Blue Birds (45-40) @ Bleached Socks (37-49) July 4, 5, & 6

Parataxis · Post #1 » by **Parataxis** » Mon Jul 3, 2023 3:44 pm

The Blue Jays are two sweeps away from finishing their final fifteen at 10-5, which would send them into the All-Star break at 11 games over 500.

The Blue Jays are two sweeps away from finishing their final fifteen at 4-11, which would send them into the All-Star break at 1 game under 500.

Which will it be?

Probable Pitchers

July 4th (America Day game) 8:10 ET

Bassitt 8-5, 4.06 ERA, 93 SO

vs

Giolito 6-5, 3.53 ERA, 108 SO

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July 5th 8:10 ET

Berrios 8-6, 3.74 ERA, 95 SO

vs

Lynn 5-8, 6.47 ERA, 116 SO

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July 6th 8:10 ET

Kikuchi 7-3, 4.08 ERA, 92 SO

vs

Jesse Scholtens 1-2, 2.96 ERA, 16 SO

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Let the penultimate series of the first half... BEGIN!

Lateral Quicks · Post #2 » by **Lateral Quicks** » Mon Jul 3, 2023 7:55 pm

Four Blue Jays named to the All-Star team - Gausman, Whit, Bo and Vladdy. Odd to see such a medicore team record-wise with that many all-stars.

Randle McMurphy · Post #3 » by **Randle McMurphy** » Mon Jul 3, 2023 11:17 pm

Lateral Quicks wrote:Four Blue Jays named to the All-Star team - Gausman, Whit, Bo and Vladdy. Odd to see such a medicore team record-wise with that many all-stars.

Well two of them don't deserve it.

LBJKB24MJ23 · Post #4 » by **LBJKB24MJ23** » Tue Jul 4, 2023 2:40 am

Lateral Quicks wrote:Four Blue Jays named to the All-Star team - Gausman, Whit, Bo and Vladdy. Odd to see such a medicore team record-wise with that many all-stars.

i mean have you seen the rest of the AL teams lol? what a laughing stock.

Ranger One · Post #5 » by **Ranger One** » Wed Jul 5, 2023 1:10 am

Varsho is trash man. Smh.

TOStateofMind · Post #6 » by **TOStateofMind** » Wed Jul 5, 2023 1:10 am

There's our all star

Parataxis · Post #7 » by **Parataxis** » Wed Jul 5, 2023 1:13 am

Love to see it, Whit. Great situational hitting.

Parataxis · Post #8 » by **Parataxis** » Wed Jul 5, 2023 1:15 am

What defensive expert do we have at Short, and where is he hiding Bo's body?

Fairview4Life · Post #9 » by **Fairview4Life** » Wed Jul 5, 2023 1:28 am

With Springers luck that broke his jaw.

Randle McMurphy · Post #10 » by **Randle McMurphy** » Wed Jul 5, 2023 1:42 am

Have we figured out why our all-star didn't pinch hit for Biggio with the game on the line on Saturday?

Randle McMurphy · Post #11 » by **Randle McMurphy** » Wed Jul 5, 2023 1:48 am

Bo can't turn a DP on a hard hit ball and it turns into 3 immediately. What a horrific pitch from Bassitt.

Mehar · Post #12 » by **Mehar** » Wed Jul 5, 2023 1:54 am

I guess it might be too much too ask for this offensively challenged team to score at least 4 runs tonight? Hoping that it not too much to ask.

Mehar · Post #13 » by **Mehar** » Wed Jul 5, 2023 1:56 am

Ranger One wrote:Varsho is trash man. Smh.

He has been trash offensively all year, except for a few good games offensively once a while. One of the factors why this team is life and death to score more than 4 runs a game more often than not.

TOStateofMind · Post #14 » by **TOStateofMind** » Wed Jul 5, 2023 2:11 am

Turns out you actually need to score runs to win. Which this team is incapable of doing.

edit: Vladdy. Needed it.

Parataxis · Post #15 » by **Parataxis** » Wed Jul 5, 2023 2:23 am

Biggio running those bases like an expert.

JN · Post #16 » by JN » Wed Jul 5, 2023 2:24 am

I know its a fairly standard move to bring in Biggio to pinch run for Belt, but not sure if I would do that with 0 outs (not 2 outs) in the eighth, where there is a decent probability Belt would have been coming back to bat in the 9th with the Jays down (since the Sox still had to get 6 more outs),

As I type this, the above becomes largely irrelevant - way to go Vlad!

tripa · Post #17 » by **tripa** » Wed Jul 5, 2023 2:25 am

Plakata

Randle McMurphy · Post #18 » by **Randle McMurphy** » Wed Jul 5, 2023 2:25 am

JN wrote:I know its a fairly standard move to bring in Biggio to pinch run for Belt, but not sure if I would do that with 0 outs (not 2 outs) in the eighth, where there is a decent probability Belt would have been coming back to bat in the 9th with the Jays down (since the Sox still had to get 6 more outs),

As I type this, the above becomes largely irrelevant - way to go Vlad!

It was right on the edge of when you could take Belt out, but I wasn't opposed.

JN · Post #19 » by JN » Wed Jul 5, 2023 2:27 am

Randle McMurphy wrote:
Lateral Quicks wrote:Four Blue Jays named to the All-Star team - Gausman, Whit, Bo and Vladdy. Odd to see such a medicore team record-wise with that many all-stars.

Well two of them don't deserve it.

Who would that be - I assume Vlad and Whit?

Heard the other day Jays got 4, but would have never guessed it was Whit. The second base position must be really weak in the AL - last year we got Espinal.. this year Whit.

Is there somebody that earned it more than Whit, or just a ****** crop of AL second baseman,

JN · Post #20 » by JN » Wed Jul 5, 2023 2:33 am

Randle McMurphy wrote:
JN wrote:I know its a fairly standard move to bring in Biggio to pinch run for Belt, but not sure if I would do that with 0 outs (not 2 outs) in the eighth, where there is a decent probability Belt would have been coming back to bat in the 9th with the Jays down (since the Sox still had to get 6 more outs),

As I type this, the above becomes largely irrelevant - way to go Vlad!

It was right on the edge of when you could take Belt out, but I wasn't opposed.

It was. I could have lived with either.

I guess the bigger concern is that your #3 hitter (Belt) is so meh, that the calculus to take him out with a likely AB remaining is supportable.