A two out walk to Kendall was left stranded as Mondesi flied out to deep centre.

Awwww - Mondesi flies out to end the inning.
He's probably in the clubhouse smashing a radio as I type this.

I tuned in a few minutes late to the Jays-Pirates game. Can someone post Toronto's starting lineup?

With two games, and having many of the bullpen regulars pitch yesterday, expect to see many of the kids pitching today.

Also Wilner mentioned that V-Dub is still injured and Jayson Werth is nursing a sick wife and kids, so Jason Waugh, who played at Dunedin last year, gets the call up from minor league camp.

Reed, Cat, Noah Hall, Phelps, Quiroz. The others (I think) are Pond, Woodward and Hudson. No DH because the Pirates are the home team. That's not necessarily the batting order.

J.J. Davis hits a solo homer off McGowan. 2-1 Jays.

McGowan walks Jose Castillo, then Rick Reed found a gap in rightcentre. Hall threw to third trying to get Castillo but threw it into the dugout. Castillo strolled home with the tying run.

Noah Hall picked off at first.
Phelpsy caught looking.
Ouch.

Hall reaches on an error, but is later picked off. Let's see - thrown out at home with no one out, throws a ball into the dugout and gets picked off first. Maybe he's trying too hard.

The mlb radio guy is awful with names, referring to Simon "Bond" and "Todd" Banks. Banks is now in to pitch the bottom of the third.

Sorry about the lineup. Berg and Aaron Hill are playing second and short. So that's Quiroz, Phelps (1B), Berg, Hill, Pond(3B), Hall(RF), Reed, Cat.

I do give these mlb radio guys credit for pointing out how awful the Jays' new uniforms are.

Now it's "Aaron Pond" is at the plate for the Jays. Mark Guthrie pitching. Now he's corrected himself. Simon Pond gets a hit.

Thanks for the lineup, Robert.

The play-by-play guy has now gotten Pond's last name correct, but has changed his first name to Aaron.

Man, I type slow.

Three singles (Pond, Hill and Berg) with a Quiroz strikeout mixed in, produces a base loaded 1 out situation with the pitcher up. Banks grounds weakly and the run comes in to score. 3-2 Jays (top 4th). Reed has now walked to reload the bases.

Cat produces a bases-clearing double with 2 outs - 6-2 Jays.

Thanks, Robert. I'm eager to hear the reports on Banks.

Hall reaches on another error as the shortstop Abraham Nunez throws one in the dirt. Guthrie is knocked out of the game. O-Henry Rodriguez (!) comes in to play RF on the double switch - Willis Roberts now pitching.

Josh Phelps lines one at the third baseman Chris Stynes, who is able to recover and get the final out.

http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/audio/gda/index.jsp
Here's the site, COMN to listen.

Banks begins his second inning of work. He seems to be getting ahead of the hitters consistently. Banks retires Stynes on a routine fly to centre after getting ahead, then gets ahead 0-2 on Castillo before coming into the kitchen and hitting Castillo on the arm. O-Henry's up.

O-Henry homers. 2 run shot I think. 6-4 Toronto.

O-Henry smokes a homerun the pitch after a foul fly that Cat couldn't catch. 6-4 Jays. Tike Redman up - another first pitch strike to him.

Ground ball to third, followed by a ball smoked to second. Berg knocked it down and made the final out. That should be it for Banks - a few hard hit balls but the young man got ahead of nearly every hitter he faced.

Francisco Rosario is in the house!

Grounder to third, followed by a Mondesi foul pop to first. So far so good.

Ouch.
Solo home run, Craig Wilson.
6-5 Jays.

In the Jays-Yanks game, Toronto is up 6-1 in the top of the 5th according to ESPN's scoreboard. No idea how they scored.

But Craig Wilson takes him deep on a 1-2 pitch.

Randall Simon quickly flies out. A Tosca interview is now playing.

I've gotta leave the house how, so if anyone is listening feel free to continue the play-by-play.

i'll try.....damn work getting in the way...

#151630 Posted 03/10/2004 02:38 PM by Robert Dudek:

But Craig Wilson takes him deep on a 1-2 pitch.

#151631 Posted 03/10/2004 02:40 PM by Robert Dudek:

Randall Simon quickly flies out.


I bet Pirate fans have already got their Lloyd McClendon voodoo dolls out. Is there anything more telling of the problems in Pittsburgh than these 2 back to back posts?

9-8 pirates. Wheels are coming off now.

Pirates score 6 runs in the 7th to take an 11-8 lead aided largely by horrible defence from the Jays. Yet again.

Two run homer by Sequea in the ninth, the game is tied 11-11.

Now the game is 12-11.

No details but the Jays beat the Yankees 8-2 in the other game and it doesn't appear that Hentgen gave up any runs unless he pitched into the 5th inning. Kevin Brown took the loss and no homeruns were hit.

Much less ugly than the Pirates game certainly where balls are flying out of the park in every direction and routine plays are routinely booted.

The game just finished, the jays won 13-11.

http://toronto.bluejays.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/tor/news/tor_news.jsp?ymd=20040310&content_id=648423&vkey=spt2004gamer&fext=.jsp
COMN for the summary on the Yankees matchup and boxscore

I presume the D. Peterson in the Yanks boxscore is actually Adam Peterson. That would seem to coincide with his three strikeouts.

Buzzie, we hardly knew yee.

Rios took a humbling 0-5 today. There goes all that .650 talk of yesterday.

Boycotting the Yankees, eh Robert?

The fact that Selig hates the Yankees is enough of a reason not to boycott them.

Hell, boycott the Red Sox, who tried to nickle and dime A-Rod and the Rangers, and when they failed, cried foul to high heaven.

Please. There are a lot urgent problems in baseball than Steinbrenner's famously deep pockets.

Mr. Selig does not hate the Yankees. He views them as a cash cow to milk and provide money for his Brewers and other selected owner/friends. He loves the Yankees. He loves the way they spend. He loves the luxury tax he gets to collect and the revenue sharing money. He loves it when the baseball public, afflicted by the blinding light of Mr. Steinbrenner's band of mercenary all-stars, flocks to the TV screen and the ballpark to see a manifestly unfair contest.

Mr. Steinbrenner's f*ck you jack attitude towards the rest of major league baseball is unseemly, considering he and his Yankees achieved their position of revenue dominance by means of a protected market - which, in effect, was a gift from the MLB collective. Mr. Selig could increase revenue for everyone in the long run by breaking up the Yankees' market dominance by putting new teams in there to compete, while blunting Steinbrenner's ability to convert his edge into on fìeld dominance. That he does nothing proves that he's either short-sighted or uninterested or both.

I don't give a d*mn if no one agrees with me. As a baseball consumer I have the right to boycott any team I choose, if I choose to do so. I've given my position a lot of thought. Rather than harping on competitive imbalance ad naseum, I've decided to take action as an individual. It may be a tiny thing but it's pretty much all I can do at the moment.