And bring back all of those happy days
Put your troubles down
It's time to celebrate
Welcome to the late holiday edition of the Jays Roundup. Great game yesterday: Jays 13 - A's 5.
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Put your troubles down
It's time to celebrate
Welcome to the late holiday edition of the Jays Roundup. Great game yesterday: Jays 13 - A's 5.
- Recaps:
- Spencer Fordin:
It's not a trick question, even if it seems like one. Take an educated guess: What's Toronto's record when the Blue Jays score 10 runs or more?
Some skeptics might guess a losing mark, and rightfully so -- that's just the type of season it's been. However, the mundane truth doesn't bow to that type of bias. The Jays beat Oakland on Sunday, 13-5, pushing their record to 14-1 when they break double digits. By contrast, they're 0-13 when their opponent scores more than 10 runs. - Shi Davidi:
Gabe Gross hit his first career grand slam while Russ Adams homered and drove in three runs in his first major-league start as the Blue Jays beat the Oakland Athletics 13-5 Sunday afternoon.
The other two rookies in Toronto's lineup also had big days, with Alex Rios collecting two hits and scoring twice and catcher Guillermo Quiroz doing a nice job handling the pitchers in his debut behind the plate. - Mike Rutsey:
The off-key crooning, however, didn't throw either Gross, who had five RBIs, or Adams, with two hits and three RBIs, off their respective games. But it certainly affected the A's who made five errors on the day.
Gross feels he has come a long way in the short time.
"The three weeks I've been here, the amount of knowledge that I've picked up has been immeasurable," said Gross who is hitting .240 with two homers and 14 RBIs in 22 games. "I don't think you ever quit learning in this game and the sooner you get to the big leagues, when your'e around the best and learn from the best, I think you can really take off once you get that knowledge. I've tried to soak up everything." - Jeff Blair:
The Toronto Blue Jays picked up a win yesterday and had a prayer answered: Russ Adams, deliver us from Chris Woodward.
A first-round draft pick in 2002 whose arrival had been eagerly anticipated, Adams was 2-for-5 in his first major-league start and hit his first big-league home run, and fellow rookie Gabe Gross belted his first grand slam in a 13-5 win over the Oakland Athletics at the open SkyDome. - Allan Ryan:
The Blue Jays smacked the Oakland A's 13-5 yesterday in a game that smacked an awful lot of the Syracuse SkyChiefs.
Of the 15 players who had a hand in this much-welcomed cakewalk, nine, including four of five pitchers, had spent varying degrees of time — some just now getting sprung — at Triple A this season.
And that's not counting Carlos Delgado, who had played a couple of rehab games in his old stomping grounds in early July and who yesterday unloaded yet another homer in his inspired drive towards another 30-homer, 100-RBI season.
- Spencer Fordin:
- Fordin Notes on Guillermo Quiroz, Eric Crozier, and Russ Adams:
Of course, Adams isn't a finished product. In fact, he's far from it: The Blue Jays think he's still growing into his position, which is why September is seen as a key month for him. The youngster will get a full month to work with Brian Butterfield, Toronto's enthusiastic and indefatigable infield coach.
J.P. Ricciardi, the team's general manager, thinks that's exactly what Adams needs.
"His errors this year were throwing and things like that -- that tells me it was probably on the footwork," he said. "This way, Butterfield gets the whole month. Get him here, let him take ground balls and work on different things." - Rutsey Notes on Sean Douglass, Kerry Ligtenberg, and Ryan Glynn:
The 29-year-old right-hander made his first start with the Jays a winning one and is now 9-16 in his major league career. Against the A's, Glynn went five innings giving up two runs on four hits, walked four, struck out five and pitched his way out of trouble in each of the second, third and fifth innings.
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