Jay's lose in the 10th.
Shaun Marcum hung in tough for a solid outing giving up three over seven Innings and keeping the Jays in the game against Zack Grienke. They were one down at the point Marcum finished, after Jose Guillen had given the Royals a three run first Inning lead. Grienke looked more like himself yesterday, getting eight strikeouts in his seven Innings, but Gonzalez got to him in the fourth with a two run shot. McCoy scored in the eighth off a Lewis single to tie things up, but then Downs gave up a solo shot to Alex Gordon in the first extra frame to seal the win for the Royals. The Jays now head south for a tough weekend series with the Rays.
Was it April 1st yesterday? Thats seems to be the only logical explanation for the Cubs plan to move Carlos Zambrano to the bullpen, making him a $90 million setup man. Whilst Zambrano does seem to have a bit of zip on his pitches, in his last three starts he's had an ERA of 4 with 18 strikeouts and 8 walks, for a team thats giving Carlos freaking Silva regular starts those are not numbers I'd be worrying about. The explanation from the Cubs brain trust (and I'm using the term loosely) is that they don't want another lefty in the pen, so Gorzelany stays in the rotation and Big Z heads to relief. It just beggars belief. To his credit Zambrano didn't blow a gasket to the press, instead taking the mature Crash Davis approach and pulling out the 'whatever's good for the team' cliche.
I got quite nostalgic last night watching Doc mowing down Braves' hitter's left and right. I'm sure I'll get used to watching him doing his stuff in a different uniform, but it hasn't happened yet. I'd tell you how he pitched, but just take a look at his line and you'll know:
IP H R BB K
9 5 0 1 7
Former Jay Kevin Millar is joining the MLB Network - this is the first time I've been happy it's not available in Canada.
Off topic, but I know we have a lot of fans of The Wire here - I watched the first two episodes of David Simon's new show Treme yesterday and it's fantastic, especially Clarke Peters.
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