Vernon Wells has earned his salary so far this season.
V-Dub is hitting .714/.778/2.000 with 3 HR and 6 RBI and leads the league in basically everything. On top of that Gonzalez homered, Encarnacion got an RBI, Snider didn't strikeout, heck, Frasor even got a save. It's a good day to be a Jays fan.
In Boston it's never too early too early in the season to stir up a little drama. The controversy du jour is whether David Ortiz should have been benched against Andy Pettite last night after not getting a hit against Sabathia on opening day. Ortiz surprisingly enough was not very happy about this eloquently expressing himself to reporters: "Good,you guys wait till [expletive] happens, then you can talk [expletive]. Two [expletive] games, and already you [expletives] are going crazy. What's up with that, man? [Expletive]. [Expletive] 160 games left. That's a [expletive]. One of you [expletives] got to go ahead and hit for me." Ortiz got an RBI hit last night, so tomorrow the discussion can safely move onto John Lackey's Cy Young chances or whether Bard needs to replace Jon [expletive] Papelbon.
The Jays marketing department have decided no one on the roster is well enough known to the casual fan to base an ad campaign around. Either that or they've got hold of some really good drugs. We're going to be inflicted with a series of commercials based around "a boardroom filled with suit-wearing birds–blue jays, naturally–brainstorming ways to bring more people to Jays games. The frustrated chairman (chairbird?) must deal with a series of stupid suggestions." I didn't even watch the previews and I hate this campaign already. Make the most of the next few days - the campaign starts on April 12th. The ads will run on TSN, Sportsnet, Omni TV and Citytv, I think I'll be watching CBC more than usual over the next few weeks.
Elsewhere in the division Matt Garza was too much for the Orioles, cruising through 8 Innings with just one earned run and eight strikeouts. Rafael Soriano picked up the save to go with last night's win. Soriano hasn't looked very comfortable so far as a Ray, although he was a little better last night than in the first game. Offensively Longoria got the job done with 3 RBI's, a double and a homer. Further north the Red Sox and Yankees went into extra Innings before Boston's bullpen blew up. Papelbon gave up a solo shot to Granderson to start the 10th and proceeded to walk Gardner and Jeter. Aitchison replaced him, but didn't do much better walking Johnson to load the bases and then giving up a run on a Tex groundout. Those two runs were one more than Mo needed as he got the inevitable 1-2-3 in the bottom of the Inning.
QOTD: How's Buck Martinez doing ?
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