Game 30 – Fighting Sickness

Nice to see someone else on the losing side of a CG. What is worse for Buehrle is that he lost w/o giving up an earned run. That’s the way baseball goes sometimes. What looks like a harmless 2-out error w/nobody on in the 1st inning, suddenly becomes 2 runs w/a couple hits and those end up the only runs of the game.

Another great outing from Marcum, he doesn’t seem to be suffering any setbacks in his 2nd yr as a starter. He looked like he hit a bit of a wall in the 7th losing his control but hearing afterwards that Marcum was throwing up after the 1st and 2nd innings it makes his outing that much better.

Further going to show the lack of work for the bullpen after 7 days off Camp comes in to throw 4 pitches. Meanwhile Tallet hasn’t thrown in the same length and Frasor is working on just 1 less day of rest.

Although Marcum seems to be getting more ground ball outs this yr, if there is one pitcher that McDonald should never be starting for it is Marcum. Since he did this is the 2nd time the Jays have put this infield alignment together (Left to Right: Rolen, McDonald, Hill, Overbay) and it is hands down the best defensive infield any team can put out there. In fact if you include the pitcher, on this day Marcum, it is that much better. It was on display in this game and it is a joy to watch, but I still believe Eckstein deserves the majority of starts, especially having seen how TOR’s offence has been performing this season.

Not surprised to see a quick game, 2 hrs. 10 mins., given 2 struggling offences plus Buehrle on the mound. Over the last several yrs, Buehrle’s starts average the shortest time while 2nd to him is Halladay. So we’ll see if Doc can out pace him on Sun.

As for the game stats:
NAdv: Overbay (3)
P-NAdv: Buehrle
WG: Cabrera, McDonald 2 (4), Overbay (1)
ME(f): Anderson