Gosh. Seems to have been an uptick of interest in the local team lately. (More than 200 comments in a thread, and I act!)
Toronto has won 6 of 7 since the first of the recent deadline moves. It hasn't helped them much in the division, where the Yankees have been beating up on Sox of various colours. But they now hold, albeit very precariously, one of the two invites to the Wild Card Game. The Jays, Orioles, and Twins have all lost 52 games so far - Toronto's played two more games, won them both, so they're sort of in the lead.
The series with the Twins resumes tonight, with the mysterious Drew Hutchison on the mound. The game is in Toronto, where Drew has been very good indeed. In his 10 starts in Canada, Hutchison is 7-1, 2.47; he's allowed just 54 H, 14 BB, 3 HR in 62 IP. That's very, very good. It's the 11 games he's started in the USA that beggar description. He's allowed 84 H, 21 BB and 10 HR in just 51 IP - that's a road WHIP of 2.000 which is... well, it's pretty hard to believe. (What's even harder to believe is that he's only been tagged for one loss in the midst of all of this Suckitude.) We don't normally see those kind of numbers, because pitchers who do that aren't normally allowed to pitch that many innings. In fact, a home-road split this dramatic is something outside my experience. I'd be very interested in finding anything similar in the long and musty annals of The Game.
Yankees prospect Luis Severino makes his ML debut against the hapless Red Sox (a phrase I really, really enjoyed typing.) Matt Boyd makes his Tigers debut against Johnny Cueto and the Royals. The Angels went into the ninth inning trailing 3-1; with two out and Pujols on first, Cody Allen walked the bases full, gave up a two run single to C.J. Cron to tie the game. He then wild pitched home the winning run. Nice work, there.
Toronto has won 6 of 7 since the first of the recent deadline moves. It hasn't helped them much in the division, where the Yankees have been beating up on Sox of various colours. But they now hold, albeit very precariously, one of the two invites to the Wild Card Game. The Jays, Orioles, and Twins have all lost 52 games so far - Toronto's played two more games, won them both, so they're sort of in the lead.
The series with the Twins resumes tonight, with the mysterious Drew Hutchison on the mound. The game is in Toronto, where Drew has been very good indeed. In his 10 starts in Canada, Hutchison is 7-1, 2.47; he's allowed just 54 H, 14 BB, 3 HR in 62 IP. That's very, very good. It's the 11 games he's started in the USA that beggar description. He's allowed 84 H, 21 BB and 10 HR in just 51 IP - that's a road WHIP of 2.000 which is... well, it's pretty hard to believe. (What's even harder to believe is that he's only been tagged for one loss in the midst of all of this Suckitude.) We don't normally see those kind of numbers, because pitchers who do that aren't normally allowed to pitch that many innings. In fact, a home-road split this dramatic is something outside my experience. I'd be very interested in finding anything similar in the long and musty annals of The Game.
Yankees prospect Luis Severino makes his ML debut against the hapless Red Sox (a phrase I really, really enjoyed typing.) Matt Boyd makes his Tigers debut against Johnny Cueto and the Royals. The Angels went into the ninth inning trailing 3-1; with two out and Pujols on first, Cody Allen walked the bases full, gave up a two run single to C.J. Cron to tie the game. He then wild pitched home the winning run. Nice work, there.
