These guys are so happy. pic.twitter.com/X9PRF5zV10 — Ian Hunter (@BlueJayHunter) October 2, 2016 And you can finally exhale (for now)! Backed by a phenomenal pitching performance from Aaron Sanchez and a clutch two-run single from Troy Tulowitzki, the Blue Jays squeezed out a 2-1 win to cap off the 2016 regular season in Boston, and…
Embed from Getty Images After things had gone so so so terribly wrong over the past few days, literally everything went right last night. The Jays squeezed past the Red Sox with some small ball in the ninth inning, snapping their three-game slide, and the Orioles, Tigers, and Mariners, all teams jockeying with them for wild card…
Embed from Getty Images Here we are. Important October baseball in Boston, just as we expected — but nothing like we expected. This was supposed to be the series. From the beginning of the season when we first looked ahead in the schedule, we knew this series in Boston was going to be the one…
Embed from Getty Images In perhaps their most important game of the 2016 season to date, J.A. Happ and the Blue Jays delivered. Happ held the Red Sox to two runs over six excellent innings, the Benoit, Grilli, Osuna combination shut things down the rest of the way, and a Melvin Upton two-run bomb in…
Last night, the Blue Jays welcomed the Red Sox to town to kick off the most important series of the season (until a couple of weeks from now when they play again at Fenway). And it didn’t go very well! The Jays booted the ball around in the field, making life difficult for Marco Estrada,…
Embed from Getty Images They’re supposed to be easy wins. That’s what you expect when you see the name of the division’s last placed team on the schedule. Get the automatic wins against the junk-ass Rays out of the way so we can worry about the Orioles and Red Sox, ya know, the real teams that…
Embed from Getty Images You’d think that playing a team sitting in last place with a record 20 games below 500 while you’re in the heat of a September playoff race would be some kind of godsend. But that’s never the case with the Tampa Bay Rays, who, while terrible, are completely capable of being inexplicably and frustratingly…
Embed from Getty Images Yesterday afternoon was a signature game for both teams. It was one of those holy shit this team is going to win the goddamn World Series ones for the Jays who rallied back from multiple deficits and eventually scored the winning run on an inside-the-park home run. For the Twins, though,…
Embed from Getty Images Last night, the Minnesota Twins crept into Rogers Centre for the first time since last August where they were kicked in the head so hard that not only was their season guttered, but they fell into oblivion the following year too. Remember that? The Twins were in a playoff spot last August before the…
Embed from Getty Images See?! That’s baseball, for ya! After blowing a one-run lead in the ninth inning of Friday’s game, Roberto Osuna got a chance to redeem himself in a virtually identical situation. And he did good! In the process, he put the Jays in a position to not only win the series this…
Embed from Getty Images Baseball gives and baseball takes away. The events of this past week are a prefect example of that sentiment. On Tuesday night, baseball gave. After looking completely hopeless at the plate for 14 consecutive innings in The Bronx, the Jays rallied back from a 6-0 deficit with a 12-run explosion…
Embed from Getty Images Russell Martin brought this team and fanbase back to life yesterday afternoon with a 2015-esque three-run bomb backed by an excellent performance from Aaron Sanchez. Can Marcus Stroman carry the torch? His pattern of having a bad start followed by a very good one would suggest he can!
