Star of the Game: Chien-Ming Wang induces more groundballs than anyone, and he significantly addded to his total last night. He only strikes out a couple of guys a month (evidently a very democratic guy) which is not supposed to be inidicative of success (at least over the long term), but he does a lot of other things very well - he's best in the AL at denying the long ball and fifth in line drive percentage, add to that a very decent 2.4 BB/9 and you have a very effective package. He sure gave the jays more than they could handle last night, going eight shutout Innings and scattering just four hits. His low k-rate is a mystery to me, he seems to consistently throw 95 and has a lot of movement on his pitches, that's the sort of make-up you would expect to lead to good K numbers.
For the Jays: No-one distinguished themselves last night, Wells managed a couple of hits, Glaus had a dinger in the ninth, Downs settled down a little and was effective in the seventh and eighth after he'd let McGowns baserunners score in the sixth. Blah.
Boxscore: Here, but I wouldn't advise looking at it.
Elsewhere in the East: Tampa Bay lost to Detroit, Eric Bedard had a rare poor outing and lost to King Felix and the Mariners and the Red Sox edged the Indians as Carmona lost control in the ninth and gave up a couple of runs on two hit batsmen, a walk and a double.
BP: Geoff Baker had a nice piece in The Star yesterday explaining what is actually going on in batting Practice.
Today: Afternoon game in the Bronx: Marcum goes for the good guys against that guy who like ice-cream.