Series Thread: Jays vs. Indians, May 4-5

[s e n s i]

I also missed the game. Which absolutely sucks cause it looks like the 7th inning was nuts. This win was essential right before our west coast swing.

19-10. Wooooooo.

A Cecil recap would be nice. Anyone?

[Schad]

How did Cecil look, can someone give me an analysis of his performance? (I was at work, damn it)

I was really impressed with him (only saw his final three innings on the mound), especially his ability to throw inside to right-handed hitting...he made a couple of hitters look silly with off-speed stuff in on their hands (which appeared to be by design, judging by where Chavez set up).

He looked to be setting up quite far to the left of the rubber, which gives him a decent amount of cross-body action, and he was throwing his off-speed stuff in every imaginable count. He plunked three hitters but carried a pretty healthy 2:1 strike/ball ratio through 96 pitches, which was probably an inning more than I'd have liked him to throw, but with the 'pen exhausted I can understand the long leash.

Probably better than could realistically be expected, and I look forward to seeing him against Oakland, as the A's are pretty awful against left-handed pitching.

[Mustard_Tiger]

His slider is a key pitch for him. It gets a lot of outs (mostly of the ground ball and K variety).

[Kosta]

This was a big comeback win, the offense picked up the slumping pen, 2 blown games by the pen would have been really tough. Now take this momentum with Halladay on the mound and take the 1st of 2 vs the Angels.

Adam Lind is just a heck of a hitter, just looks like he knows exactly what he's doing every time up, you barely see a poor at bat from him.

[chargerxthirty]

I'm starting to worry about the bullpen.

We're already using a rag-tag bandaid starting staff. With half the guys we're throwing, we have to hang on for dear life just to get it to the bullpen with the lead.

The Problem: every one of our relievers is capable of absolutely imploding

Camp is terrible.
League Chokes
Wolfe is a Quadrouple A pitcher
BJ can't close the door anymore
Carlson was good until today... but ugh
etc etc

Frasor has been good so far and Downs is really our most reliable arm. The problem is that we're scraping out every win using our offense, so we have to use these guys every day.

It's like... every 4 or 5 games we have to throw out a pitcher who's probably going to blow it.

[Mustard_Tiger]

The Problem: every one of our relievers is capable of absolutely imploding

That sounds like the description of most of the bullpens in the major leagues. The pen is decent enough, and it will even better once Tallet and Accardo return to it.