Sometimes this offence can surprise you. Today they go out and score 6 runs off Lackey (7 total) who had an ERA under 2 coming into the game (in fact it was still under 2 after the game). It is not unlike when they hit Edison Volquez around (who was the NL ERA leader at the time). Yet they can’t do anything against Jarrod Washburn, Greg Smith, or Jason Marquis. Of course that’s just baseball, on any given day any team can win and any pitcher can have a good/bad day. So there is a reason they play the games after all. Its not like sim leagues where the players perform very close to their prior performance. In real life players will exceed expectations or underperform for 1 game, 1 week, 1 mth, or sometimes even a yr by large margins. Sure more often than not over the course of 162 games players tend to perform at their career level (excl. 1st and last few seasons), but you just never know.
It was another strong start from Halladay going 7 while giving up just 2 runs. He struck out another 7 and continues to be among the league leaders (along w/Burnett).
B.J. Ryan must really be starting to hate Anaheim. He has now given up 4 runs in 1.2 IP over 2 appearances incl. taking the blown save and loss in one of them. Luckily Ryan came in w/a 4 run lead today and got a big DP from Napoli for the 1st 2 outs of the inning after the 1st 3 batters had reached.
Alex Rios is sure running wild against the Angels. He stole 3 bases today to go w/the 2 he stole yesterday, and he stole 2 in the series at Toronto earlier this yr. That makes it 7 for 7 in 8 games. By the way Rios ended up w/3 hits and 2 RBI’s on the day.
Rolen and Zaun were the only Jays not getting in on the hit action. Rolen in particular struggled, striking out 3 times. The team as a whole went just 2 for 10 w/RISP.
On the other side of the diamond Guerrero had a 2B and HR and 3 RBI’s while Figgins had 3 hits. Figgins did however take a bad risk in the 9th down by 2 trying to stretch a 1B into a 2B. He did make it in safely but he didn’t represent the tying run and more than likely w/2 outs the Jays would have played behind him at 1st allowing him to take 2nd on defensive indifference anyway.
Now for the stats:
Adv: Zaun (4), Kotchman
P-Adv: Downs (2), Lackey
Adv+: Kendrick
P-Adv+: Ryan (1)
ME(f): Kendrick
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