The 2013 do-over Toronto Blue Jays (AKA the 2014 Blue Jays Thread)

Jays are looking like amateurs today hacking away against Shelby Miller. Gibbons looking dumb by issuing a completely unnecessary IBB in the 8th and setting up a big inning.

i don't know why he brought Delbar in there, when he'd been struggling so bad lately.

No ground lost--hope the Yankees and Orioles keep treading water. At almost any time the past 20 years, I would have been rooting for Miller to get his no-hitter. Instead, I'm sitting there saying "no-hitter, no-hitter, no-hitter--he's got a hitter."

ha! i sat him on my fantasy team ysterday, so his performance is entirely my fault!

i'm also starting Hutch today – so apologies if it goes sideways.

Special award to anyone who can decipher my jokes these days through the fog of typos and omitted words.

Poetic justice--walk-off bloop after throwing away the lead on two bloops in the top of the inning.

this reminds me of '93 when they were constantly pulling off the 9th inning heroics

Shelby Miller, sure. Jaime Garcia, maybe. Kevin Correia, unsettling.

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I don't think I'm up to the peaks and valleys of a playoff chase any more.

aaron sanchez promoted to buffalo

Nolan is killing AAA right now too.

So we've stopped scoring runs now? I'm worried about this Baltimore series.

three series this month against the O's and Yankees. not off to a good start.

Fifteen runs in their past eight games (2-6); pitching's only been so-so, but probably good enough to have won four or five of them. Win today, no big deal.

back to 4.5 up. this little skid hasn't really caused much damage thanks the gods.

What's happening?

I don't get the Yankee Stadium streak at all. It's not like these have been the Yankee teams of 10-15 years ago.

i blame Morbs for saying toronto was a lock for the playoffs a few weeks ago!

"lock" my eye! they're still at 59%, down 9.5% in the last week.

so where were these bats against the yankees?!

There were loads of Jays fans in Cinci for the game!

Edwin had to love hitting that big HR in the ninth. I'm sure for total WAR that trade is looking pretty bad at this point (unless you count moxie), of course even the Jays almost gave up on Eddie before he finally figured it out at the plate. That said, Encarnacion was never going to make it in Cincy playing third base, as it was always sheer terror when he had to make a throw from over there.

going for the revenge sweep tomorrow!

Officially mediocre now after dropping three of four to the White Sox at home. The "Jays haven't been in first this late in the season since July 6th 2003" (or whenever it was) meme might still carry forward to next year!

Since June 6, when the Jays beat the Cardinals 3-1 and pushed their lead to six over the Yankees:

Toronto: 7-15
New York: 10-9
Baltimore: 12-10
Boston: 10-11

They could easily be up by seven or eight by now--more if they'd somehow stayed hot. But I guess they're lucky no one's shot past them...yet.

Francisco homers, Batista homers, Encarnacion hits a walk off homer to win it against a division leading team, this is more like it.

it's weird - they sweep one division leader after another but collapse against the mediocre teams in our own division.

Anyone else think it'll be a miracle if they're still in first after this nine-game road trip (beginning in Oakland)? I am feeling more confident, though, that they'll at least be contending for a wild-card come September.

Very unusual appeal by the Jays in the first inning: a runner of theirs was called safe, and they appealed (and won) to have him called out. In context, it of course made sense--allowed a run to score. The whole episode took about 15-20 minutes, ending with Melvin playing the game under protest.

Not sure why Melvin was upset about the appeal -- he obviously tagged the runner at first and removed the force, the rules couldn't be any clearer.

Not sure what he was arguing either. Hopefully he'll win the protest and the game will be replayed.

590 had an umpire on this morning, and he thought Melvin's protest was valid. The way he explained it, Melvin was arguing that as soon as the umpire missed the call at first by not calling Kawasaki out, the catcher then has no reason to make the tag at the other end; he's basing his actions on the original non-call. Which makes sense, now that I think about it. The umpire thought the appeal, the overturn, and the protest were all correct, it was just a bizarre play.

ya - I think Melvin had a valid reason there.

no longer in first. :'(

Related post a few back. But geez, I thought they'd hang on longer than the first two games.

no runs in 18 straight innings :/

They need a solid right-handed hitter off the bench, the team is very thin - as usual

It's be nice if they could get Prado in there to play second. I know Roberto Benigni's fun, and I'm not trying to scapegoat him, but you need more.

Taking a break during the meltdown. Reading to jump back on the bandwagon at a moment's notice if things turn around.

not even a wild card spot anymore :(

My typos on here get ever-more plentiful and more creative. Apparently I'm reading books on how to jump on a bandwagon.

hard to type through the tears.

saw the Dickey-Reyes triumph last night. Angel fans are annoying; around the 5th thousands of them started flashing the lights on their phones, out of boredom.

yet another replay that seems to have gone the wrong way against the J's. wtf

@gregorMLB
This actually happened: Lind said his mom wanted him to get an MRI on foot because he didn't have one yet. That revealed the fracture.

@gregorMLB
Lind: "My mom wanted me to get an MRI,which I hadn't had yet, because it wasn't getting any better. So I asked for an MRI and it showed up."

lol

Great start to the second half: hitters strike out 17 times (Darvish, granted), J.P. Arencibia provides the offense for the Rangers.

The Rasmus/Lewis mini-controversy is pathetic. Slow news day? Lewis is delusional and what's more, the bunt sucked. If Lewis had fielded his position properly he could have thrown him out.

happy dave stieb's birthday