Jays Roundup - Play a Little Kiss

Wednesday, September 01 2004 @ 10:21 AM EDT

And tell with poison pills
Bitten in the valley of thirst
The body kills

Mariners 7 - Jays 5

1. Recaps:
   
   • Spencer Fordin:
     
     
     Josh Towers did his job on Tuesday night. He just didn't do enough of it.
     The right-hander worked five strong innings, blemished only by a three-run homer. He left with a one-run lead but was long gone when the game was decided. Seattle peppered the home team's bullpen with two late rallies, exiting the series opener with a 7-5 win.
     
     
     
   • Ian Harrison:
     
     
     Ichiro went 3-for-5 and set a club record for hits in a month and Wilson drove in the winning run with an eighth-inning single as the Mariners rallied from a 4-0 deficit to beat the Toronto Blue Jays, 7-5, on Tuesday.
     
     
     
   • Mike Ganter:
     
     
     Moyer gave up his major-league leading 36th and 37th homers last night on back-to-back pitches but then failed to hang around long enough to benefit from yet another Blue Jays bullpen collapse in a 7-5 Seattle win.
     
     
     
   • CP:
     
     
     Suzuki finished 3-5, giving him 56 hits in the month of August. That breaks the Mariners club record of 54, set by Alex Rodriguez in Aug. 1996.
     
     
     
   • Larry Millson:
     
     
     It was Delgado's 24th homer of the season and gave him 75 runs batted in, keeping alive his chances of having 100 RBIs for his injury-shortened season. The long drive to right centre came after Orlando Hudson's one-out double and was followed on the next pitch by Eric Hinske's 14th homer of the season.
     
     
     
   • Geoff Baker:
     
     
     Playing the kids instead of padding the stats will be the theme this September in Toronto and Delgado showed the youngsters how to run the bases last night in setting up a tying, seventh-inning run. Delgado had already hit an earlier two-run homer when he made the difficult advance from first to second base on a fly ball to right centre and later scored on a single.
     
     
     
   
   
   
2. Fordin Notes on how the Jays like seeing a team with a worse record than them for a change:
   
   
   This year, though, the bottom fell out. Due to an aging core and some significant injuries, the M's have the second-worst record (50-80) in the American League. The Jays are just a few games ahead, and they have their 5-1 record against Seattle to thank.
   
   
   
   
3. Ganter Notes on a former Blue Jay who was traded yesterday:
   
   
   Former Blue Jays catcher Pat Borders has a new address.
   
   The MVP of the 1992 World Series was dealt from Seattle to the Minnesota Twins yesterday. Borders, 41, accepted an option to triple-A Tacoma on July 23 and has been there since.
   
   
   
   
4. Tonight's 7:05PM EST start at the Dome: Righty Gil Meche (4-5 5.53ERA) vs. Righty David Bush (2-3 3.79ERA). For more details see Spencer Fordin's game preview
   
   
5. Bob Elliott has an interesting article on manager John Gibbons in "Don't remember the Alamo".
   
   
6. Richard Griffin thinks the Jays should hire Paul Molitor to manage the Blue Jays. As Griffin puts it in his article "It's time to land Molitor":
   
   
   When the time is right, for both sides, the recent inductee into the Baseball Hall of Fame won't have to be the pursuer. He will be the pursuee. He's not driven to manage. But, with John Gibbons currently serving as Blue Jays' interim, with a capital I, it's time to suggest the Jays' '93 World Series MVP, as field manager, yet again.
   
   
   Am I the only one who thinks that teams who hire name players with no managing experience are absolutely nuts? There are hundreds of hard-working worthwhile candidates who have paid their dues through the minors and have learned enough about managing to write several books on the subject. Why hire a guy who has almost no experience? If the top line of his resume includes "I got several key hits in the World Series", I'm going to move on to the next applicant. But that's just me.
   

45 comments

https://www.battersbox.ca/article.php?story=20040901102152999