Game 20 – Sleepwalking

The Jays almost seemed to be sleepwalking through this game. Their struggles to score runs continues. Twice they loaded the bases, first in the 3rd w/2 outs (although they got a runner to 3rd w/1 out) and then in the 4th w/1 out and they could not even push across a single run. This is feeling all too familiar. On the bright side Zaun hit his 1st HR of the season.

First rough start of the season for Marcum, and it was really only 1 bad inning. The 2 errors certainly did not help, although just 1 unearned run scored, but it was the walks that hurt. Marcum walked Cabrera on 4 pitches to start the frame, yes its Cabrera and he can take you deep but you hate to put the leadoff man on base, especially if he doesn’t have to work for it. Then the walk to Thomas w/2 outs and a man on 3rd bringing up Pudge. Even though Thomas is LH, and Pudge is RH and certainly is no longer the hitter he once was, but I’d rather see Marcum going after Thomas w/the great changeup of his that works well vs. LH hitters, plus Pudge was swinging a hot bat in the series (6 for 13 up to that point, he finished the series 9 for 17).

Game Stats Scoring Clarification: Should a player come to bat w/runners at 2nd and 3rd none out and hits a SF w/the runner from 2nd also advancing to 3rd, I am not counting that as any kind of advance. My idea behind the advance is to keep track of those AB’s that either move or don’t move the runner, therefore since a SF does not count as an AB, I don’t count it as an advance. The same goes for a player drawing a walk/HBP w/runners at 1st and 2nd none out. Yes, he advanced the runner but no official AB.

Adv+: Renteria, Raburn
P-Adv+: Marcum 2 (2)