Niall O Donohue (#2JBrumfield) joins us for a Vancouver Canadians playoff preview for the upcoming home games starting tomorrow, Tuesday, September 10th at Rogers Field at Nat Bailey Stadium.

Keeping up appearances
Keeping up the pretense is
All that's really left for us

Playing out the string, continued

Vancouver won again and are headed to the playoffs on the back of two wins in a row. Dunedin also ended their season on a high, they won on Sunday for their sixth win in a row. They did not make the playoffs. Vancouver starts their playoff on Tuesday in a best of five, winner take all, series.

Buffalo had a big win with Orelvis back in the lineup. New Hampshire lost, their season cannot end soon enough.

Buffalo and Dunedin each had narrow 5-4 wins. Vancouver scored three runs in the bottom of the ninth for a win. New Hampshire lost.

Dunedin won both ends of a doubleheader against the Yankees. New Hampshire and Vancouver lost but Kendry Rojas was outstanding for Vancouver, just one hitter reached base in six innings. Buffalo were rained out.

I said watchin' them planes
I wish I was on one
I'm sittin' here thinking 'bout my crazy dream

Playing out the string, continued.

Vancouver had a walk off win and that sent them to the playoffs. Steward Berroa had a big game for Buffalo as they shutout Lehigh Valley. JP Freethy hit an inside the part home run in extra innings to get the win for Dunedin. New Hampshire lost.

New Hampshire 6 Portland 1 Game One
New Hampshire 3 Portland 1 Game Two
Eugene 10 Vancouver 7
Dunedin Tampa PPD Lehigh Valley 5 Buffalo 4

Boxscores

The Blue Jays affiliates were 3-0 on Tuesday. Dunedin's game in Tampa was rained out.

Ring out the bells again
Like we did when spring began

Playing out the string....

Buffalo and Dunedin won. Buffalo had a big 9-0 win while Arjun Nimmala starred in Dunedin's win. Two wins was the best showing of the week but it could have been better. New Hampshire led 2-0 in the eighth but lost 5-2. Vancouver led 8-3 in the ninth and lost. The common thread in the two losses? Walks. The Jays relievers walked eight in those two innings.

James Kaprelian started for Buffalo and gave up nine runs. Dunedin played two and each starter gave up six runs. Vancouver's starter gave up four runs in the first two innings. All of these games were lost. New Hampshire did get good pitching but lost 1-0 with the winning run scoring on a double steal. The affiliates are now 2-19 this week.

It has been a bad week on the farm. The affiliates were 0-4 on Tuesday and Thursday and 1-3 on Wednesday. Friday was another 1-3 with Dunedin having the only win. Dunedin have been trying to play two since Wednesday but each day the rains come in the afternoon, delay the start of game one and limit play to just one game.

Time for decisions to be made
Crack up in the sun
Lose it in the shade

Off to the Twin Cities.

The Jays pitchers were in a generous mood on Thursday. From giving up too many hits, to walks, balks and hit batters, they didn't put up much of a fight. Two of the affiliates outhit their opponents to no avail. All four affiliates lost.