give Buehrle a cousine so he can put it into the hands of Casey Janssen (RASMUS welling) to do what he is paid to do (save games) but instead they use Lucas Harrell in seventh inning as their rent moul as they put up 3 runs to make it a non-save opportunity so Buehrle finished what he started. Adam Lind came off the bench for a RBI double and Maicer Izturis singled home two. I have to say the most embarrassing thing to the game was that Jose Reyes was on first and he is usually fast and the guy behind him Rajai Davis is like one of the fastest runners and Davis hit into not one but two double plays on ground balls and if it was not for Jose Reyes being tired of being part of double plays on the base pace and getting a double on his third hit of the night, This post goes out to Missy the family will miss you and the Rogers Box will not look the same when it gets colder (MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW) Tom Mehegan

Jays pimp homers early but has nothing late

Jays pimped out three homers before the fourth inning and Edwin Encarnacion pimping it in the second and J.P. pimped a solo shot to lead off the third inning and when Jose Bautista pimped his second ball of the game in the third (he pimped his long fly ball out in the first) a two-run shot to make it 4-1 it looked good against David Price. When Colby Rasmus came up with the bases juiced with two out in the third it looked like Price was going to start his Rogers Centre popcorn eating but when Price got him to foul out to end the inning his popcorn got stale as he lasted four more innings and gave up only one hit. Standing @ home plate and watching the ball leaving the yard is called pimping a homer and it is not something a team that is now 5 games under 500 (45-50) is not the right way to handle yourself on the field and it makes the Jays put the ass in class and it really shows a bunch of players who basically felt the entitlement of being the best team in baseball without stepping on the field and playing a game. When they did finally played a regular season game and it was a struggling to get on the same page and piling up win after win became harder then they thought and it still have not humbled them as they still the cats mow. So if the Jays put the ass in class then the Tampa Bay Rays the class in classy as they battled back to take a 8-5 victory to go up 15 games above 500 (56-41) in second place behind the soxs which is a far cry from the bottom feeding Jays as they took advantaged of Esmil Rogers as they hit four sole homers in 5.2 innings and they ran to first base every time they hit it out. Then when they got into the bullpen the clawed, bit, and scratched 4 runs off the staller Jays bullpen by running out balls to put extra pressure on the Jays fielders and help create two errors and even though J.P. kept the ball in front him and when it got rough he let s ball pass him and in the end Brett Cecil ended up getting the lose as he allowed Kelly Johnson to singled to open the eighth inning and came around to score one of the two runs in the inning after hitting a homer in the sixth inning. Even though the Rays are classy John Madden still spent a long time in the second inning fighting the umps because he felt his team had caught a foul ball off the bat of Colby Rasmus and instead it was ruled after a long debate they decided thr ball was dead and on the next pitch Price k'd Rasmus to end the inning. Madden and the Rays should fell lucky to play half their game @ Tropicana Field where balls can hit catwalks above the field and it is called a bleeping home run. The staff @ the Rogers Centre were kept very busy with annoyed beer girl who spent too much time in a section and got on the nerve of a season ticket holder and then had to make sure the right people had the beers in the stands and kept safe for everyone Tom Mehegan

Jays post all-star changes

To finish of the dog days of the Blue Jays season as they will be seller not buyer once again they will be advised to make changes: 1. Josh Johnson will go anywhere else for less money in the off-season so if u can get something for him most in the national league they should do so. 2. Darren Oliver was forced back to the Jays this past season when he did not want to so if someone wants him they can have for the stretch drive. 3. If the Jays can find a third baseman for the future they need one with Lawrie know at second but that is most likely in the off-season. 4. They will most likely need a fourth and fifth starter for the rest of the season for one and Esmil Rogers may last the rest of July but after that I do not know. So the names in Buffalo are former major leaguer doing well David Bush and maybe if he stays strong for a few more starts Ricky Romero maybe given another chance but not Marcus Stroman. 5. In late August u may see the likes of Brandon Morrow and Sergio Santos returning to the Jays and then maybe when the rosters expand u may see DREW Hutchison and Kyle Drabek along with J.A. Happ, Anthony Gose, Moses Sierra. 6. Dustin McGowan has been solid and might be a good fit on a contender and the Jays worked hard to help him back to the majors and should get something if possible for him. 7. Brett Cecil maybe an option for the starting rotation when things fall apart in the late season with starters but he looks amazing in the bullpen and should stay there. 8. A veteran catcher to teach and push J.P. Arencibia to get better or get out. It will be a tough last two and a half month ride with the Jays Tom Mehegan

10 negatives to the Jays 2013 first half

The Jays who came as the favorites to win the World Series have falling flat on their faces with a 45-49 which is the worst record since 2004 at the all-star break meaning that teams with the likes of Vernon Wells, Alex Rios, A.J. Burnett, Lyle Overbay had a better record than this so-called team. Here are 10 reasons why: 1. Plays not made which goes far beyond their 58 errors meaning an outfielder going back to the wall and sticks out his glove and the ball just misses it and it is a triple and winning run is on third, or dropping a double play ball and getting only one out and they put up runs with their extra outs, or not putting your body in front of a wild pitch/passed ball and a tying runner or winning runner to move up. 2. Josh Johnson has one win on the season in a contract year and it has to be one of the worst seasons with all that money on the line even Melky and Bartolo had all-star seasons before being PED'd. His wife may of put her dislike of coming North for her dislike of how much money her husband has thrown away this season. 3. Mark Buehrle and R.A. Dickey were supposed to give the Jays solid innings and they do eat up inning going through 6 or into the seventh inning but even if the knuckle ball is not knuckling if the Jays battle back and get these two a lead they should be able to put up a few zeros in a row instead of given the lead right back which they have been doing all season. 4. These starters including the flake Brandon Morrow or the hard luck kid J.A. Happ along with any other starter not named Esmil Rogers has not gotten that ball to the pen in the seventh or eighth with led because the Jays leading they are something like 32-0 going into the eighth the lead. 5. AA's rash decision making like Sean Nolin may 24 against the O's 1.1 innings into the game with 6 runs on 7 hits and he is sitting trying figure what happened, Brett Lawrie brought up after two games and 7 at bats of a rehab stint just to come up and not be able to catch up to the major league speed. Then their is Ricky Romero who pitches to low A ball in one games and is brought back and goes throw a major league lineup once well and then falls apart completely and AA has no clue what next to doo with Ricky but if he rushes Marcus Stroman to the majors it will be what kllls his career in his home country. 6. Players believing they are bigger than the team i.e. if Jose Bautista yells at a ump or even looks at a ump in the second have I may have to throw a shoe through my TV or J.P. Arencibia not able to take constructive criticism and go off on former ball players as the reason he can not block the plate or get on the same page as his pitchers. Brett Lawrie may need to take a step back because even though he is Canadian he does not own that clubhouse and he needs to allow other to run things. 7. The k boyz of Colby Rasmus (105 ks) and J.P. Arencibia (98) are way ahead of anybody else oon the team along with their all or nothing swings kill rallies more often than not. 8. The bats do not show up on a nightly bases as they have been shutout 6 times and lose a lot of low scoring 1 and 2 run games and had a battng average of .220 earlier this season and that can not happen. 9. Jays are 25-21 at home which is brutal as they should be at least winning 3 of every 5 home games if not 2 of 3 it is their home and should be clubbing their opponents at home. 20-28 on the road could be closer to .500 but u set your reputation on your home turf and that makes a poor team good and a good team great. 10. Casey Janssen has sat in that Jays bullpen not getting a sniff at a save opportunity and if the Jays gave him more chances they would be a much better team and Janssen would be at the all-star game instead of Delabar. Pre-all-star Jays sucked mightily and it does not look better in the post-all-star game world Tom Mehhegan

10 positive about the Jays first half

It have been a very long tough first half of the Jays 2013 regular season but there are diffidently positives to take away from it: 1. The Bullpen has been unconscious and playing out of their mind and because the starters pitched the second fewest innings 515 innings they needed to pitched 334.2 innings (the most in the majors) and still had an era under 3 (2.90) which was the third best era. 2. Brett Cecil has crawled out from under the rock he was hiding under and he pitched 46.1 innings and has a whip of .97 and at a point he retired 40 straight batters and has a 1.94 ERA. 3. Steve Delabar goes from a substitute teacher to MLB all-star in three years and has blown 58 batters in 42 innings and picked up his first ever save. 4. ESMIL ROGERS has been the best starter for the Jays and has been a rock in the bottom of the rotation with an ERA of 3.29 and has been outstanding besides three batters in St. Petes and a 5 inning performance against hungry Tigers who took him to the woodshed (7 runs on 11 hits). 5. Adam Lind has found himself and was awesome early this season and had a .340 batting average and has slipped a bit now hitting .306 but still has 20 doubles, 11 homers, 37 RBIs with 25 walks. 6. Jose Reyes has only played 28 games and has reached base 26 of those 28 games and is a great leadoff hitter and is the best piece from the Marlins trade. 7. MUNENORI KAWASAKI has been breath of fresh air from a guy who had it all in Japan and came over to North America and quickly learned that the Majors is much different than in Japan and figured out that he just had to have fun and simply just gets it and is the biggest fan favorite I have ever seen in Toronto. 8. Jays have not been able to see great baseball but still have come out in huge numbers to support the team and keep the Rogers Centre a lively place. 9. Edwin Encarnacion and Jose Bautista still have put up all-star numbers with Edwin (25 homers, 16 doubles, and 72 RBIs) and Jose Bautista (20 homers, 20 doubles, 55 RBIs) 10. Casey Janssen is a great closer and has blown only 1 save and had to only be taken out of a save opportunity and ended up racking in 18 of 19 saves and if this team was better he would be an all-star. Lets hope better in the post all-star game but I do not hold hope Tom Mehegan

Marcus Stroman is not ready for the majors

Chien-Ming Wang has been horrible in his last two starts he has given up 13 runs in 3.1 innings pitched and it is time to cut him loose as they did get a three above average and to get starts and picked into the seventh inning of all of those first three starts as a Jay. So with the league catching up with Wong so they need to choose someone else to pitch on Sunday afternoon and here are the choices: 1. is Marcus Stroman who has not pitched a full season in the Jays system including only 42.1 innings pitched and has 4-2 record with a 3.38 ERA this season with the New Hampshire Fisher Cats in his first real test after coming out of college and was chosen 22Nd in the 2012 draft. He does have a 13 k performance tonight but if the Jays want to move him up to triple a Buffalo but it is not an option to bring him to the big smoke because the Jays have been bad decision makers with their young arms as Kyle Drabek, Drew Hutchison, and Luis Perez has all been sent to Dr. Andrews for the Tommy John treatment. 2. David Bush was the starter Buffalo Bisons tonight and went 6 innings 1 run and in his 6 starts he has had 4 good starts and 2 bad starts with his first start (4 runs) and the start before tonight (5 runs) and only 6 runs in those 4 good starts and he would be the pitcher from Buffalo (not Romero leave him alone please) to come up to make the start on Sunday and maybe another before mid-July (all-star break). He is not a kid he is 33 and he has been major league starter from when he came up with the Jays in 2004 and 2010 when he finished with the Brewers after been traded for boo (Lyle) Overbay before the start of the 2006 season. 3. AA could either pluck another pitcher off the wire or make a trade for another pitcher and I do not think they will trade for someone before the break but the wire is possible. 4. They could bullpen the game just like they did with Esmil Rogers his first two starts and workout well for the Jays It will help the Jays til Sunday as they will be able to bring up Anthony Gose or Moses Sierra to help fill in for the group of aligning Jays Adam Lind, Edwin Encarnacion, and J.P. Arencibia and be the Jays DH or taken one of the outfielder and putting them in as the DH. The Jays are hurting Tom Mehegan

Adam Lind had a great first half but maybe a question mark in the second half of 2012

Adam Lind was off the charts with his numbers (.329 batting average, 11 homers, 12 doubles, 33 RBIs in 67 games) in his first half and was a well rounded player and cleanup hitter and played some solid first baseman. Then in the 81St game of the regular season which is the half way point of the 2012 regular season for the Blue Jays he had to pull himself out of the lineup to start the bottom of the third for Josh Thole with a stiff back which is nagging injury and will be day-to-day but it will be an on going injury will likely be in and out of the lineup from day-to-day. The Jays diffidently missed him as they battled back from a Red Sox three-run second inning by getting a Jose Bautista solo jack with one out in the top of the ninth to tie the game at 4 and Josh Thole had a ground ball off the bat of Shane Victorino with runners on first and second with one out and he booted it and winning run scored from second instead of it being the second out to take it 5-4 and 3 of 4 from the Jays. It could of been a two-run go ahead homer as the Red Sox's Shane Victorino made a diving catch off the bat of Jose Reyes to open the ninth inning and it would of been time for Casey Janssen to shut it down and instead Juan Perez came in from the pen and gave up an one out singled and followed it up with a walk and ended up being the losing pitcher. Mark Buehrle after given up 3 runs on four hits in the second inning and after he hit Jacoby Ellsbury with one out in the inning he set down 8 straight Sox hitters and he battled through 6 innings and only gave up a run on 3 hits over his last 3.2 inning pitched and he showed that he can stay focused and when things go bad unlike Wong and Johnson were unable to regain their stuff when it went bad in the first two games of the Sox series. Jose Bautista is heating up going into the second half as he has had 5 hits including three homers and has reached base 5 times in the last two games and will need to pick up the slack with absence of Adam Lind as he may not be an everyday player like he was in the first half except for his injury in the first half. R.A. Dickey will need to put his best foot forward tomorrow against the high powered Detroit Tigers in front of a sod out crowd at the Rogers Centre which is not the 50 plus thousand that it was in the beginning of the Rogers Centre (late 80's and early 90's) but it will be a loud crowd and the environment will be awesome. Great 18-9 June but they needed a better road trip falling 5 of the 7 games against the Rays and the Sox Tom Mehegan 7.Shane Victorino

Esmil Rogers does everything that the Jays need him to do and more

Esmil Rogers who has come out of the bullpen like Luis Perez and Carlos Villanueva in spades for the Jays when they need it the most with starters Josh Johnson and J.A. Happ along Brandon Morrow not able to make some of their starts this season Rogers has been put into the fire. For a guy that they got for John Farrell (Mike Avila) and Yan Gomez (the first Brazilian major league baseball player) it has turned out to be a great deal and has taken some of the bitter taste of Mike Avila being another player that did not want to play in Canada. So in 6 starts he has gotten stronger especially over his first 4 starts going from a three-hitter over 3.1 innings against Atlanta to a 1 run on 3 hit effort against Texas and then faced Texas again and out dueled Yu Darvish with a 7 inning victory with a run on 5 hit performance which was followed by a 2 runs on 4 performance against the Rockies over 6.1 innings. He then like most other Jays died in the dead stadium that the Rays play in St. Pete's and gave up back-to-back-to-back homers to the Rays in the second and pulled through it pitching another 4 innings and left given up the three runs on 7 hits. So today going into Fenway after Wong and Johnson just could not handle the heat with Wong given up 7 in 1.1 innings and Josh Johnson going 3.1 and gave up 5 and not able to help the Jays bullpen it was up to Rogers to create the relief the bullpen needed with a 6 hit shutout over 6 innings and behind the great d help he got behind him with amazing head first dive by Colby Rasmus in the fifth stealing a hit along with a RBI from the Red Sox's Jonathan Diaz with one out and a runner on second the Jays carried a very tiny 2-0 lead into the Seventh. Jose Bautista did everything for the Jays he throw out Shane Victorino in the sixth for the first out of the sixth as J.P. Arencibia blocked the plate and tagged him out and with runners on the corners Rogers struck out Mike Napoli and Daniel Nava back-to-back to end his day at 100 pitches. Offensively Bautista reached base four times as he walked and stole second and on a Edwin Encarnacion single was out at third but not before he got in a run down to make sure Edwin was at second which setup an Adam Lind RBI single to make it 1-0 Jays. In the sixth Bautista doubles the lead by playing with the cars in the parking lot a he launched a 2-0 fastball to left field and right out of Fenway to make it 2-0 Jays. Then the Jays stellar bullpen starting with Darren Oliver came in and the soxs took a real liken to him as Jarrod Saltalamacchia crushed the first pitch he saw to the wall and Rajai Davis played it perfectly and was only a single and Jose Iglesias on the next pitch got a bunt single to Maicer Izturis who throw the ball away so Saltalamacchia got to third. A couple of pitches later Jonathan Diaz bunted a ball back to Oliver who throw homw and J.P. blocked the plate for the first out of the inning as he got run over by Saltalamacchia but held onto the ball to keep it 2-0. Then Steve Delabar came in throwing heat but Jacoby Ellsbury singled to load the bases and Shane Victorino singled home two to tie the game and then Delabar got Dustin Pedroia to fly out dto Bautista and David Ortiz got k'd to end the inning. Bautista was not done as he smoked a ball on top of the monster in the eighth for a two-run shot off Junichi Tazawa to make it 4-2 and in the ninth J.P. Arencibia got some justice as finally got a hit as he eat up Mike Napoli behind first base and went to second when Napoli misses the ball and it went down the first baseline and Jose drove him home as he scratched a ball through third baseman Jonathan Diaz which should of been his fourth rib of the day but it was called an error and he caught at third trying to stretch it to third and the Jays win 6-2. Mike Napoli had a very tough day at the office he got k'd four times as the Jays worked most pitches inside and then go away for the k but he does have 5 homers and 13 rbis in 10 games so the error not feel as bad but probably does. Delabar pick up the win going 1.2 innings and 4ks as k'd the Sox's 1-2-3 in the eighth and now Buehrle will be looking for the split in Beantown Tom mehgan

Munenori Kawasaki heading to Buffalo to make room fot Reyes

Munenori Kawasaki ys the odd man out is off the Jays 25-man roster to make room for Jose Reyes who is coming off the DL in time for the finale in St. Petes against the Tampa Bay Rays as the Jays have to lick their wounds and it will be an extremely quick turnaround with first pitch just after high noon. It is great to have Jose Reyes back at shortstop and has played 10 games this season and after walking in the season opener he in the next 9 games he collected at least a hit in each game so he has safely reached base on all the game he has played in. He has been diffidently missed in the last 65 games and will better the team at the plate and in the field. The only thing that surprised me is that Munenori Kawasaki is the odd man as I am not sure if Jose Reyes will be able to play every inning and Munenori Kawasaki will be missed in the clubhouse as livened up the clubhouse and kept everyone at ease and help to lift the Jays to the 11 game win streak and putting together a 15-4 June going into the last two games and are still 15-6 this month of June. After a rocky start he settled down and became a Toronto icon with great sound bites and put a great show on the field with his deep knee bends and then he would of helped fill in late in games just like Rajai Davis replaces Melky late in games. In the end Munenori Kawasaki would of been the 25 man on the roster and it really does not matter who is that last guy but I feel that he should still be on the roster and have a guy like Dustin McGowan being sent down to Buffalo or Mark DeRosa beimg put on wavier and him bring picked up by one of the other 29 teams unlike McGowan who would clear waivers still be in the organization and the bullpen goes from 8 to 7 pitchers. If DeRosa leaves then Edwin Encarnacion would be the back-up third baseman when Maicer Izturis need a blow and would fill the bill until Brett Lawrie is 100% and is back on the roster and that should of been the time that Kawasaki should of been sent down to Buffalo. The Jays need to pick themselves up off the mat again Tom Mehegan

Jays roll to 11 straight as Johnson pick up first as Jay

Josh Johnson has finally picked up his first victory as a Jay as the Jays rolled the O's 13-5 as Edwin Encarnacion put together a three-hit afternoon including a two-run homer and a two-run double respectively in the second and third inning as the had it cruisin' mood after three innings up 9-0. So Johnson look comfortable through 5 as he gave up only 3 hits and no runs and with the Jays up big he gave up back-to-back doubles to Manny Machado and Nick Markakis respectively and Markakis scored on a fielding error by Emilio Bonifacio on a ball hit by Chris Davis. He came back out in the seventh and faced two batters and second one was Ryan Flaherty who hit his first of two homers in the game a two-run shot that had Josh Johnson leaving given up 4 runs on 7 hits with 5 ks and a walk that will hopefully a jump off point for him. In seventh the Jays put together three straight hits to open the inning started by Colby Rasmus who hit solo shot to make it 10-4 and then J.P. collected his third hit in the game and reached base four times in the game as he opened the scoring by being hit by a pitch with bases juiced in the first. He was moved to third by a double by hot hitting Maicer Izturis who had two hits in the game but with no outs they stood their ground as Bonifacio and Kawasaki both grounded out and that is when things got interesting as the pitcher that gave up Rajai Davis game winning hit on Friday Pedro Strop came in to face Rajai and on a 1-2 pitch got him square in the back to load the bases and Rajai throw his hands up to the Jays dugout in like what gives. Then Jose Bautista unloaded the bases with a three run double and make it 13-4 which was almost matched by massive two-run shot by Edwin who just hit it foul. Ryan Flaherty hit a no doughtier off Dustin McGowan who came into pitch the ninth and is one of the guys leaving to make room for Reyes tomorrow but Kawasaki even though he was the only Jay to not reach base also does not look like the guy being taken of this team either. The Jays have gotten 45 thousand or more in 8 games this season and have swept a home stand of 6 or more for the first time in 5 years and have tied the longest winning streak in franchise at 11 that has been done twice before. REYES and the Jays head to St. Pete's to face the Tampa Bay Rays which is not the happiest play in the world for the Jays Tom Mehegan

Darren Oliver may have thrown his last pitch but also may have left a winner

Darren Oliver came into the eighth inning of a 2-1 Jays lead with a nine game winning streak on the line and Casey Janssen warming behind him and with one out he gave up a solo shot to the ninth batter in the O's lineup catcher Taylor Teagarden and then gave up a single to leadoff hitter Nate McLouth who he then picked off as he throw at the right as he off and running to second and was tagged out by Munenori Kawasaki. So with two outs Oliver k'd Manny Machado to end the inning and maybe his 20 year career as the Jays have a decision to make on Monday so they can open a spot on the team for returning shortstop Jose Reyes which could spell the end for Darren Oliver and if that does happen Jose Bautista made sure that he left a winner as the guy who was 0 for 7 coming into the bottom of the eighth in the series and 4 for 37 in the 9 game winning streak crushed a 3-2 pitch with two outs for a two-run homer to make it 10 in a row as Casey Janssen still was able to close up his 17 save on the season on only 13 pitches and 22 total on back-to-back saves. So the reason that I believe that Darren Oliver is ready to retire is No.1 he has pitched in 11 games in just under two month after pitching in 9 games in the first three and a half weeks of the season. No.2 is that he did himmed and haud about coming back for the 20Th season and did it only because the Jays waived 4 mil in his face and it still was not a guarantee that he has coming back. To say he is the only one to be here against his will is not true at all as Josh Johnson has made it very clear that his wife did not want him here and through his agent publicly hinted that he wants to a Yank and has let everything get to him with everything on the line meaning his retirement contract that will fall way short of the 150 and 160 range it was looking like before the season started as he is still looking for his first win of the season tomorrow as the Jays look towards 11 straight coming off a 7.1 5 hitter against the Rockies on Monday. Lets not forget that R.A. Dickey and Mark Buehrle did not come to the big smoke prepared but they are fighters and are fighting to get back what they know a.k.a. eating inning and putting their teams in positions to win the 'the ballgame' as Jerry says and Darren and Josh do not look like they have that fight. It is not a given that Darren retires so the other bullpen option would be a sad one as Dustin McGowan would be designed for assignment and put on waivers and this would happen because he would most likely clear wavier and go back to Buffalo as it is unlikely any other team in the majors would a 25-man roster spot for him. If the Jays to keep the 4 right/4 lefty bullpen and exchange a bat for a bat then it would be decision of either keeping Mark DeRosa or Munenori Kawasaki who did crush a ball second deck but a couple of seats foul from having homers in back-to-back games after none in his first 116 games. If Munenori Kawasaki is not the 25 man I would be stunned because he would be that perfect 25 man keeping the clubhouse light and being the glue that keeps everything going in the right direction much more than that epic fail of a clubhouse meeting hosted by DeRosa at the end of April. Jose has chosen his spots well as he is 6 for 40 (150) in the 10 game win strak as he started it in Chicago with a last strike opportunity down one and tied it up with a homer and hopefully just continued it with his two out two-run homer to give the Jays a 4-2 victory. It will all not really matter as the 25 man is not a big deal

Munenori Kawasaki first ever major league homer leads Jays to 9 straight

Munenori Kawasaki who is trying to out last either Mark DeRosa or Maicer Izturis as the 25 man on the Jays major league roster when the Jays leadoff hitter Jose Reyes makes his way up from Buffalo in his 117 major league game in his 247 at bat hit his first ever homer a two-run bomb with two outs in the seventh inning to tie the game @ 6. Kawasaki homer saved R.A. Dickey bacon as he rockin' and rolling through the O's as he gave up a J.J. Hardy solo blast on two hits and a hit batter and on a two-run blast in first and a Kawasaki RBI single in the fifth and the Jays took a 3-1 lead after five. In the sixth he let up and gave up a 4 spot as he gave up a Adam Jones RBI single with two on and Chris came up and launched three-run blast which was his 27th homer and the O's took a 5-3 lead and then Edwin launched a solo shot in the sixth and in the seventh Dickey gave it back by given up lead-off homer by Ryan Flaherty and walked Danny Valencia and then he was pulled for Brett Cecil who faced five batters and retired all of them and picked off Danny Valencia @ first to get it to the ninth and now retired 41 straight batters. Rajai Davis replaced Melky Cabrera in the Seventh and came up with a single in the seventh and in the ninth he came back up with two on and drove home Maicer Izturis to send the Jays into cloud 9 and when his feet hit the ground he was missing his Jersey and fixing his under shirt. Jays keep rollin' and it is a very happy place right now and when Jose Reyes comes back on Monday he will be more ready then Brett Lewrie was when he came earlier as he has been playing almost a week in the system not only getting 7 at bats but that decision on 25th guy will be interesting as they may choose to ease Reyes back and take him out late or maybe they decide to have a guy like Kawasaki in the clubhouse and let go of either Izturis or Derosa more likely the latter as he is the one sitting on the bench. They could also have R.A. throw a knuckleball in everybody's face and take an arm out of that pen. Things are a happenin' @ (Ted) Rogers Centre and if the last guy is the talk everything is A O K Tom Mehegan

Adam Lind sweeps away the Rockies

Adam Lind a .340 hitter is one of the quietest .340 as fans were sitting on their hands every time he stepped to the plate but really Jose Bautista is the only batter getting a reaction for the Jays. Adam Lind finished off the ballgame as Jerry would say with one out in the bottom of the first as stepped up after Bautista reached base on a throwing error by third baseman Nolan Arenado and then Edwin Encarnacion grounded a ball into right field and then finished off Juan Nicasio with a three-run homer and the Jays eased to a 5-2 victory. Adam could of had a monster game and blow up the Rockies real good in the seventh with a run and one on and two out with Edwin stepping up and Rob Scahill on the mound and the Rockies had a meeting on the mound and he then throw a ball directly at him and hit him to the ground which brought Adam back to the plate and with Josh Outman on the mound a rocked a ball to right field and felt like another three-run bomb but Michael Cuddyer made the catch to end the inning. Mark Buehrle was rocked around in the first two inning and did not break as he gave up 5 hits and one run and left 4 on base and the Jays had a 3-1 after two rolled the third and fourth leaving a runner on each inning and in the fifth inning he allowed a homer to Carlos Gonzalez who now has 21 homers on the season. Buehrle pitched 5 innings and he gave up 2 runs on 8 hits with 2 walks and left 8 batters on the bases and it was not the greatest outing but now is a 4-4 record on the season with a 4.60 ERA but he held it together. The pitchers that bridge the gap between Buehrle and closer Casey Janssen throw the heat as they k'd 7 of the 10 batters they faced as Wagner k'd 2 and Brett Cecil throw nine pitches and all were strikes and k'd 2 and then Steve Delabar k'd three batters after the first. Casey Janssen came in and blow apart the first two batters and then got tight and gave up a hit and finally got the third out. Also when Wagner came in for Buehrle was a risk to my health as one foul ball flew over my head on my left and then a ball went second level on my right but the 27 plus were more alive than the last time I saw Buehrle pitch live. Juan Nicasio for the Rockies gave up 4 runs (2 earn runs) on 4 hits with given up on two errors Tom Mehegan

Dustin McGowan road back to Major League was as long as Jays win in 18 innings

Dustin McGowan came in the tenth inning of a 3-3 and faced four batters and retired only one and loaded bases in his first major league appearance since September 28TH, 2011 and in the last 32 month he has been injured with a right shoulder and an injured foot. He did very well today on the mound after he walked his leadoff hitter Lance Berkman he got a double play ball off the bat of Adrian Beltre to Mark DeRozan but he dropped the ball twice and everybody was safe and then hit Nelson Cruz to load the bases and then faced Jeff Baker the same guy who broke up Dustin McGowan's no-hitter on July 24,2007 as a Jay against the Rockies during his best season in the majors and McGowan struck him out and then was lifted for Juan Perez who got an inning ending double play off the bat of Leonys Martin. The game lasted 18 innings and in the 18 inning with the Rangers Ross Wolf who pitched the last 7inning until he tried to pick off attempt of Emilio Bonifacio at second base and he throw it away and he ended up at third and Rajai Davis drove him home with a single to win the game. The Jays were silent in the game as they had 15 hits in 17.2 inning game and they got a huge two-run triple by Colby Rasmus in the third inning and came home on a throwing error on Jurickson Profar as he tried to get Rasmus at third and throw it into the crowd and the Jays held onto that 3-0 lead til the seventh inning as Mark Buehrle gave up only two hits going into the inning and then gave up a solo shot to Jeff Baker and a double to Craig Gentry and finished seven strong of four hit ball. In the ninth inning Casey Janssen came in try to cement down his 13 save of the season and first time this season he failed as he gave up an one out single to Leonys Martin and most importantly his second walk of the season to David Murphy as he came around and tied up the game as he scored on a sac fly by Elvis Andrus after A. J. Pierzynski singled home by Leonys Martin. The Crowd of over 44 thousand was there to see Yu Darvish who pitched 7 innings and gave up hits to only two batters as he gave up two hits to Colby Rasmus and 3 of the 4 hits that Adam Lind had was against Darvish who gave up 3 runs on those 5 hits. Adam Lind is now hitting .342 and is hitting .500 (13 of 26) in 6 June games and 27 of 56 in his last 14 games Jays should ask for next Saturday as they play 17 innings last week and 18 today Tpm Mehegan

Ricky Romero is off the 40-man roster and will be able to get his stuff in order

Ricky Romero has all the time in the world to get his head fixed and be able to take baby steps to get his career back on track as he is now off the 40-man roster as he cleared waivers and was not claimed by one of the other 29 major league teams. So he can stop pressing so hard to get out of Buffalo and just head back to LA and maybe find a sports therapist that can help find the meaning for his problems like breaking up with miss USA a couple of years ago or trying to keep his brother from hitting Jays female staff members or whatever else is on his mind. Also he can forget about baseball until he is in a better head space as he will not be anywhere near the majors until he is better as he will not be called for because someone will have to waived to get him back with the team and that is not this season. In the end it is the best thing that the Jays could of done for him because it is a hall pass or a get out of jail free card and he is being given the chance to find himself without a guy looking over his shoulder saying "are u better yet" Tom Mehegan

Munenori Kawasaki is aToronto Hero and Brett Lawrue is still notToronto villain yet

So Munenori Kawasaki after his game-ending two run double yesterday against Jim Johnson (who know Ricky was not the only player lacking confidence) he got the biggest cheers of the starting lineup and only other to get a cheer was Reed Johnson of came back to Toronto as a Brave. Brett Lawrie got the same response as everybody else including Jose Bautista and even a tribute to Ted Rogers who would been celebrated his 80TH birthday today and would of been crickets. As the game started it was quiet except for the big hits and in a 9-3 beat up on the Braves starting with Edwin Encarnacion who had two huge hits in the game starting in third with a two-run single and in the seventh inning he came up against Colby Rasmus's younger brother Cory Rasmus and he smoked a three-run homer and finished with 5 RBIs in the game. Colby launched a two-run homer in the second inning to get the Jays up 2-0 and J.P. Arencibia finished off Tim Hudson with a two-run homer as he gave up 6 runs on 8 hits over six innings. Brett Lawrie won the crowd over running out an infield hit in fourth inning and got a big cheer in the sixth inning when he stepped to the plate and he responded by delivering another single and crowd loved him then stole second of course he hurt himself on the slide and was replaced Mark Derosa and now is again day-to-day with an ankle Sprain but left with the crowd on his side. Mark Buerhle pitched well through the first three innings and allowed only two walks and he last 6 innings and in the fourth his no-no was broken up by Evan Gattis with two outs in the fourth and then in the fifth gave up an Andrelton Simmons RBI single to break up the shutout and ended up given up a run on 6 hits with two walks and throw 67 strikes on 110 pitches and was 2 strikes for every ball. Things got silly in the dugouts after Evan Gattis hit a two-run homer off Brad Lincoln and had a choose words for Arencibia and when Arencibia got back to the dugout he told his teammates what was said and they started pointing fingers at each other, Colby faced younger brother Cory and after a big battle and in the end Colby winning out getting a double

jays need not rush Josh Johnson back

Jays are having a tough time getting back into the playoff picture at 20-29 trailing the Yankees by 10 in the division and the Red Soxs by 9.5 in the wild card and the Cleveland Indians by 7.5 in the Wild card and sit dead last in the American League East. With all this said there is no need to rush Josh Johnson back to the big Leagues as it is in everybody's interest to not bring him up until he is strong enough to handle major league batters because Johnson wants to prove to the rest of the league he is worth 150 million over 6 or 7 years. He wants to prove it to everybody else because he has shown an interest to not be a Blue Jay as his agent before the season started said that the Jays have too much starting pitcher and that they should send Josh Johnson to the Yankees for a bat and he made fun of how much his wife did not want to go to Toronto to a Florida radio station days after the deal was finalized. So when he comes up to the Jays he wants to be 100% and put as many wins as possible and the lowest ERA possible so that he can make that cabbage back South of the boarder. For the Jays sake they should know better to rush guys back to the majors just look at Ricky Romero 3 innings to start and went throw the lineup but then was smacked around in the fourth and then in his next outing faced 7 batters and got only one out and now is suffering from confidence as triple A batters are using him like a piñata. Then there is the lightening rode known as Brett Lawrie who is hitting just over .200 right now at ,203 after an injury and only 7 at bats in two games to get his bat major league ready and that was not enough time and him and the team have paid for the bad decision. Then there is last night starter Sean Nolin who had two minor league starts in double A this season before he was brought up and feed to the wolves known as the Baltimore Orioles as he pitched an inning and a third and gave up 6 runs on 7 hits and a walk and needed to comforted on the bench after he was pulled and hopefully he can go back to double A and better himself and when his time comes he will be back, So the Jays need to get him 100% before bring him up as it maybe in their best interest to trade him at the deadline and get something that will help in the long term and better he performs the more interest there maybe but it will be extremely hard to keep him down in Buffalo as he followed up a single A outing of three innings where he k'd 5 with a four inning performance in triple A Buffalo today as gave up one hit and a walk and k'd 3 with 10 of 14 first pitch strikes. So I hope double A and the Jays have learned their lesson and keep him their two more starts at least TOM mehegan

Jays rough up Dempster to win series

Today the Jays finally were able to put that John Farrell guy in his place sort of as they won their second series of the season and yes we are 39 games in and only two series victories and both on the road. As the Jays bounced back from a errors than hits game Friday night as they lost 5-0 with 2 errors and 1 hit to pick up a ninth inning victory behind Adam Lind's ninth inning homer giving the Jays a 3-2 edge on Saturday. Then today against more trouble trying to keep the ball in the ball park than he did trying to find his passport last season with the Rangers as he was not able to pitch at the Rogers Centre last season because he could not find his passport and he is Canadian go figure. So he gave up 3 of the 5 homers the Jays hit as he gave up 6 on 7 hits and only Jose Bautista's third inning shot that a row or two away from messing up cars again was hit harder than Shane Victorino hitting the wall to the Jays bullpen in the fourth as he fell to the ground as he wind knocked out of him but I thing he was stunned that Emilio Bonifacio actually hit a homer and to that point a two run homer and to take it a step further fell only triple short of the cycle (yes three hits and I'm not dreaming). The Jays looked to a pitcher again that had only pitched one game so far this season and unlike Ricky Romero Chad Jenkins was able to focus with a runner on base and knew how to throw strikes as he was ahead of the Soxs batters all day long and he went 5.1 innings and gave up a homer to that throne in my side Mike Napoli in the fourth and that guy who doubles in the sixth to move Dustin Pedroia and knock Jenkins out of the ball game. He gave up two runs on 7 hits walking only one and k'd two and he throw 58 of his 90 pitches for strikes and he has only a fastball nothing really else and that show the power of the placement of the ball and helped the clock the Soxs to the tune of 12-4. Jays got on top of a three hit night from Bonifacio a two homer night and a walk and score all three times while Encarnacion hit a solo digger in the fifth and Lawrie in the sixth as the Jays pounded out 12 runs on 12 hits and walked three times. They went 3 for 5 in runners in scoring position today while Boston Only had 3 hits with runners in scoring position all series. So that throne in my side had three hits in the game and diffidently likes hitting against the Jays even though he never ever wanted to play for the Jays. So the team wants to be the Giants are coming to town on Tuesday with their two rings in the last three seasons and it is contract season for the 3 and 1 Tim Hudson

J.A. Happ is a very very lucky guy

J.A. Happ was an amazing lucky guy last night as Desmond Jennings scotched a ball back at him and it hit him behind his left ear and it was a very scary moment for J.A. Happ as got a fractured skull and he had 9 staples behind his ear. He lay on the mound for a good 15-20 seconds before medics could go out to see him as the play just kept going as Jennings end up on third because Bautista did not use his baseball fundamentals as he did not immediately go after the ball and those extra seconds before the play was over could of been life or death. So he survived the waiting time on the mound and thankfully he did not go to sleep which he may have not woken up from. J.A. Happ should be extremely thankful that the worst of his injuries maybe either a knee injury or an ankle sprain because of how he went down after being hit and then his nerves maybe gone and his confidence maybe gone as well as he may end up having nightmares about being on the mound. He has been put on the 15-day DL and will be on it for a bit longer than that and maybe moved to the 30 or 60 day DL and the guy right now who is kicking himself right now is Aaron Laffey decided last Tuesday that he did bot want to go down the QEW to Buffalo and instead became a free agent and is in the Dodgers organization in triple A instead of the No. 4 Starter for the Toronto Blue Jays. The Guy gets that opportunity right now is Edgar Gonzalez who in two relief opportunities with the Jays gave up two runs in 3.2 innings pitched. Happ is out of hospital and very thankful while the Jays have a three game winning streak going Tom Mehegan

Ricky Romero showed the good and the bad

Ricky Romero went head-to-head with King Felix and the Mariners and it looked very good through the order he allowed only a single to Kyle Seager and he was doubled up on a double play ball off the bat of Kendrys Morales and 33 pitches later he was through the first three innings. To start the fourth inning Ricky started Michael Saunders with a first pitch strike to make it 8 of the first 10 batters he faced with a strike but that is were everything goes off the rails as Saunders walks and Seager took him deep and Romero began felling discomfort on his middle finger on his left pitching hand and he hit Morales and k'd Michael Morse before loading the bases by walking Jason Bay and Justin Smoak which lead to a RBi single to Dustin Ackley before having Jesus Montero hit him in his left pitching arm but was able to get the force at home and then got Brendan Ryan to pop out to end the inning. So Romero went through the order the second time all in the fourth inning and gave up 3 runs on two hits, three walks, and a hit batter and it was the same 2012 Romero who could not handle the heat and was wanting out of the kitchen and was not able to and it took 37 pitches to get out of the fourth inning. King Felix allowed 6 base runners over 8 innings and he throw only 95 pitches and the Jays hitters helped the King out by hitting the ball three times to Kyle Seager who the first two times went 5-4-3 for the double play and the third he caught a line drive by Maicer Izturis with runners on the corners and Colby Rasmus was so excited at first that he moved to second and was doubled up for the second out of the eighth inning which came after Edwin hit a double play ball in the seventh and erased a Bautista single. In the end Romero has more work to do but for his second outing after spring training with the first being to a high single A club Tom Mehegan

Jays still not getting the bounces

It looked like the Jays were finally going to get some breaks as they took an early 3-0 on Cece Sabathia as Maicer Izturis who had three hits lined a ball into Eduardo Nunez's glove and hit it so hard that it fell out for a base hit and then Emilio Bonifacio doubled down the line for a double at third as Jason Nix was pinching in for a bunt and Rajai Davis grounded out for a 1-0 lead in the third. The Jays also had Bonifacio at third with Melky Cabrera at the plate and CeCe throw a pitch in the dirt and if it was the Jays that ball would of gone up the first base line and the run scored but Chris Seward blocked it so the run did not score. In the fourth the Jays got solo shots from Jose Bautista to lead off and with one out Brett Lawrie drove in Edwin from third as Edwin singled and was moved over by J.P. Arencibia on a ground ball and moved to third on a pass ball by catcher Chris Steward and on the fly ball to right by Lawrie ichiro had Edwin at the plate but Steward dropped the ball as he went to tag Edwin. So in the bottom of the inning J.A. Happ who usually bends but does not break just could not find the plate to the first two batters he faced Vernon Wells and Kevin Youkilis as he throw 9 pitches total to them (8 balls and a stike) and walked them to bring up Travis Hafner and on a 2-1 pitched showed J.A. where the Yankees bullpen is as he hit a three-run homer just over the bullpen to tie up the game for the Yankees. This turned the game from good to bad for the Jays as they started the five inning with Davis and Cabrera both singled but the Jays heart of the order Bautista (flied out), Edwin (shapely lined to left), and J.P. (k'd on a foul tip) and the runners did not move up. Then the lead off hitter in the sixth Brett Lawrie hits a solo shot and with a hit from the guys in front of him the Jays would of been up more than 4-3 and J.A. Happ left after 6 given up 3 runs on 6 hits with 5 ks and 2 walks and was able to keep the Jays in the game. The Jays got a very long and loud out from Jose Bautista to end in the seventh and a couple innings earlier it would of been a sac fly but center fielder Brett Gardner made the catch to end the inning and in the bottom of the inning Esmil Rogers in with the game tied on a Vernon Wells single Travis Hafner hit the ball to the same place as Bautista but Rajai gets turned around and it ends up as a game -winning triple 5-4. CeCe who was on the ropes in the top of the fifth went 8 and gave up 4 runs on 9 hits with 3 ks and no walks while Joba Chamberlain came in for the ninth and k'd pinch hitter Colby Rasmus which is the nothing part of all or nothing but then gave up singles to Maicer Izturis (who was pinched run for by Munenori Kawasaki) and Bonifacio which was on a bounce throw by Jayson Nix but Kevin Youkillis got out in front of the base and smothered the ball and if it was the Jays it would been heading into the dugout and both runners would of been in scoring position and the run would of either scored on Rajai shallow fly ball to right or Melky Cabrera's ground ball to Nix who had the ball eat him up for a split second before beating Kawasaki) to the bag at third to end the game. Jays were 0 for 9 with runners in scoring position Tom Mehegan

Jays taught a lesson in one run games

So once again the O's picked up one run victory over the Jays 2-1 with a RBI base hit down the left field line by Nick Markakis in the bottom of the ninth which was setup by Chris Davis being hit by Arron Loup's first pitch to lead off the inning. With two outs he intentionally walked Nolan Reimold to bring up Alexi Casilla and Loup got the inning ending ground ball to Munenori Kawasaki but he bounced the ball to first and the throwing error loaded the bases and Markakis was the first extra batter an on a 0-2 pitch he gave up the line drive to end the game. The Jays and the O's got into a very tight pitchers duel as the Jays got a four hit performance over 6 plus innings from J.A. Happ and got 6 ks over the first three innings and ended up with those 6 ks and two walks and kept the Jays in the game against O's starter Chris Tillman who gave up four hits over 6.2 innings and walked 3 and k'd 3 Jays. The O's got on the board first as they got a run in the sixth inning as they put together two singles two open from Manny Machado and Adam Jones that both hit the ball off the glove of Brett Lawrie and to make it worse J.A. Happ throw a wild pitch that went off the glove of J.P. Arencibia and moved the up 90 feet and took away the chance of the double play. This was costly as Matt Wieters grounded a double play ball to Munenori Kawasaki and he was able to hold the runners and get the first out of the inning and in the end Chris Davis got a sac fly to make it 1-0. The Jays evened the score in the top of the seventh with Edwin Encarnacion on first and two ks after Adam Lind got retired for the fist time in 10 at bats they got back-to-back singles from J. P. Arencibia and then a RBI single from Colby Rasmus but then Emilio Bonifacio got k'd to end the inning by Tillman. The bullpens were solid with Loup given up the only hit by either pen and it was the game winner and hid biggest mistake was hitting Chris Davis to open the ninth and it hurt as the Jays fell just short and left Steve Delabar's 2 innings of no hit ball with 3 ks and a walk very lonely. Darren O'Day went 1.1 innings and only walked 2 and 2 ks and their closer came in and went 1-2-3 through the Jays and picked up the victory. Adam Lind is getting hot and hopefully more are ready to get hot as the pitching is hitting their stride Tom Mehegan

Jays a step behind Yanks in extras

The Jays really just kicked themselves over and over and over again in the middle game of a three game series against the New York Yankees as they only had two hits and were down 3-0 going into the bottom of the eighth and over 46 thousand were sleeping including myself. This was because one the Jays had only two bloody hits and when the Jays actually walked like J.P. in the second inning after battling back from a 0 - 2 count to walk in a 7 pitch at bat he decides that he is walking before the ump makes his call and he is one of the 20 k'd Jays in the first two games of the series instead of the 5 Jay to walk and all because he decided to not to wait for the ump's call and Jose did it on a 3 and 1 count in the Jays eighth inning and learned his lession and walked on the next pitch. The Jays bats were finding fielders like when Edwin lined out to Eduardo Nunez to end the first inning with a Melky Cabrera double on and former Jay Jason Nix catches a very sharply hit ball by Munenori Kawasaki in the third. While the Jays D are not as sharp as Maicer Izturis dropped the start of a double play as he dropped the throw by Munenori Kawasaki in the fourth of the bat of former Jay Vernon Wells and it cost starter Mark Buehrle 10 pitches but not a run. Also in the fifth Kevin Youkilis hit a ball to Brett Lewrie with one out and the bases juiced and Lawrie jumps for sharply hit ball and did not need to jump as it goes off him for two runs and the 3-0 lead which could of been the second out of the inning and the Jays only down 1-0. It still continued as Colby Rasmus is at the wall on a ball hit by former Jay Lyle Overbay and it turns into a double because Colby Rasmus glove is just a tiny bit to the right of the ball. Mark Buehrle kept the Jays in the game as he pitched 7 innings and gave up 3 runs on on 8 hits an intentional walk to load the bases in the fifth for Kevin Youkilis and throw 108 pitches including the intentional 4 and the extra 10 because of the D while the Jays only had Melky's double to that point in the game. While the Yanks countered with Hiroki Kuroda who through six inning gave up one hit and it was the eighth inning that he gave up a hit to Colby Rasmus with one out and left given up 3 hits for David Robertson who blew up really good and the Jays put another two singles and a couple of walks all with two outs and scored three runs to tie up the ball game at 3 with a RBI single Rajai Davis and a two-run RBI single by Melky Cabrera. It got to extras and the Jays got a single by Maicer Izturis to lead off the tenth and after the Jays first sac bunt of the season which came from Emilio Bonifacio he was standing at second with one out for the top of the order and Rajai popped out and Melky grounded out to leave the winning run at second. In the top of the 11TH the Yanks got back-to-back singles from Wells and Francisco Cervelli and Ichiro bunted a ball right back to pitcher Arron Loup and it was awesome except that Brett had come into field the bunt and Maicer Izturis did not move over to third and the ball from Loup went past Lawrie who was not back at the bag and it went down the line for two unearned runs and the Yanks win 5-3. The only 42 left in Major league baseball came in and saved the game for the Yanks and the Jays still not right but soon Tom Mehegan

Jays D not Brandon Morrow friend

Brandon Morrow was sucking for the first three innings and it was 3-1 Yanks with one out in the third inning with Vernon "boo" Wells on third and Ichiro on second and Eduardo Nunez flied out to shallow center field and Rasmus catch it and throw it home to hold Vernon at third but there was only one problem J.P. went in front of the plate and missed the ball and went into the dugout for two unearned to make it 5-1 and it was over. Jays D also did not help Morrow also in the sixth inning as Rajai Davis was sleeping in right field and on a Cervelli fly ball to him and Rajai went over to the ball and slide about 6 or 7 steps away from the wall and the ball went off his glove and it turned into a double that Rajai should of been able to get under the ball and catch it and it turned out to be Morrow's last pitch of the night. The D also let down Brett Cecil as he came in and Brett Gardiner hit a ball to the wall and Rasmus was nowhere to be found as he had to simply run it to the wall and throw it to wide of third and if Lawrie does not stretch to get the ball Gardiner walked home and he still got home on a Robertson Cano ground ball. Brandon Morrow did go 5.1 innings pitched and did give up 7 runs (5 earned) and he did give up solo homers to Travis Hafner with one out in the third and with one out in the sixth inning former Jay Lyle Overbay slammed a solo homer. Brett Cecil gave up a solo homer to former Jay Vernon "boo" Wells slammed a solo shot to make it 9-1 Yanks. Andy Pettitte was his own best friend as with a run in and Jose Bautista who was DHing on first and Edwin scotched a ball right back to Petite who doubled up Bastista at first to end the inning in a 2-1 Yanks game. He also fielded his position starting the second inning as J.P. grounded back to Pettitte who throw him out and he ended up pitching 7.1 innings and gave up 3 runs on 6 hits. The Jays had bright spots starting with Brett Lawrie who ran out an infield hit and got two hits in the game and Jose Bautista slammed a two-run homer in the bottom of the sixth. J.P. Arencibia hit a solo shot in the bottom of the ninth with two outs and it made the final 9-4 Yanks and J.P. had two hits in the game. I'M going to see Buehrle live tomorrow Yeah Tom Mehegan

Jays run all over Chisoxs to slip series

The Jays in the bottom of the first got a ground ball single from Rajai Davis who stole both second and third before Edwin Encarnacion had a RBI single to left to put the Jays up 1-0 and Edwin had the third stolen base of the inning. This was enough for Jays R.A. Dickey who was baffling the White Soxs as he went through the order once with no base runners and 5 ks but in the fourth former Jay Alex Rios broke up Dickey's perfect game with two outs in the fourth and after a walk he finished off Adam Dunn with his sixth strikeout to end the inning. Dickey continued to baffle the Soxs hitters only given up one more hit over his last two innings and that was eliminated by a double play and the only thing that stopped him tonight was a stiff back as he got through 6 innings in only 64 pitches and could of stayed in and gone even deeper into the game but the Jays felt it was important that they be safer then sorry and took him out with 7 ks to a walk. The Jays got another couple of gift runs in the fifth as Emilio Bonifacio got hit by a pitch by Chris Sale who then tried to catch Bonifacio napping and instead it was Sale who was napping as he throw the ball down the first base line on a pick-off attempt and Bonifacio ended up on third missing up two bases on the throwing error. Munenori Kawasaki continued the inning by reaching safely on a throwing error by Adam Dunn and it scored Bonifacio and then came all the way around to score on a Rajai Davis double to the gap to make it 3-0. Chris Sale pitched very well for Chicago and went 8 innings and gave up 4 hits and pitched like an ace but his own pitching mistakes of a hit batter and a wild pick-off attempt along with three stolen bases hurt him badly leading to two of the three runs he gave up and 6 ks to 1 walk. Arron Loup gave up a run in the eighth inning as Tyler Flowers had a RBI double after having a three-run blast in last night's game but it took Casey Janssen 8 pitches to go 1-2-3 through the Soxs to collect his fifth save of the season. The back problems are an issue with Bautista Tom Mehegan

Bautista MIA as Jays shutdown

So Jose Bautista has played all 6 road games but he has missed 6 of the Jays first home games as he missed the Red Soxs series and the first three against the White Soxs with a bad back and the Jays bats have been silent at home as they got shutout 7-0 and fall to 3-6 at home this season. Brett Lawrie has been back for two games and still is unable to catch-up to the real major league stuff as he is 0 for 7 with a sac fly RBI but 4ks and he left 3 runners on base as had 3 ks in his 4 at bats tonight. It was Melky Cabrera with who fell on his face as Munenori Kawasaki and Rajai Davis both were on in the third and fifth inning and Melky struck out to end the third and grounded out in fifth to end the inning and left four runners on. Jose Quintana got into some trouble with a double and a walk in the fifth and two singles in the third but lasted 6.2 and gave up 5 hits and 2 walks and just was able to get out of two out jams as the Jays hitters were unable to get that big hit to open up the game. The Jays were unable to dent the Chisoxs bullpen as Jesse Crain only gave up a single in 1.1 inning pitched and it was to Edwin who was on base three times with two singles and a walk and the Donnie Veal came in and went 1-2-3 in the ninth to finish the game. J.A. Happ who was the best pitcher throw the rotation was the worst the third time around and it was another long inning that shortened his night and put a crooked number on the board and it was a two out and 2 on 2 and 1 fastball in the second inning which was the third straight fastball and catcher Tyler Flowers crushed it for a three-run homer to open the inning. He throw 30 pitches in the inning did not allow him to get through the 6 inning like the rest of the rotation as he throw 92 pitches as he went 5.2 innings and gave up 5 runs on 6 hits and a walk. Happ gave up s two out hit to Alexei Ramirez to drive in Paul Konerko who lead off the third inning with a double and after two ks Happ just was unable to close the deal and the other mistake was a lead-off homer to Alex Rios to lead off the sixth. Ramon Ortiz came across lake Ontario from buffalo to end up innings and he did that for the Jays as he went the last 3.1 innings and got hit extremely hard in the seventh as gave up three straight singles and gave up a RBI sac fly to Jeff Keppinger and after he walked Rios to load the bases and Paul Konerko had a RBI sac fly and he gave up no more runs but two hits the rest of the way. Jays need a healthy Bautista and Lawrie getting back in game shape Tom Mehegan

Mark Buehrle shows what he can do

Mark Buehrle started very slowly by given 2 runs on 4 hits in the first inning and the Jays were down 2 before even taken a swing at Gavin Floyd and then he settled down against the very familiar foe of the Chicago White Soxs and went another 5.1 and gave up only 5 more hits the rest of the way and did not give up another run. It was the first time that Buehrle has faced the team he pitched for the first 12 seasons of his outstanding career and he a pit bull after the first inning nerves and showed Jays faces what they should expect from Buehrle who has pitched over 200 innings the past 12 seasons and he is getting stronger and will be going deeper into games from here. So with Buehrle folding the Soxs the Jays bats went at Gavin Floyd as Emilio Bonifacio doubled to open to the game and moved to third on a pass ball and came home on a sac fly from Melky Cabrera. With Jose Bautista sitting tonight J.P. on the three spot rocked a solo homer to tie the game at 2 in the first and they kept on Floyd in the inning as Edwin Encarnacion and Adam Lind continued the hitting game with a single and double respectfully but then Floyd k'd DeRosa and Colby Rasmus to end the inning. The Jays continued to take Floyd deep in the second as Maicer Izturis lead off with a homer and then in the fourth Munenori Kawasaki continued to show why he wants to stay with the Jays as he tripled and continues to love playing and Emilio Bonifacio drove him home for the winning run with a sac fly making it 4-2. The Bullpen of Esmil Rogers, Arron Loup, and Casey Janssen who gave up only one hit in the last 2.2 inning with Esmil Rogers facing only two batters and getting them out and Arron Loup hit Adam Dunn and gave up a double to Dayan Viciedo with one out and battled back to only give up a sac fly RBI to Alexei Ramirez to make it 4-3 but Loup k'd Tyler Flowers to end the eighth inning. Casey Janssen came into shutdown the Soxs after falling behind Conor Gillaspie 3 and 0 and k'd him on the next three pitches and throw 5 strikes in a row and 6 of 7 to k Alejandro De Aza and with enemy # 1 Alex Rios on deck he got Jeff Keppinger to ground out to Munenori Kawasaki who throw him out to end the game. Edwin Encarnacion continues to heat up with three more hits and Adam Lind got a two hit game and a walk and they had half of the 10 Jays hits. Jays have won 3 of the last 4 games to stay close to the rest of the East Tom Mehegan

Edwin Encarnacion tries to power Royals sweep

Edwin Encarnacion tried to help the Jays to sweep away the Royals and came up just short after hitting a RBI ground out in the first and smoking a solo homer in the sixth he came up in a 2-2 ballgame in the eighth with Melky Cabrera on first he crushed a ball into the left field corner and it had the legs but it went foul. With two on for J.P. Arencia he struck out to end the inning and it went to the bottom of the ninth inning it was still 2-2 and with one out Chris Getz off Darren Oliver hit a laser to right field to Rajai Davis and the ball kicked off his glove on a bounce and went to the wall and Getz ended up with a double and on the next day Alex Gordon singled him home to win the game 3-2. Rajai Davis did had a great catch grabbing a ball just before it hit the ground to rob Billy Butler to lead off the eighth inning and had a hit and was apart of a great pitcher's duel between Brandon Morrow and Ervin Santana. Brandon Morrow went 6 innings and gave up two runs on 6 hits with 3 ks and a walk and throw 2 strikes to ever a ball he throw and he got into a little trouble in the third inning as Jarrod Dyson tripled to Rajai Davis and got almost out of it when he got Chris Getz foul out and Alex Gordon hit it back to the mound and he was able to keep the run from scoring but then Alcides Escobar hit a sac fly to tie up the game. In the sixth he gave an one out single to Salvador Perez and then two out singles to both Eric Hosmer and Lorenzo Cain who got the RBI to tie up the game at 2. Ervin Santana went 8 innings and gave up 7 hits and 3 walks and his problem was Edwin who was just at the plate to make things happen for the Jays and if he had not hit a ball to far left we most likely talking about a Jays sweep of the Royals. Melky Cabrera was the only Jays hitter that had 2 hits of the Jays 7 hits in the game while Alex Gordon and Lorenzo Cain both had two of the Royals 10 hits. So in the daily Jose Reyes story line it looks like Brett Lawrie will be trying to play second base and if it works Bautista will stay at third. Mark Buehrle will face his former team the White Soxs tomorrow night Tom Mehegan

R.A. Dickey produces a quality start for the Jays

R.A. Dickey went into the seventh inning and became the first Jays starter to get an out in the seventh inning this season and finished with a very quick 6.1 inning performance and just gave a run on 5 hits. Jays behind the performance of R.A. Dickey the Jays went onto win 3-2 and are now 5 and 6 and looking to come home with a sweep of the Royals and a .500 record. The Jays faced James Shield and just like he did as a Tampa Ray just baffled the Jays bats and the Jays only had 2 hits in the game as Shields went the whole game and his only problem was that he allowed 5 bases runners and three of them scored. Maicer Izturis got the first hit for the game in the third inning by doubling to open the inning and R.A.'s personal catcher Henry Blanco moved him to third with a sac fly to right field and then Jose Reyes replacement from Buffalo Munenori Kawasaki had a RBI sac fly to bring home Izturis to put the Jays up 1-0. In the sixth inning Munenori Kawasaki was at it again as he walked to lead off the inning and moved to second on an one out ground ball by Melky Cabrera and took third on a wild pitch but then it did not matter as he walked home as Jose Bautista crushed his third homer of the season to left field to give the Jays a 3-0 lead that they would not give up. R.A. Dickey had problems in the first inning as he gave up a double to Salvador Perez after walking Billy Butler but got a line out by Lorenzo Cain to end the inning but in the seventh inning on his 100Th pitch of the game gave up a double to Jarrod Dyson and it sent Dickey to the showers. Darren Oliver came in and on his first pitch Jarrod Dyson stole third on him and on the next pitch Chris Getz bunted him home and made it safely to fiirst as Isturis could not cover first quick enough. If R.A. pitched quick than Sergio Santos was the opposite as he was pitching in quick sand in the eighth inning even though he did not give up a run but did walk the first batter before getting the next two before Brett Cecil came in and baffled Mike Moustakas as he k'd him looking as the crowd told the ump what they thought of every pitch Cecil as they booed every strike call. Casey Janssen came in for the save in the ninth and it looked like his only problem he was going to have was not wearing the right jersey as he was wearing the gray one and had to change to the blue one before finishing his warm-up in the bullpen. He got two quick outs before given up back-to-back singles to Chris Getz and Alex Gordon the Royals got their second run of the game as Getz went to second on indifference and scored on Gorden's single but Alcides Escoba flied out to give Janssen his third save of the season. Jose Reyes will not be ready at least until after the all-star break so the Jays have a big hole to fill Tom Mehegan

Jose Reyes stretchered off in Jays big win

The Jays took advantage of three Royals errors in a 8-4 victory and the story should be something like Arron Loup picking the final three innings and going through the Royals lineup 9 up and 9 down for his first save of his career or that J.A. Happ after throwing 41 pitches and given up 3 runs on 3 hits with two walks throw only 45 pitches over the next three innings and battled through the fifth to pick up the win. But instead it is all about Jose Reyes after collecting a two-run single to put the Jays 8-4 up in sixth inning and he then got a great jump on stealing second base and everything would been fine except that he was watching the throw from the plate and when realized that he had to slide he was too close to the base and slide feet first and his left leg ended up awkwardly under him and he was safe at second but in extreme pain. To say this not go that Reyes was in a tone of pain and covering up his face as the trainer worked on him for a guy who has been an injury free player since coming into the league in '03 with the Mets is not a good thing. Reyes has been the Jays only reliable bat this season as he is the only Jays player to reach base in all of the Jays 10 games when nobody else has been basically hitting their weight and having a 9 game hit streak with 15 hits is impressive especially when u see of his 15 hits this season which dwarfs everybody else. The mos impressive thing about Reyes numbers for a team that has a number of players that if they do not hit it out of the ballpark it is an out Reyes has not gotten a homer this season. All this put together with the news that the Jays are saying that it is an ankle sprain and that he is going for x-rays is bad because right now for some reason they have decided to go with the Leafs cover-up idea and it maybe just like Brett Lawrie and they may not give the paying fans the straight truth and sugar coat it. At least Lawrie is batting and hopefully be back sometime soon but it is likely a long time before seeing Jose Reyes in a Jays uniform Tom Mehegan

Jays use small ball to battle to beat Tigers

Jays behind some bad defense and some bad relief pitching from Brad Lincoln fell behind the Detroit Tigers 6-1 after 5 innings and Mark Buehrle was on the receiving end of this bad luck as he gave up 6 runs (5 earned) on 9 hits with two walks (one intentional) in only 4.2 inning pitched and throw 94 pitches. After given up a RBI on a Prince Fielder ground out in the first inning to give the Tigers a 1-0 lead but in the second inning he suffered an unearned run when outfielder Emilio Bonifacio who is playing second base for the Jays had his fourth error of the season on a ground ball off the bat of Matt Tuiasosopo and it would been a quick 1-2-3 inning and instead he throw an extra five pitches including a RBI single from Omar Infante to give the Tigers a 2-0 lead. After a clean third and fourth inning Buehrle had only had given up a walk but Omar Infante shot a ball on a ground ball that got past Second baseman Maicer Izturis who is playing third for the Jays and then after a ground out by Austin Jackson he gave up a RBI single to Torii Hunter and then a double to Miguel Cabrera and loaded the bases with the intentional walk to Fielder and Brad Lincoln came in and walked the first two batters he faced and then had Jhonny Peralta nub a ball into nowhere land for a RBI single and then got two quick outs to not allow a run of his own. The Jays finally started their climb up the Tiger mountain by putting together sour straight hits without a homer to open the Sixth inning and it was finished off by Edwin Encarnacion who had broken a 0 for 19 spell in the fourth inning with a double had a two-run double to cut the lead to 6-3 and then Mark DeRosa came off the bench with a RBI double on the first pitch he saw from Darin Downs who had just come in for Starter Rick Porcello and it was 6-4 going to the Seventh inning. In the seventh with one on and one out Brayan Villarreal came into the game and like Lincoln he could not throw a strike to save his life and did not one or two batters to start but instead he walked three in a row to score Melky Cabrera to make it 6-5 and J.P. put the finishing touch on the comeback with a three-run double that bounced off the top of the fence instead of bouncing over and it put an extra run onto the Jays lead as they took a 8-6 lead. Jays finally got great pitching from their bullpen as Aaron Loup came and gave up two single but no runs in the sixth and pitched the sixth and picked up the win as Cecil came in for the Seventh and only gave up an one out single to Jhonny Peralta. Then Darren Oliver came in and took care of the Tigers 1-2-3 but did have a scary moment as Austin Jackson on his second pitch of the inning hit the ball off Oliver and it went straight for first base but Oliver took a few warm-up pitches and stayed in and Casey Janssen came in for the ninth and got Prince Fielder and Victor Martinez looking before Andy Dirks lined out to Maicer Izturis to end the game and picked up his second save of the season. Adam Lind was the only starter to not get a hit and Edwin Encarnacion had two hits along with Melky and J.P. Tom Mehegan

Brandon Morrow has two out problems while the bats are dead

Brandon Morrow pitched only 3.2 innings as he gave up 5 runs on 9 hits and the Jays were trailing 5-1 when he left the game and the Jays fell hard falling to the Tigers 7-3 with Miguel Cabrera went 4 for 5 with a dagger of a three-run homer while Torii Hunter went 3 for 5 and hit his 2,000Th in the sixth inning with a single. Morrow was hurt by trying to get that ultimate third out of an inning where the Tigers went 6 of 8 with two walks and four RBIs after getting two quick outs. In the first he gave up a two out single to Miguel Cabrera and a Prince Fielder RBI double and in the fourth inning with two quick outs he gave up back-to-back two out singles to Austin Jackson and Torii Hunter and then Miguel Cabrera on Morrow's last pitch got smashed for a three-run homer. J.P. Arencibia smoked a ball over the left field fence but Don Kelly brought it back into the ballpark and it would of tied the game 1-1 to open the second inning and instead it was an extremely long and loud first out of the second inning. Jose Reyes went 2 for 4 and is hitting .444 on the season and J.P. is the next highest batting average @ .296 with no other everyday player is over Meiky Cabrera's .250 batting average after his 3 for 4 day and both Reyes and Cabrera had a RBI in the game. On the bad side of the Jays batting right now is Colby Rasmus has only 4 hits on the season and in the ninth inning his fourth hit of the season was a solo homer and now he has three homers and a double on the season while Adam Lind has only a single hit in 16 at bats coming into his pinch hit double and now is hitting a lofty .118 in 17 at-bats this season. So the Jays are having trouble if your name is not Jose Reyes getting anything more than a homer as J.P. has 3 homers and almost 4 in his 8 almost 9 hits on the season but I guess there is good news with Jose Bautista back in the lineup after missing the Boston series even though he has 2 homers in his 3 hits on the season as he is hitting .188. Jays need to find away to get runners on base and play a little bit of small ball as homers are exciting to watch but it is not the way u want to score all your runs Tom Mehegan

John Farrell gets what he deserves as he returns to T.O.

John Farrell returned to Toronto and he left as a complete ass as he said that he was "traded" when everyone knew he wanted to go to his "dream job" i.e. the Boston Red Soxs and then when he came back to the city today he got into Mike Wilner's face who is the third man in the radio booth for the Blue Jays and said that Wilner has asked for him to be booed and that is outrageous. The fans themselves were respectful to Farrell until the ninth inning when Jeremy Jefferies came in out of the bullpen and served up a juicy fastball to Will Middlebrooks who lead-off the ninth inning was a solo jack to give the Red Soxs a 6-4 lead that they went onto win the game by. In the ninth inning a small group of fans in the left field corner started a "beep u Farrell chant" chant that was only time that things got non-pg which is an extremely good change as things like this just run games like this. So when they said the magical words of "Here is the Boston Red Soxs starting lineup managed by" and the boos rained down very hard and then during the exchange of the lineup cards he came out got booed a couple of times. As the game started the crowd was not n'sync as part of the crowd did a "Farr-ell" chant while another part went with a "Ellsbury" chant while another part of the crowd went with a "let's go Blue Jays" chant. It was a vocal crowd but in the fourth when with one out Emilio Bonifacio on back to back ground balls by Shane Victorino and Jackie Bradley had throwing errors and it cost the Jays a run and in the fifth Mike Napoli with a Dustin Pedroia single on slammed a two-run homer to put the Soxs up 4-1 and the crowd was completely dead. In the bottom the fifth Mark DeRosa lead-off the inning was a long drive that bounced off the top of the wall and went over and the crowd was jacked again with the "Farr-ell" chant and they finally got the waive going and it was a long time coming as fans were trying it early and often. The Jays put up another run in the inning as Jose Reyes went 4 of 5 and in the inning had a RBI triple and was stranded there as the tying run and the Red Soxs trailed 4-3 and then he tied the game with a solo jack in the 7TH inning to tie it at 4. When Adam Lind was still looking for his firsat hit with runners on first and second it was at a fear pitch and he flied out to Ellsbury and with people on their feet Maicer Izturis flied to him to end the eighth and things went down the drain and it sad to let Farrell get the leg up on the Jays. 45 thousand in the stands were awesome but the handful over that was the sick ones Tom Mehegan

J.P. Arencibia powers Jays to win first game of season

J.P. Arencibia hit two homers in a 10-8 slug feast against the pesty Indians who thankfully are finally leaving the city as the Jays gave up the first run of the game in the top of the first as Jays starter Mark Buehrle gave up back-to-back doubles with Nick Swisher getting a RBI double with two outs as he started the inning with two straight ks to open the game. Jose Bautista hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the inning to get ahead 2-1 and then in the third J.P. Arencibia's first solo shot of the game put up the Jays 3-1. After 12-pitch and 6-pitch second and third respectively Mark Buehrle gave up back-to-back homers to Carlos Santana and Mark Reynolds in the fourth to tie the game at 3 and after Edwin Encarnacion hit his first homer of the season which was a three-run homer in the fifth inning Buehrle unraveled with a walk to Nick Swisher and Michael Brantley got hit by a pitch to open the inning and Carlos Santana cashed in a run and with one out and his last pitch was to Lonnie Chisenhall which was a two-run double to tie up the game. Mark Buehrle pitched 5.1 innings and he gave up 6 runs on 7 hits and k'd 4 but in his first start of the season was not the real Buehrle and he will get stronger as the season goes along. In the bottom of the sixth the Jays put up a three spot that put the Jays up 9-6 and it was there to stay as J.P. hit his second lead-off homer of the game and then Colby Rasmus got his first hit of the season as he hit a solo homer after the pitch before hitting it long but foul. Then finally the Jays scored a run not on the home-run ball for the first time all season as the Jays when Emilio Bonifacio doubled and scored on a throwing error by Mark Raynolds on a ground ball by Melkey Cabrera as the first 11 runs over the first 25.2 innings were all on homers. The Indians got a run on a Mark Reynolds on a RBI single off of Esmil Rogers in the seventh and Jason Kipnis got a RBI double in the eighth against Darren Oliver but Casey Janssen came in in the ninth and shutdown the Indians for the second inning of the game that an Indian did not reach base as the second inning way the only other inning they went down one-two-three and it only took him 11 pitches and he k'd two batters as he collected his first save of the season. The Jays collected 9 hits in the game which was the amount of hits they collected in total during the first two games of the series while those pesty Indians collected 14 hits in the game and remember Tito (terry Franconia) is the guy that broke the Babe Ruth curse for the Red Soxs. Enemy no. 1 John Farrell is back tomorrow and will be welcomed with a circus environment Tom Mehegan

Sergio Santos unable to help Jays get first win

Sergio Santos came in for the 11Th inning after pitching in the opener so he was pitching on back-to-back games and he got ahead Mark Reynolds with two strikes but he left a pitch up high over the plate and he crushed it to give the Indians a 3-2 victory. The Indians was knocking on the door all night but Jays starter Brandon Morrow was able to use his ability to strike out batters to help get out of problems and he used three of his 8 ks in the second inning as he gave up back-to-back singles to open the inning and then struck out three straight indians to get out of the Indians. In the third he gave up a lead off double to Michael Bourn and then got two outs but he then walked Nick Swisher and Michael Brantley singled in the first run of the game and then struck out Carlos Santana to end the inning. The Jays got even with a Maicer Izturis with a lead off homer in the bottom of the inning but in the eighth inning he gave the run back to the Indians as he kept a ball in the infield off the bat of Carlos Santana with runners on first and second with one out and stepped on third for a force play and then throw in a hurry to first for an inning ending double play but throw it over Edwin Encarnacion's head and Michael Brantley scored to go up 2-1. Jose Bautista hit a two-out solo homer in the bottom of the ninth to send the game into extra innings and hitting into double plays in his first two at-bats. Brandon Morrow pitched 6 innings and gave up a run on 6 hits and two walks to go with eight ks and he helped the Jays pitching keep the Indians off the board with runners in scoring position as they went 1 for 13 in the RISP situation. The bullpen brought the heat as Delabar, Rogers, Oliver, Janssen, and Santos k'd 3 more Indians and gave four hits and two walks but the hits just were the wrong ones. The Jays hitters tied a franchise low of 9 total hits in the first two games and struggled to get a runner in scoring position as a Jay never got to second base except for the two solo homers. Jays got almost 25 thousand but are still look for win # 1 Tom Mehegan

Jays get a wake-up to open the season

The Jays did not expect to go 162-0 and realized that losing open day was a possibility but it still a not so nice wake-up call to the Jays 25 man roster and so players did not expect what they got: Like R.A. Dickey who in s game where he is down 2-1 in the fifth inning gives up a long fly ball to Asdrubal Cabrera and it carried and it carried and it carried into the Indians bullpen as Dickey throws up his hands like that real happened. Cabrera himself as he hits tthe ball felt like he got under it and was talking to himself as he was leaving the batter's box so nether that it was gone but the two-run homer put the Indians up 4-1 and that would be how it would stay. Adam Lind in the third inning of a 2-0 game and the bases juiced and no outs hits the ball on the screws but Asdrubal Cabrera dived and started a double play that scored the Jays run of the game. It also started 20 straight Jays being retired in order as Justin Masterson struggled to get his first 8 outs of the game as he gave up 3 hits and 4 walks over the first 3 plus innings and throw 64 pitches before getting the double play and after throw 39 pitches to pitch another 3.1 innings of no-hit ball for the Indians. J.P. Arencibia got a rude awakening as he allowed thee pass balls all with a runner on first setting up a double play and Dickey would get that ground ball and one of Dickey's two runs in the second inning was unearned and he gave up 4 runs (3 earned) on 5 hits and four walks and a wild pitch over 6 innings with 4ks. Jose Reyes got a rude awakening in the bottom of the first as he was standing on first base with a walk on four pitches and Melky Cabrera lined out to Asdrubal Cabrera who doubled up Reyes at first as he was on his way to second on contact and Bautista followed with a single and Edwin got hit by the next pitch and the bases would of been juiced for Lind again but with 2 outs he got k'd to end the inning. So lets hope that Brandon Morrow's fast ball is a wake-up call to the Indians Tom Mehegan

J.A. Happ named Jays five starter

With a week left until the Jays watch the live bullets start flying next Tuesday they have finally ended the controversy by announcing their five starter to open the season and his name is J.A. Happ who out performed Ricky Romero for the position. This move is probably for the best for the Jays as Happ has more to prove than Romero as he is fighting for his big deal as an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season and just like Josh Johnson he will be very focused and trying to do as well as possible to get the most money possible. Soon to be free agents have some of their best career seasons and it is likely that at the bottom of the order stuck between Johnson in the four slot and R.A. Dickey and his knuckles at the top of the order it is the perfect spot to put Happ. Another thing about J.A. Happ is that when he pitched with the Phillies and had 14-5 record over parts of four seasons and was 12-4 in his only full season with the Phillies and then went to Houston and went 28-39 over 2 and a half seasons and had his ERA jump quickly from mid 3's to 4's and 5's. The thing with this is very simple as Phillies pitching staff is professional men and Houston was not so professional kids and he fell into the black hole that has been the Houston Astros and the Jays pitching staff are men instead of kids especially Mark Buehrle who will set the tone for the Jays this season. On the other hand the open day starter for the Jays last season Ricky Romero has been sent down to single A just like Roy Halliday did just before he won his first Cy Young award in 2003. So it will hopefully be a positive experience for Ricky so he can get his confidence and get back to the kind of pitcher he was in 2010 when he was 15 and 11 with a 2.92 ERA and ended up with a couple of CY Young award votes. Finally this is the best decision for the Jays to make as Toronto Fans for whatever reason love to have escape goats and if Ricky was up with the team even if the Jays were rolling but Romero was not than the fans would boo him off the field and boo him when he throws a ball or serves up a juicy one. so hopefully Ricky goes down to single A ball and put up solid numbers and have a positive vibe when he returns to the Jays rotation and just goes out and performs well for the Jays so he can rebuild his career and hopefully becomes a strong starter for the Jays for seasons to come. I hope Lawrie does not become a escape goat in T.O. Tom Mehegan