Scott Kazmir vs Toronto

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It's a 1-1 game, middle of the third. Kazmir's first 8 retired have been strikeouts. If it wasn't for one bad pitch that led to a solo home run fo rVernon Wells, it'd be 8 up 8 down all K.d

John McDonald just popped out to end the third, so it's only 8 of 9, but still very much in record territory.

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Kazmir's got 9 through 4. Baldelli has two hits, including his first homer of the year. Young takes his first walk of the season, from Halladay of all people. Rays up 2-1.

Navarro still sucks.

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Akinori Iwamura sends Young to third on a hit and run single, with 1 out. If I had a daughter of legal consenting age, I'd let Akinori Iwamura impregnate her.

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MLB TV keeps cutting off my feed, which is annoying.

4-3 Jays after Reed Johnson hit a three run home run. Kazmir has 10 K's.

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Navarro and Zobrist are a combined 2-30 this year. So that's also annoying.

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Stokes just struck out Frank Thomas. That's a shame. I wanted to see if he could go the whole year without a strikeout.

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I'm not that really high on Zobrist or Navarro for that matter. Obviously I would like to see both be successful, but I don't believe either of them to be the ultimate answer at their respective positions.

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Hooray!!! Bullpen meltdown!

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NINTH INNING PREDICTION:

Ryu throws a scoreless inning but give sup a walk and a single in doing so.

Iwamura walks to lead off the ninth, Dukes hits a single to right, and Navarro grounds into a double play. Pena taps out meekly to second to end it.

If that's right, I'll give you the money myself.

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Well, vaguely right so far. Ryu got through the Jay sbloody quickly in the top of the 9th.

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Well that petered out tamely in no way like I said it would. Hmph.

2-3 now and still with some major pitching issues. Kazmir will come around, that we know. But the bullpen hardly instills confidence - 2 more runs in 2 innings tonight. And the lineup is still only 7 strong.