Jays Roundup - Far Away Across The Field

Thursday, August 19 2004 @ 09:23 AM EDT

Contributed by: Pepper Moffatt

The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.

  1. Short recap. Ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh yuck. The Jays are now 2-13 in their last 15 games, which is a level of futility only matched by one of my slowpitch teams. The Jays did manage to score some late inning runs but it wasn't enough as they fell to the Red Sox 6-4. Gross, Rios, and Wells all had two hits. Douglass threw three scoreless innings in relief and Frasor threw one. The Jays can't lose tonight, however. It's an off day.

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  2. Fordin Notes on Zaun's injured hand and why Reed and the O-Dog were benched last night. Zaun should be back in the lineup for Friday's game, but if he's still hurt Kevin Cash will be the starting catcher and Dave Berg will be the backup. Is there any position that Dave Berg can't play? Given how weird this year has been I'm afraid we might get the answer to that question.

  3. Rutsey Notes on the benching of O-Dog last night and Zaun's hand injury. Sound familar? Anyhow, Hudson was benched because he was playing so well, not so poorly:

      "Orlando's in such a groove right now," Gibbons said of his second baseman, who is hitting .556 (10-for-18) over his past four games and .462 (18-for-39) over his past 10. "It's my experience that when you face a knuckleballer it can throw you off for a couple of days."

    I've heard that theory before. Anyone done any work to test it?

  4. In "Jays need to appeal to fans, not complain" gives 6 suggestions to the Jays on how they can sell more tickets. I'd like to agree with Griffin, but it's hard when he brings out the old "Luke Prokopec instead of Eric Gagne" myth. I am a little surprised to see that "Bring back the Star pass" isn't here. Oh well.

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