Game 46 – I Don’t Care if I Never Get Back

The Jays lost 2 out of 3, but yet still won the game. The 2 of 3 referring to the portions of the game between each rain delay. The Phillies won the 1st part 2 – 0 covering one inning. The Jays won the next part 6 – 2 in 5 innings (we’ll include the final out of the Phillies 6th even though it was recorded after the 2nd delay). And the Phillies won the final part 1 – 0 in 3 innings. It is a good thing it means nothing, you could do the same thing w/any game, break it up into innings or parts, but all that matters is who scored the most total.

The 2 rain delays certainly caused both teams to exhaust their bullpens and it hurt the jays a little more b/c the 1st rain delay caused both teams starters out, but the 2nd rain delay caused the Jays to lose their reliever, while PHI was in the midst of changing theirs (they PH in the bottom of the 6th). What it meant was Roy Halladay strolling out of the bullpen. I couldn’t believe it when they announced it. I wasn’t in my seat yet, I was still hiding under cover when over the speakers they said now pitching for the Toronto Blue Jays Roy Halladay. Initially I assumed he would be in there to finish the 6th and pitch the 7th. They would then hand it off to Downs and Ryan, thereby saving Halladay for his next start, not to mention the pitching spot in the order came up in the top of the 8th but Gibbons let Halladay bat. The outing for Halladay would just act as one of his side sessions. This was not the case though as Halladay also pitched the 8th, although he only threw 23 pitches in the outing (compare that to Ryan who had to throw 34 in 1 inning). As we then found out this did push Halladay’s next start back a few days though.

The Jays ended up not using Downs or Benitez out of the bullpen. I’m not sure why as both pitched Sat, but neither threw many pitches and neither worked on Fri.

I think Gibbons could have left Tallet in there longer which may have helped save him from using Halladay. Sure, Tallet had given up 3 straight hits, but the 3rd was an infield single. I would have liked to have seen Gibbons give Tallet the chance to work out of the bases loaded jam he put himself in.

The Jays managed a nice 3 for 7 w/RISP including a 3-run HR from Overbay. I didn’t like the fact that Gibbons started Wilkerson over Overbay, but pinch hitting Overbay certainly worked out well. If Gibbons wants to give Overbay a day off he should do it against a lefty. At least he did it w/Marcum on the mound for the Jays given he is their biggest flyball pitcher.

Now to the stats:
Adv: Werth
P-Adv: Camp (1)
NAdv: Rios (8)
P-NAdv: Seanez