Blue Bird Banter

Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images The Jays start a series with the Rays at George Steinbrenner Field. I don’t know if that’s better or worse than playing at the Trop. This is great. "A lot of hard work and sleepless nights led me here. I've been waiting a long time for this."The lineup card is going to Dad Congrats on your first @MLB win, Braydon Fisher! … [Read more...] about Game #50 GameThread: Jays @ Rays

Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The Jays had multiple opportunities to break this game open at various times and simply couldn’t execute. The Jays got 4 hits and 8 walks and managed just a single run. Meanwhile, the Rays scored all three runs via the long ball. To be fair, Drew Rasmussen wasn’t particularly dominating, managing … [Read more...] about Rays Down Jays 3-1

Photo by Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images Part 1: The Infield I’m reviving a series I started but never finished last year, picking one statistical indicator for every player on the Blue Jays to try to tell the story of their season. We’re roughly a quarter of the way in (plus eight games, but what’s a week between friends?), so we have a pretty good body of work for each … [Read more...] about One Stat To Watch for Every Blue Jays Hitter

John E. Sokolowski-Imagn Images Padres 6 Blue Jays 7 (11 innings) What an exciting set of extra innings. Top of the 10th Brendon Little is pitching Xander Bogaerts on second. Little got two quick outs but gave up a single, and the Padres were ahead. Little got Machado to ground out to end the inning. Bottom of the 10th Nathan Lukes at second. Jonatan Clase, who had a … [Read more...] about Extra Inning Win Completes Jays Sweep

Dan Hamilton-Imagn Images We have an early game today. It would be nice to get the sweep. I was worried that we would get swept and be well below .500. On the cat front, they are getting a little more comfortable. The very shy one came up to me for petting and sat on my lap for a long time. They have both been in the same room playing with toys. They still hide out … [Read more...] about Game #49 GameThread: Padres @ Jays