mvn.com - 7/1/2009
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We are in the "Hotzilla" phase of Ben Zobrist who has reached base safely in all seven of eight PAs in the Toronto series, with the only out on a sacrifice fly. And since June 24, Hotzilla has walked 10 times in his last 29 plate appearances. His line for that seven game stretch goes for ...
Garza feasts on Jays
bluejayhunter.com 7/1/2009 — Image courtesy of Daylife So long as Matt Garza is on the mound, it sounds like the Tampa Bay Rays have no problem playing the Toronto Blue Jays. Beat reporter Jordan Bastian provides us with another nugget of depressing truth against the Blue Jays via Twitter : Rays' Matt Garza has now ...
Make Ricky Romero a Canadian
bluejayhunter.com 7/1/2009 — Somebody get on the phone to the Governor General Michelle Jean and tell her to give Ricky Romero an honourary Canadian citizenship, because he did this this fair nation proud today. Representing Canada's baseball team in the special Canada Day jersey, Ricky Romero pitched his second straight ...
Left in the Dust, Rays Take Two Out of Three from Jays
tbsportsblog.com 7/2/2009 —
The Toronto Blue Jays ended the Tampa Bay Rays seven game winning streak but not before dropping two out of three games to a Rays team that has surpassed them in AL Eastern division.
The Rays were the hottest team in the majors in the month of June and a lot of it is due to their ...
All Things Rays - Going for a Toronto Sweep
raysallday.com 7/1/2009 —
The Rays send James Shields to the mound this afternoon to try to secure an important three-game sweep of the Toronto Blue Jays. A win would give a four-game separation between the Rays and the Jays in the AL East standings.
The Jays will try to avert the sweep by sending young left-hander ...
Jays Find A Way To Win On Canada Day!
beerswithboggs.com 7/1/2009 —
So for those of you out there that didn’t know, today was Canada Day. As a result the majority of the working population in Canada got the day off, yours truly included. In celebration of a Wednesday with no work I went with the obvious day off activity, a Blue Jays game. The Jays had ...
Settling the Romero/Tulowitzki draft argument
bluejayhunter.com 7/3/2009 — The day was June 7th, 2005; a day that up until this year had haunted the members of Blue Jays management because it was the day that they let Troy Tulowitzki get away. That was ... until Ricky Romero skyrocketed his way through the minor leagues and on to the Blue Jays 40-man roster. Four ...
Do the Jays Have the First Half AL Rookie of the Year?
bluebirdbanter.com 7/6/2009 — Before the season started, I figured the Jays had a good shot at having the Rookie of the Year because I thought Travis Snider would have a great season. Shows what I know. But even without him the Jays have two strong candidates for first half ...
Off Day Thoughts
bluejayhunter.com 7/2/2009 — Today the Blue Jays will enjoy a much-needed day off before they have to play four straight afternoon games at the Wind Tunnel (officially know as the new Yankee Stadium). I'm predicting that the over/under for home runs hit in this series will be somewhere around 12. Maybe I should put in a ...
Make Ricky Romero, a Canadian —
Bleacher Report - MLB 7/1/2009
Somebody get on the phone to the Governor General Michelle Jean and tell her to give Ricky Romero an honourary Canadian citizenship, because he did this fair nation proud today.
Representing Canada's baseball team in the special Canada Day ...