Going to the candidates debate
Laugh about it shout about when you got to choose
Every way you look at it you lose
Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio
a nation turns its lonely eyes to you?
Ouch again.
Recaps:
* Blue Jays rally, but fall short - Eskew
The Rangers scored seven runs off the bullpen, including three off Jason Frasor with two out in the eighth to defeat the Blue Jays, 10-7, at Ameriquest Field. The Blue Jays are 0-5 at Arlington this season.
* Pinch heroics - Ganter
Gibbons sent three pinch hitters to the plate in the inning and was rewarded with two homers. All told, the Jays scored three runs to make it a 7-7 game.
Eric Hinske, hitting for Frank Menechino, and Chris Gomez, hitting for Dave Berg, had the homers, while Russ Adams, who was hitting for Chris Woodward, produced a double.
Two pinch-hit homers in the same inning has only been done seven times prior to last night in American League history and only 14 times in major-league history.
The Jays have only done it one other time in their history. For that you have to go all the way back to June 14, 1986 when Rick Leach and Buck Martinez did it.
* Can't mess with Texas - Ryan
Vernon Wells, with a solo shot in the first, and Orlando Hudson, with a two-run homer in a three-run third that gave Jays a 4-3 lead, also connected for the Jays, who, nevertheless, fell to 0-5 for Texas this season.
Notes:
* Delgado soars in Arlington - Eskew
On Friday night, Delgado hit his 18th career home run at the Arlington ball park, which is the most by any opposing player, breaking a tie with Tino Martinez of the Devil Rays and Tim Salmon of the Angels. Delgado's second highest total for a road park is 12 at Tropicana Field, Yankee Stadium and the Kingdome (which has since been demolished).
* Blue Jay Watch - Ganter
A tough night for catcher Guillermo Quiroz behind the plate did not hurt him in interim manager John Gibbons' eyes.
"I'm not worried about that," Gibbons said. "It was a tough night. Still, he made a nice throw down to second to nail a guy and he came up with a hit late in the game."
Gibbons had him right back in the lineup last night saying the Jays need to see what they have.
* Elliot on Baseball - Elliot
Dave Stewart, the former Blue Jays right-hander and assistant general manager, still is bitter over not being hired by Jays president Paul Godfrey after the 2001 season.
Stewart phoned talk-show host Jim Rome on Friday to say the reason he did not get Toronto's GM job was because of prejudice and the fact ownership felt "more comfortable" with someone else. That someone else would be J.P. Ricciardi.
Stewart said Ricciardi was "less qualified."
So did Rome use his great interview 'style' where he asks a question, gets the answer, and then repeats the answer as a form of a question so the guest repeats himself?
If you listen to a five minute segment of Rome's show on a loop, and then listen to his entire show I suspect you can't tell the difference between the two.
* Jays pitching coach gets a big thank you
The former Blue Jays right-hander, now a big part of the Anaheim Angels pennant drive, intercepted Blue Jays pitching coach Gil Patterson on his way out to the bullpen on Tuesday and told him he had a gift for him.
Escobar was pitching the following day so it wasn't until Thursday that the gift was left at Patterson's locker.
A Rolex Submariner was in the box.
* Today's Game - Dave Bush for the Jays, Chan Ho Park for the Rangers. Game time is 2:05 EST.
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