Blue Jays GDT: 2022 v6 | Next: Fri, Jul 8 | @ Sea | 10:00pm ET/7:00pm PT | Stripling vs Kirby (APPLE TV ONLY)

[The Nemesis]

Two baseball games! What a great way to spend a holiday weekend.

Gausman injured.

Well, okay, maybe they will bring in someone interesting to...

Brings in Lawrence.

*Turns off the TV.

Okay, second game! Hopefully they will give Castillo or some other interesting name a chance to...

Hatch is pitching.

*Turns off TV and spends the rest of the night playing Elden Ring.

Castillo pitched at the end of the first game, which was kinda stupid. Lawrence couldn't keep going because he was coming off short rest having thrown almost 100 pitches in his last Buffalo start, but surely they could've burned Thornton for a couple innings instead of the guy who was explicitly mentioned multiple times as the designated long-man that was left besides Lawrence.

Of course then Castillo was demoted so they could activate Hatch for game 2 and I'm not sure who else on the roster would've had burnable options to send down (IIRC there was something said about not being able to just immediately drop Lawrence, which would've made the most sense.)

So it was like a compounding comedy of errors.

 

[TGB]

So it was like a compounding comedy of errors.

As soon as I saw who was pitching I turned the games off because I knew the outcome would be...not so good. It's Tampa.

Heck, I don't even know how the second game ended yet. *checks* Yep, good call. Was able to finish off Maliketh during that time.

 

[Blitzkrug]

f***ing Tampa man.

Two dinky ass singles and then a Chapman error. Only they can get luck like that against the Jays it feels like.

 

[canucksfan]

 

[Blitzkrug]

I didn't realize Tampa got Baz in that Archer trade too. Good god, Pirates.

 

[habamillions]

Hernandez makes terrible decisions on the basepaths. That is his 2nd this week

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Blown opportunity with Baz not being sharp. I hope he doesn't settle in

Also, Teo could've hit the deck there lol

 

[Blitzkrug]

That's honestly just a nice play by the Rays defense.

Walls had to stop to tag the trailing runner and then fire a bullet to Choi, who somehow stayed on the bag to lock up the double play.

Sucks that it was Gurriel running there. Anyone with speed probably beats that out.

 

[kb]

Hernandez makes terrible decisions on the basepaths. That is his 2nd this week

He had no option. Stopping just gets him into a rundown after the throw to first.

 

[habamillions]

He had no option. Stopping just gets him into a rundown after the throw to first.

But it scores a run.

 

[kb]

But it scores a run.

It does. But it's a split second timing thing.

 

[Blitzkrug]

Can't ask for much more out of Stripling today.

Even the run he gave up was on two weak hits and a Chapman error.

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Finally got a run in, although it really should be more given how Baz is missing his spots with the offspeed pitches

 

[Blitzkrug]

Vladimir "gigabrain baserunner" Guerrero Jr

How did a defensive savant like Keirmaier get caught like that?

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Damn what a throw by Moreno. Paredes got a good jump, too

Chicken strips doing his thing. Two more innings, please!

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

LOL Baz

 

[Blitzkrug]

Take a f***ing pitch, Bo. Jeez.

 

[canucksfan]

Jays need runs they had so many opportunities

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

How the hell is this game tied??

 

[The Nemesis]

Damn what a throw by Moreno. Paredes got a good jump, too

Chicken strips doing his thing. Two more innings, please!

Nah man. Gotta pull him now so they can put Thornton in for an inning then burn through 4 more relievers the rest of the way.

 

[habamillions]

Baz giving the jays tons of opportunities but jays not taking them.

 

[CherryToke]

Benching Kirk is sure paying off today lol

Clown show organization

 

[trellaine201]

Really ugly series.

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

f***

 

[habamillions]

What a joke. Everything going right for tampa. Jays cant get a clutch hit to save their life