July 27-29: Flightless birds against holey sox

[BigLeagueChew]

Gurriel!

[vaff87]

Gurriel!

Who and when was the last time someone had 11 straight multi-hit games?

[BigLeagueChew]

Gurriel!

Who and when was the last time someone had 11 straight multi-hit games?

@MLBStatoftheDay
.@yunitogurriel’s multi-hit game streak has reached 11 straight games!

That’s the 3rd longest streak in @MLB history and longest since Tony Perez in 1973.

Tied AL record?

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#BlueJays Lourdes Gurriel Jr. becomes the first rookie since 1876 with 11 straight multi-hit games

[SharoneWright]

These SOX jerseys are beauty.

[vaff87]

Gurriel!

Who and when was the last time someone had 11 straight multi-hit games?

@MLBStatoftheDay
.@yunitogurriel’s multi-hit game streak has reached 11 straight games!

That’s the 3rd longest streak in @MLB history and longest since Tony Perez in 1973.

Tied AL record?

@SNstats
15m15 minutes ago
More
#BlueJays Lourdes Gurriel Jr. becomes the first rookie since 1876 with 11 straight multi-hit games

The last guy to do it before Perez was Billy Herman in 1935-36. Crazy.

[BigLeagueChew]

Really? Injury.

[SharoneWright]

you've got to be kidding me

[torontoaces04]

Just when you think this nightmare of a season can't get any worse... there goes the only good news story we had going.

[SharoneWright]

Kawhi talked to Nurse, and Gurriel walked off on his own steam;;;; equal levels of relief over here.

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Gurriel getting his knee and ankle x-rayed right now. I'm thinking hyper-extension. his knee folded in a way that it could sustain that pressure without tearing something (think squatting with weights). I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

[So_Fresh]

Gurriel with another injury... kid needs to slow down and be less aggressive. we could be looking at Travis 2.0

that multi hit record is pretty impressive..

R. Borucki with a solid outing today.

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Drury hit exceptionally well, batting .306/.413/.477 over 55 games between double- and triple-A following his demotion. He drew a walk in 14.3 per cent of his plate appearances, a remarkable number considering his career-high walk rate in the majors was 6.2 per cent. But the Yankees were going with other options at the big-league level. So, Drury toiled until the end of June, when he was finally called back up to the level he felt he deserved to be at.

But that lasted only seven games before Drury was sent back to triple-A. Only two weeks after that, he was a Blue Jay. It’s been a lot to process.

“You know, I think overall it’s going to make me a better player,” he says. “Just going through that, being a guy that was in the big leagues, that was a decent player for a few years, and then to go through all that and get sent down twice after having a little bit of success in the big leagues previously — it wasn’t easy on me. Going through that for this year has been tough on me. But I feel like it’s made me even hungrier and even more ready to go out and do what I know I can do.”

The bet the Blue Jays are making on Drury is that he’s right about his major-league career thus far — that his results haven’t shown anywhere near his true talent level. The Blue Jays are also wagering they can help Drury get past his headache and vision problems once and for all.

When Drury was hiding his issues — as stubborn, ultra-competitive ballplayers sometimes do — he managed their limitations by frequently changing his stance at the plate. He says he doesn’t believe it affected his swing. But it doesn’t take much to get a hitter out of rhythm when he isn’t feeling his best in the batter’s box.

“I’ve dealt with it for a long time,” he says. “I’ve definitely had to try to find different ways to stand at the plate and different ways to see the ball better.”