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Blue Jays Lose. Donaldson Injured. Everything Awful.

By Cam Lewis

Apr 13, 2017, 22:05 EDT

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What is there to say at this point? The pitching was fantastic yet again, but, yet again, the Jays hitters pissed the game away. Now we’re at 1-8, and it’s getting hard to see any light at the end of the tunnel. Sorry for sounding dramatic, but geez.

Things that were good

Francisco Liriano had an excellent bounce-back after his disastrous first start of the season last week. Liriano went six-and-two-thirds innings allowing just two runs on five hits and two walks while collecting 10 strikeouts. He had one bad inning, the fifth, where Jonathan Schoop, Trey Mancini, Welington Castillo, and J.J. Hardy all hit the ball hard, but otherwise, he was excellent.
Joe Biagini and Joe Smith pitched the remainder of the game, and were great. Biagini had a couple of strikeouts, and Smith struck out the side in the ninth. Hell, the pitchers held Baltimore to five hits, but apparently that isn’t good enough.

Things that weren’t good

The one good thing that happened all game for the bats came in the sixth inning when Josh Donaldson drove in Jose Bautista for the team’s first run. But, of course, Donaldson re-aggravated his calf running the bases, and immediately left the game. Fuck. We’ll hear more about Donaldson tomorrow. Hold your hands in prayer.
The offence, in general, was putrid yet again tonight. Hopeless looking swings, lazy fly balls, nothing hit hard. In the ninth inning, it appeared the Jays had a rally going, where Troy Tulowitzki hit a single and Russell Martin worked a walk off of Zach Britton, but Kevin Pillar and Steve Pearce couldn’t manage to drive them in.
Being 1-8 in general? I mean, I get that it’s only been, like, five per cent of the season, or whatever, but hell, this is getting ridiculous. The Jays have lost eight games and only one has been by more than two runs.