Whoa, A Lot Of Things Happened On Friday. Here’s What Happened!
8 years ago
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Chris Colabello was suspended for PEDs(1)
Troy Tulowitzki and Michael Saunders sat out injured(2)
Russell Martin left the game injured(3)
Aaron Sanchez was bad(4)
Chad Girodo was deece(5)
The Jays missed a huge opportunity in the 6th(6)
The less good part of the lineup comes through!(7)
Roberto Osuna intentionally walked Coco Crisp???(8)
The Jays signed Michael Bourn to a minor league deal(9)
We learned Drew Hutchison will spot start on Sunday(10)
- We’ve already talked about this here, but would you like to talk about the reaction, and then the reaction to the reaction, and then the backlash to the reaction to the reaction? Me either.
- Who had April 22nd in the pool?
- Sounds not too bad. And he hit a double in the game, to boot.
- Aaron kept the walks down, but not the ball. Also… um… he’s now faced 64 left-handed batters this season, compared to 37 right-handers, as teams are loading up on lefties against him. And why wouldn’t they? Lefties are now up to a .250/.344/.464 line against him. Don’t say I didn’t warn you this might end in tears.
- Definitely not mentioning a not-horrific debut from a wholly fungible middle reliever here for lack of much else positive to note! *COUGH*
- Bases loaded, none out, Bautista up. One run. Fuck off! Should have won this one!
- OK, maybe Edwin started the whole thing, but whichever way, that two-out rally that culminated in Kevin Pillar’s two-run bases loaded single? Nails.
- My friend and I agreed that John Gibbons putting Crisp — Coco Crisp!! — on to have Osuna face Khris Davis instead was a move that would make sense enough, so long as it actually worked. It didn’t. So I’m with the GROFs of the world, when he tweets: “I don’t care how bad Davis is, trust your closer and best reliever to get Coco freaking Crisp out in a one-run game.”
- Can’t hurt, and at least it’s for less than the last time Shapiro signed him. HEYO!
- What could possibly go wrong?
- It should go without saying that a deep breath and a look out at the vast expanse of schedule ahead is a much more sensible way to deal with what’s often been a tough-to-watch beginning to this season than, say, freaking out about it, right? I’ll say it anyway, but seriously!
- I tweeted something on Friday night that I kinda liked: Responding to one of those fans who just can’t stand being told that “it’s early” because in the end these games matter, too, I explained that “it’s early” isn’t about games not mattering, it’s about trends not mattering. They’re going to lose a lot, because every team does, but in the big picture, it’s still hard to not be confident that they’ll get it sorted out. As long as, y’know, Tulo and Saunders and Martin get healthy (and two of them get their damn bats going already) and Sanchez figures out how to get lefties out and the bullpen loses its tendency to sometimes be a little too much of a damn mess. *COUGH*
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