The Jays lose as Tampa Bay again rallied in the late Innings to win 7-3.

Ken Griffey Jr. is retiring? Impossible!

The greatest second-generation player in the history of the Great Game -- but only the second-greatest player born in tiny Donora, Penn. -- has apparently decided to call it quits.

Once considered the inevitable successor to Hank Aaron, The Kid "stalled" at 630 dingers. Anyone ever see him play live? Share your memories, live or otherwise, of Ken Griffey Jr. here on Da Box.

Thanks for 22 wonderful seasons, Junior.

The teams that mustered more than four runs were winners Tuesday night.  One of them came close to nailing an impersonation of the big league club's come from ahead loss.

The Jays start the third month of the season with the 5th best record in baseball, bested only by the Rays, Yanks, Twins and Padres.

When I was in Lansing a week ago I took some video of the hitters and pitchers.  I have split the videos into two sets of hitters and two sets of pitchers.  Today it is the first of the hitters, namely Ryan Goins, Ryan Schimpf and Kenny Wilson.

I would adapt a few more lines of the song to be baseball-themed, but that would be the lamest thing I've ever done.

Base runners? Base runners?

We don't need no stinking base runners....

Not much else to say.  One win in five tries including a blowout.  Luckily, the one win featured a nice start by a top prospect.

The draft is eight days away.  Use this thread as a catch all for draft discussion.

It doesn't look like Marc Rzepczynski will be starting for the Jays anytime soon.  After allowing nine runs in the PCL hell on Saturday, Zep's ERA is 18.56.  Lansing also lost and the only win was thanks to BJ LaMura who pitched six shutout innings for New Hampshire.  Chuck Huggins made his AA debut and pitched well in a losing cause. 

Doc fries the fish to perfection!!  Roy Halladay has thrown a perfect game against the Florida Marlins!  Congrats, Roy!!

Sunday's series finale is Photo Day.  Here's a look back at the 2009 event.

It was Ripley's "believe it or not" night for the affiliates Friday.  Consider:

Jarrett Hoffpauir hit for the cycle in Las Vegas's win over Tacoma.  It was his second cycle of the season.

Two Jays, Aaron Mathews in Vegas and Eric Thames for New Hampshire, hit inside the park home runs

New Hampshire were losing 6-1 in the eighth inning and won.

David Cooper, who has been struggling all season, hit a two run home run in the ninth to tie the game

Bubbie Buzachero, who had an ERA around 8 before last nights game, pitched five innings to get the win for the Fisher Cats

Chad Beck, whose pre-game ERA was over 6, made a spot start for Dunedin and pitched five shutout innings

Travis D'Arnaud hit a grand slam homerun.

Zach Stewart gave up five runs in the first two innings, then pitched three almost perfect innings

Oh man what a terrible headline. When you go 2-2 and there are few standout performances you have to take what you can get though.

The Orioles invade Toronto this weekend looking to narrow the 11.5-game gap between them and fourth place.