Toronto Blue Yays! (50-41) vs Arizona Diamond-Bahs! (52-39) July 14-16

Parataxis · Post #101 » by **Parataxis** » Sun Jul 16, 2023 5:56 pm

Wow. Gurriel just stole a run from the Jays with that catch.

Boogie! · Post #102 » by **Boogie!** » Sun Jul 16, 2023 6:03 pm

Gurriel trash

Parataxis · Post #103 » by **Parataxis** » Sun Jul 16, 2023 6:04 pm

Having Varsho in the outfield saves us more runs than having him at the plate costs us.

JN · Post #104 » by JN » Sun Jul 16, 2023 6:07 pm

Some sloppy stuff so far today

Boogie! · Post #105 » by **Boogie!** » Sun Jul 16, 2023 6:56 pm

Espinal runs like he has bricks for feet.

ItsDanger · Post #106 » by **ItsDanger** » Sun Jul 16, 2023 7:11 pm

Kikuchi not happy, pulling him little early. This 3rd time through lineup is getting overmanaged vs adjusting your pitching tactics.

Boogie! · Post #107 » by **Boogie!** » Sun Jul 16, 2023 7:17 pm

How did guerrero miss that looked like a hanger.

Post #108 » by **Schad** » Sun Jul 16, 2023 8:00 pm

ItsDanger wrote:Kikuchi not happy, pulling him little early. This 3rd time through lineup is getting overmanaged vs adjusting your pitching tactics.

Kikuchi walked three and hit two more in less than five innings. Barely threw more than 50% strikes over 89 pitches. Definitely not overmanaging to remove him before his wildness inevitably cost us runs.

ItsDanger · Post #109 » by **ItsDanger** » Sun Jul 16, 2023 8:14 pm

Schad wrote:
ItsDanger wrote:Kikuchi not happy, pulling him little early. This 3rd time through lineup is getting overmanaged vs adjusting your pitching tactics.

Kikuchi walked three and hit two more in less than five innings. Barely threw more than 50% strikes over 89 pitches. Definitely not overmanaging to remove him before his wildness inevitably cost us runs.

Going by his game log, Schneider has him on a fairly strict 90 pitch limit.

SharoneWright · Post #110 » by **SharoneWright** » Sun Jul 16, 2023 8:19 pm

Mr Clutch

Brinbe · Post #111 » by **Brinbe** » Sun Jul 16, 2023 8:20 pm

finally getting those hits with risp. portends to a good 2nd half if they keep it up. numbers should be on their side there.

Fairview4Life · Post #112 » by **Fairview4Life** » Sun Jul 16, 2023 8:23 pm

Late innings Danny Jansen has reached “Jose Bautista coming up against Darren O’Day” levels of excitement for me.

Post #113 » by **Schad** » Sun Jul 16, 2023 8:29 pm

ItsDanger wrote:Going by his game log, Schneider has him on a fairly strict 90 pitch limit.

Think that mostly owes to Kikuchi being thoroughly mediocre and our bullpen being very good, given that we don't do the same for other starters. Kikuchi's not good (he has the worst HR/9 among starters leaguewide by a laaaaaaarge margin); he isn't as bad as last year, but he puts a tonne of guys on base, and the main thing supporting him at the moment is that he's top five in MLB in stranding runners, which isn't sustainable. In general he's a lit fuse on a large bomb, and you want to wring a few innings out of him and then get the 'pen in.

Randle McMurphy · Post #114 » by **Randle McMurphy** » Sun Jul 16, 2023 8:30 pm

Maybe Jansen isn’t the clutchest hitter since Bautista, maybe he’s the clutchest Jays hitter ever?

SharoneWright · Post #115 » by **SharoneWright** » Sun Jul 16, 2023 8:31 pm

A walk with a 5 run lead to start the 9th. Batter didn’t even swing once.

SharoneWright · Post #116 » by **SharoneWright** » Sun Jul 16, 2023 8:32 pm

Randle McMurphy wrote:Maybe Jansen isn’t the clutchest hitter since Bautista, maybe he’s the clutchest Jays hitter ever?

Fernandez?

I was on an externship in Houston in’98 and my roommate and I dubbed him “the money man”.

JN · Post #117 » by JN » Sun Jul 16, 2023 8:32 pm

FFS, you can't walk the leadoff hitter in the ninth when you have a five run lead. A walk is just as bad as a HR in this situation.

SharoneWright · Post #118 » by **SharoneWright** » Sun Jul 16, 2023 8:34 pm

Throw some gd strikes

Corinne · Post #119 » by **Corinne** » Sun Jul 16, 2023 8:36 pm

So what are we gonna do about Mitch White.

Post #120 » by **Schad** » Sun Jul 16, 2023 8:42 pm

Corinne wrote:So what are we gonna do about Mitch White.

As it stands he doesn't pitch in anything even approaching medium leverage...a five-run ninth-inning lead is the most-important situation he's faced to date (it's the first time he has entered with the team leading by fewer than 10 runs), and even then he got lifted before the game was actually on the line. He'll get shunted into the minors when we pick up a reliever or two at the deadline, but we're clearly avoiding situations where he can really harm anything anyway.