Royals Review May 31, 2023
Royals Rumblings - News for May 31, 2023
The Orioles signed Aaron Hicks to a big league deal. At FanGraphs: how have the new rules changed the game? Within that piece is a link to the pitch violation leaderboards, which is an interesting pool of data! Also at FanGraphs: what is a web gem worth? The White Sox may get Mike Clevinger and Elvis Andrus back this week. Ben Joyce made his MLB debut with the Angels. Toronto’s Chris Bassitt says the Blue Jays were tipping pitches, and Aaron Judge was glancing into the dugout to pick up information about the tips, in regards to the saga from last week. Out: the ‘Drake...
Bluebird Banter May 27, 2023
Late rally falls short, Jays lose 9-7
Nick Wosika-USA TODAY Sports Despite the best efforts of one man offensive wrecking crew Bo Bichette Blue Jays 7 at Twins 9 The ultimate score was closer than it was, as the jays fell behind early, knotted it in the middle inning before a power surge from the Twins before a late charge fell short. Bo Bichette started things off right, continuing his torrid streak by driving a high fly ball over the left field wall for a 1-0 lead: Unfortunately, that lead was not to stand long as Chris Bassitt was neither sharp nor had his good stuff with his velocity down a couple...
Bluebird Banter May 27, 2023
Game #53 GameThread: Jays @ Twins
Photo by David Berding/ Game two against the Twins today. Chris Bassitt gets the start. He was having a great May until his last start, and even that wasn’t his fault. He went 6.1 innings, with 7 hits, 2 earned, 1 walk, 4 strikeouts, with 4 unearned runs. He didn’t get much help from his defense, but then he followed up his teammate’s errors by giving up home runs. Pablo Lopez has a 3.75 ERA this month, with 29 home runs in 24 innings. Tyler Heineman gets a start today (day game after night game for Kirk). Today's Lineups BLUE JAYS TWINS George...
Bluebird Banter May 22, 2023
Jays Lose to Rays
Photo by Mike Ehrmann/ Blue Jays 4 Rays 6 Well, that was an interesting (or terrible) game. Our ‘Gold Glove’ (there have been many poor Gold Glove choices) first baseman made two errors (could almost be three). One on a throw that he stretched for but couldn’t hold onto, and one that a ground ball that he missed hit his body (it was a tough play, I can’t blame him for just knocking it down). Then Chris Bassitt made the play on and tossed it to Vlad, but he missed it. A lot was going on, but Vlad, instead of getting his foot on the side of the bag, had his foot...
Bluebird Banter May 17, 2023
Danny Jansen Hits Game Winning Home Run
Dan Hamilton-USA TODAY Sports Yankees 0 Blue Jays 3 (10 innings) Can I say I love Danny Jansen? A tenth-inning home run, a game-winning home run! WOW. Chris Bassitt hasn’t given up a run in his last three starts. 27 innings without a run scored against him. That’s a pretty amazing run. But we couldn’t score for him tonight, so no W. Tonight, Chris went 7 innings, allowing just 3 hits, 1 walk with 7 strikeouts. Unfortunately, we couldn’t score for him. Gerrit Cole went 6 innings and allowed 7 hits and 2 walks with 6 strikeouts. We had our chances: In the first...
