Jays early season looks very bright

The Jays went into St. Petes and split a four game series with the Tampa Bay Rays to open the season and are now 0-19-2 in the last 21 series in St. Petes since 2007. The Jays had extremely good D which is opposite from what it looked like last season especially Adam Lind who swallowed up throws on the fly and on the bounce in his first baseman's glove and won a game with his bat to help Drew Hutchison won his first start in 21 and a half month. Then Mark Buehrle throw a 8 and two thirds innings gem and stuck out 11 and only gave up 4 hits and is a great leader on the field. Then they came home and battled the New York Yankees and even through it was a series loss (2-1) they had a lot more fight than last season when the Yankees steam rolled the Jays all season long. The home opener with Dustin McGowan held strong and had a lead 3-2 when Mark Teixeira pulled himself out of the game in the second inning and it helped Masahiro Tanaka to settled down and found his stuff and McGowan was eaten up by the ball eaten Yankees and last 2 and two-third and it ended with a 9-2 loss. Then R.A. Dickey shutout the Yankees 4-0 with help from homers from Melky Cabrera and Jose Bautista and Drew Hutchison in his second start got beaten up by the Yankees and gave up 6 runs over 5 and a third but battled back to have Melky Cabrera at the plate as the winning run in the bottom of the ninth. So the Jays have a good defense and has had timely hitting to keep the game close and got three solid starts from their starters and finish a week with the Rays and Yankees and were 3-4 which is a strong start in an extremely tough division. Melky Cabrera started the season with a .323 batting average and three homers and Batista also had 3 homers and both look like they could have bounce back seasons. I hope Colby Rasmus and Adam Lind are in the lineup more Tom Mehegan