Game 11 – Running Wild

What a joy it is to come to the ballpark and watch Doc pitch. Nice to see him pitch well here in TEX where he has typically struggled.

A strange move I found by Gibbons was bringing in the infield in the 2nd inning when the Jays are already up 1. You have Halladay on the mound so you don’t expect him to give up much and did Gibbons really expect the Jays were not going to score more runs against Mendoza. No sense giving the Rangers a chance to put up a crooked #. It ended up not mattering as Halladay got the strikeout, but I think an unnecessary risk.

Not sure if Scutaro was just running on his own or it was a missed sign by him or Eckstein. They tried hit and running on the 1st pitch and you don’t often see a team hit and run on 0-1 so I have to think either Scutaro missed the sign to take off the hit and run or he was running on his own. Just b/c Laird struggled throwing last night doesn’t mean the Jays can run wild on him. I have no problem w/the stolen base but if the team is going to continue running like they have been I’d like to see them at least 75%. I have to say I’m a much bigger fan of the hit and run then the stolen base.

For the game stats:
Adv: Catalanotto
P-Adv: Halladay (2)
NAdv: Wells (3)
P-NAdv: Mendoza
ME(r): Zaun (1)