The Jays lose as Tampa Bay again rallied in the late Innings to win 7-3.
Shaun Marcum was great for most of the night, he took a 2-1 lead into the 8th, but then the Tampa Bay bats got working with a vengeance. They scored six off Marcum, Frasor and Downs in the 8th, with a Carl Crawford grand slam off Downs doing most of the damage. The Jays played very well in this series overall, but have only a single win to show for it.
The Jays main four starters could all be heading for new highs in Innings Pitched this year. Assuming they all start another 21 games and carry on at their current rate of Innings per start, these are the figures we would wind up with:
Age On Pace Previous High Difference
Marcum 28 213 168 45
Romero 25 224 192 32
Cecil 23 177 142 35
Morrow 25 193 124 69
Now it's obviously unlikely that all four are going to go the whole season without missing another start, but if they do that's quite a jump in Innings for Cecil and Morrow. Something I'll be keeping an eye on in the second half.
Elsewhere in the East, Boston beat Oakland 6-4 to tie the Jays at 31 wins, but also got some bad news - Josh Beckett is at least 10 days away from starting to throw again. The Yankees got Jorge Posada back and beat up on Baltimore to celebrate. the Orioles season continues to go from bad to worse and they've now lost seven straight. WIth just 15 wins Baltimore is three behind everybody else in the bigs. Dave Trembley will surely be replaced in the next few days, and if as Peter Schmuck suggests the job is eating him alive, it will be the best for everybody. I agree with Schmuck - it's not fair to Trembley who seems to be a decent and dignified man to leave him twisting in the wind. He's had a thankless task as O's skipper, and while some of the blame for this season's mess lies with him, there's a lot of blame to spread around for the Orioles record this season. There is some good news for the Baltimore though, Brian Roberts wil start a minor league rehab on Friday and could be back by the middle of the month and Jake Arrieta won again in AAA, taking his record to 6-2 with a 1.77 ERA.
Awful situation in Detroit last night, when Armando Galarraga was robbed of a perfect game on a blown call at first base on what should have been the last out of the game. After sending 26 Indians' back to the dugout in regulation Galarraga got Jason Donald to bounce one to first, Galarraga covered the bag and took the throw with Donald clearly a step off the base, but veteran umpire Jim Joyce ruled the runner safe. This has been a pretty rough week for the Umpires, we all know they're going to blow some calls, but that's about as bad a call to blow as there is, it's not even as if looked like a bang-bang play. Jim Joyce must be feeling truly awful, he admitted after the game to blowing the call and has aplogised to Galarraga. Twitterer's are reporting that Jim Leyland and Galarraga handled the post game press conference with a great deal of class, Leyland apparently is calling this the 'first 28 out perfect game'.
No game today, the good guys get a day off to prepare for the Yankees this weekend.
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