The return Great White Hope! No, not Adam Lind to the damn clean-up spot (or JP Arencibia hitting fifth??!?), it’s Travis Snider’s triumphant-ish return after a long exile in the desert! And John Farrell is calling him his everyday left fielder, according to tonight’s radio broadcast!
Fuck yes. I mean, as intriguing as the tools of Anthony Gose are, I don’t want to live in a world where he stays up and Travis Snider goes down when Jose Bautista– who I’m pretty sure I saw somewhere (probably Twitter) is recovering very well, though my mind is too fried at the moment to remember where– comes off the DL.
Now just stay healthy, baby! And… y’know… don’t suck like you always kinda do.
Scuttlebutt
No scuttlebutt tonight, except to note that JA Happ and Brandon Lyon will not be with the club tonight, as they’re scheduled to join up with their new teammates tomorrow.
TV: Sportsnet
And now the lineups, by way of the live box score at theScore.com. And for those of you who’ll be out and about, be sure to follow all the action on your phone with Score Mobile…
Toronto Blue Jays
A. Gose RF
C. Rasmus CF
E. Encarnacion 1B
A. Lind DH
J. Arencibia C
K. Johnson 2B
Y. Escobar SS
T. Snider LF
Y. Gomes 3B
A. Laffey LHP
Boston Red Sox
J. Ellsbury CF
C. Crawford LF
D. Pedroia 2B
A. Gonzalez 1B
C. Ross RF
W. Middlebrooks 3B
K. Shoppach C
M. Aviles SS
P. Ciriaco DH
J. Beckett RHP
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Wow hazel mae’s arms are as big as zauns!
easier to pick you up and toss you across the room
ok captain obvious says she’s preggers…anyone know for sure?
Eating pickels is serious bizzness
Loving the Snider – Rasmus – Gose outfield line up!
Obviously prefer Bautista in right but I like how it looks for now.
Snider, Happ, Lyon… Laffey has been semi-effective, and Beckett hasn’t been Beckett this season… lots to be excited about tonight.
L_U_N_C_H_B_O_X_!_!_!_!_!_!_!_!_!_!
On the other hand, Lind is batting cleanup, and Gose is leading off.
You’re 1 for 2 sir.
A lineup with 4 guys who were in AAA two weeks ago, what fun!
Snider!!!!!!!!!!
colby!
That’s my boy.
Thought that had the distance.
Oh good, the NESN guys are already talking about “no more lineup protection” for Eddie.
haha. looked like he was going to punch him out.
And he should’ve! He did not touch that plate. But I will most decidedly take it.
A rare favourable Fenway call.
And there’s the makeup phantom strike.
good sell Colby
How do I spell “hard on?” C-L-E-A-T-U-S.
It’s nice that the Jays get away with a bad call for them instead of against them.
Seeing Beckett fail makes me happy.
can someone teach colby how to slide? he slides leg first but touches the plate with his hand? could have been safe by 3 feet if he dove head first
Don’t slide head first into a catcher blocking the plate. His head would have hit the catchers knee.
He’s also have a broken neck.
If anything he should have run teh catcher, other than that he did the best way
The wheels is off!
BABIPing Beckett to death right now.
Well this is a pleasant surprise.
Johnson up to bat. The rally ends hither.
Did you post this before or after he grounded into a double play? You might be clairvoyant.
It doesn’t take clairvoyance to expect a GIDP from Kelly.
Let’s ban this guy so that he never hits into a DP again.
Literally just before the pitch is when I pushed enter lol. My crystal ball is common sense.
I wonder what Damaso Garcia is doing now?
I think he succumed to cancer. A few years ago Alfredo said he was doing poorly, not sure he is still around, unfortunately.
Ah, bummer. Thanks for the info – I hadn’t heard about that.
malignant brain tumor 1991,terminal, told 6 months to live, managed to beat the odds, had a stroke a few yrs ago, limited mobility, but sounds like he is still alive.
It sounds as though Damo died 20 years ago, but there is no official word anywhere.
@ Little Looper,
Last year Alfredo said in an interview that Damaso was not doing well, but it seems as though he is still with us.
Am I greedy to want one more run there?
Nah. We’re playing Boston, and Laffey is our starting pitcher. We NEED more runs.
Get back on the hot dog.
Maybe, I’d at least like another man to third. But at the end of the day I’ll take a 2 run first.
Did i just see a pitch counter?!?! on SPORTSNET!?!?
Sportsnet are pretty advanced as far as putting newer stats in their graphics.
pitch counter is not newer
Too excited to watch Snider bat, you guys
Nice line drive Yunel!
Yessssscobar.
Solid at bat, Snider.
well that was anticlimactic.
Oh, the first Snider at bat! Jizzing myself
Was that a fizzle jizzle?
i think it was
i am tired of being played with already
Nice atbat for Gose.
Come on Rasmus, this is your time.
YYYEESS!
Thank god. Looked like another gooseegg for gose
Proud of Gose there. Able to lay off a couple closeish pitches before Beckett lost the strike zone.
The redeeming thing about Gose’s k rate is that he does walk a lot for a speedster.
Cletus delivers the goods!!!
Colby!
Beautiful
Shouldn’t a walked Gose…
Snider, Gose, Gomes… I feel like I’m watching a Las Vegas game
My boy Cletus!
i am getting horny with buck and pats gose spermathon
The speed is nice. Yes it is nice.
Speed kills!
Thanks for the erection, Rasmus.
+2
Tabby lays down the first Gose/Willy Wilson reference.
I think that the routine Buck/Tabby bashing is geting tired. Turn the sound off if you don’t want to hear them.
You of course could close your eyes and see no evil.
You sure you don’t work for Rogers?
turn off the sound and flip on Alan and Jerry, and since they’re on the road you want have to hear Wilner.
Its great when the audio is 3 seconds ahead of the vedio. You feel like you can predict the future.
shit,never thought of that, if the video was ahead of the audio it would be a little easier.
Doc, Doc, Doc, Doc, Doc, Doc, Doc, Doc, Gose
aaron who
Oh, that was a fine little play by Kelly.
It’s been a while since anyone pumped his tires.
Been watchin the British Open there Mr. Faldo?
Sir Nick is tha shit!
sex
Uno, dos, tres.
Es muy Bueno!
As for JP hitting fifth, he has a .965 OPS in July. And it’s not like Johnson or Escobar are hitting well.
All these runs are the ripple effect of having Snider in the lineup
Everyone feeds off of the youngster’s energy.
Snider will no doubt nullify the Fenway factor of no lead being safe
got to admit I didn’t think I’d see Snider and Gose both in the lineup this season. With Cletus in center, this has to be one of their better defensive outfield lineups, think Thames
Yes to the knuckleheads that were stating that its a bad thing to have too much range, I offer a THHHAAAAAAAKK
Excited molecules.
Josh Becket’s fastball now tops out at 92. wtf happened to this guy.
No more fried chicken and beer.
Why’d you say that? Now I want fried chicken and beer
I always want fried chicken and beer!
Hooooooooly cow, this ump sucks.
That’s a nice throw back to 2nd from Gose.
Hopefully his first game jitters are a thing of the past. Two nice plays to end the inning.
Nice catch by Gose there. Pedroia looks confused.
Beckett’s fastball is 89-90.
What the fuck, ump? Way off the plate.
Bill Miller working the plate tonight??
I dont mind the ump giving a little off the plate as long as he does it for both teams. In this game, it seems like he is giving a wider strike zone for rookie/younger hitters..and calling a tighter strike zone for veteran hitters. that is just fucking stupid.
It’s a Joe West crew. Anyone surprised?
Fuck Country Joe AND his crew.
No school like the old school…
Liking the outfield D tonight.
Easy-Peasy, Lunchbox.
I imagined what would have happened if Thames was in his place. Wasn’t pretty.
the ball would still be bouncing around the left field corner….the play would finally end with thames picking the ball up with a shovel and flashing that oh so common confused look on his face.
At the very least, he would have misread the play, dove to catch the ball as a last resort (missing it, of course), then lay motionless on the grass while his backup outfielder attempts to clean up the mess.
I doubt I’ll ever forget the visual of the entire Jays bullpen sitting both stone-faced and motionless, just unexcited observers to Thames’s shame, as he lay writhing and seemingly injured. I doubt he’ll ever forget it either.
I am very happy to see Lunchbox patrolling LF. I wonder what his defensive runs saved would be compared to Davis or Thames vs projected offense.
I think Davis is best as a 4th OF & pinch runner in late innings.
I hope Travis gets to stay til October. No point in sending him back down since the option is burned whether they use it or not.
The option was burned the moment they sent him to the minors this year…
Yay for good outfield defence!
Aaron Laffey! Staff ace!
It may be smoke & mirrors, but he has been quite effective.
I’m not mad about it. Feels good having a 16 year old shut down the red sux
I was outraged when the Jays signed Lafey because he reminded me of Jo Jo Reyes or Dana Eveland.
However, he has pitched pretty well this year , so I admit I was wrong.
Looking at his velocity, I am surprised he gets anyone out.
I wish Ricky could pitch as well as Aaron Laffey. Then we’d be really cookin’.
pitching and defence wins championships- every analyst in October.
Could Buck and Pat please stop mentioning Aaron Laffey’s diaphragm? (I know he tops out at 87 but that doesn’t mean he has a vagina.)
ayo!
+1
i think hazel could beat zaun in arm wrestle
Laffey is getting smoked….just so happens they are hitting it at people OR the outfielders are actually getting to balls that they usually butcher. (because there are new outfielders)
There have been several good plays in the field, but nothing that a decent outfielder shouldn’t have caught. I fail to see why that translates into Laffey getting smoked.
because they are hitting the ball hard …very hard.
Well…..there’s that. But he is out of the 5th, and still ticking. So there’s that as well.
Dirk Hayhurst and Jeff Blair were saying just the other day how Travis is ‘slow’ and ‘has no defensive value’. How do those fucks keep a job?
if thier opinions were fact, then they’d be fucked.
I can’t remember the last time Blair said anything that made any sense.
Snider’s speed has always been underrated. He is not a burner…but he is above average speed.
Blair is a decent baseball analyst. I was listening to him today & he made a good point that the Jays have so many prospects coming up, Snider has to perform immediately to stay on the team.
Blair is willing to criticize Rogers for not signing Darvish or Fielder.
However when he whines”It’s not my money… It’s Rogers Money” grates on me.
Surely, he realizes that the fans provide the revenue to support the team.
Blair said today he didn’t vote Gary Carter for the hall of fame out of spite.
I thought journalists were supposed to be unbiased?
He said that Carter once told people he was misquoted by Blair. Blair was insulted (because nobody ever zones out and misses a quote) and feels like Carter indirectly questioned his professionalism.
So out of spite, he wouldn’t vote for Carter.
That’s outrageous. I was a big Gary Carter fan growing up. Blair is foolish for using his vote for personal reasons.
What???? Snider isn’t slow. Snider is one of the Jays best base runners.
I like Hayhurst but he is trying too hard to be a Jays expert but he was only on the team for 1 year.
He is white and a little chubby. People just assume he is slow.
However, the smart commenters like to say he has “deceptive” speed, thinking they need to add the word “deceptive” because he is fat and white.
But he is simply just…fast.
Nice.
Blair used to bash Snider as a chubby white player a few years ago. He called him Pasty.
I found that annoying. I doubt he would make a similar comment about a Latino or Black player.
No one looks more pasty than Blair. He probably thought that made it kosher.
He used to be a running back…
Youk!!
The lovely Lindy.
cock teasing. trade him.
But what if it isn’t?
Who cares? I’ve had enough of him. Trade him.
Then trade for Upton and move Bautista to 1B and EE to DH full-time.
Or sign Ortiz in the off-season.
The ‘sign Ortiz’ shit needs to end, he’s never leaving Boston.
Yeah, not gonna happen. The Sox are probably not gonna let him sign somewhere else and definitively not going to let him sign somewhere in the division where they’ll face hima dozen or so tipmes a year.
Just imagine the Jays were crazy enough to offer $20 million/ year. You think the Red Six won’t offer $20 million and one dollar? And you think if he had the sampe offer from Boston he would leave? Come on. Its a catch 22…..to get him, we’d have to offer millions more then Boston….and Boston would always match whatever we offered so it’s a moot point.
Plus, the Guy will be 37, and he won’t sign a one year deal. No thanks
Lind has improved since he returned from Vegas. I wonder if he plays well enough to stay on the team in 2013.
I wonder if the Jays would dare move Bautista to 1B in 2013, & let Gose, Rasmus & Snider play in the OF.
Edwin would DH .
Lind could be a bench bat.
He will be here in 2013.
The only real alternative is like… David Ortiz.
Laffey. where did this come from? Field a good defense team and shit-ballers look good
spent the last 30 seconds having sex.. What did I miss?!
Hopefully the rug.
hilarious
“A man you want to bring home to your daughter”
Was that in reference to Thome?
Yes sir. Just showed a fan wearing a Jays hat, and a Boston jersey; Worst type of fan.
Laffey Taffey!
Travis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
for a walk?
Yes, for a walk. baby steps
You sir are enamoured.
ROGERS ARE CHEAP ASS OWNERS!!!!!!!!
Making the team bus from NY to Boston. When are those cheap ass mother fuckers ever gonna spend some money on this team!?!?!?!?!
is that johna keri?
Has Colby fielded a ball yet this game?
only his own.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NXBgSCSrIk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdDJ1_ZUyLs
Gose has a ghost bat
Gose Goes Ghost.
Anyone remember when we said if Laffey ever got called up that would be a sign something went horribly wrong this season?
Well, it has been a sign that things have gone horribly wrong this season. He’s been good and all, but not a result of good circumstances.
Uh Oh! You spoke too soon.
WE NEED MORE RUNS!!!!
THIS IS FENWAY!!!
It’s nice to watch Laffey pitch this good game and see his ERA drop below three, but we just know that all the saber-metric guys are gonna be there to remind not to get excited and that this game was a fluke and Laffey is average at best.
Fuck off Parkes!!
None of that takes away from his accomplishment tonight (as long as Farrell gets him out pronto.)
Laffey is on the verge of a quality start.
I don’t remember the last time one of our starters pitched a quality start.
Cecils last start.
Ah, John?????
Also, Laffey has faced the Sox twice now. In both games (so far), he’s given up zero runs, the only starts he’s done so.
big papi has lost weight!
Nice job getting out of that inning.
Laffey may be a shitballer, but he’s our shitballer, and deserves some love tonight.
Indeed, giving credit where it is due. Laffey is the man….tonight anyway. haha
Pretty nice outing.
hazel turned me on a little when she sad”bush”.
Is there a rule of thermodynamics that states Johnson and Escobar have to bat back to back in a lineup?
Opposites attract?
Ying & Yang?
I fucking hate it too. They should be relegated to 8-9 in keeping with their current production.
Oliver’s fuckin money, man. Fuckin money.
The question is–is Oliver next year’s Coco?
For another team…
Oliver is boss.
I was gonna complain about Farrell burning the good relievers in a five-run game, but then I remembered our bullpen’s getting reinforcements tomorrow, so it won’t be three pitchers deep anymore.
I want Scott Carson’s job.
There ya go Travis.
Nice, Lunchbox!! Welcome back.
Travis hit a double opposite field off the Monster in LF. Gomes drove him in . 6-0 Jays.
It is so exciting to see Snider back. !
Colby is the leader of the OF telling Snider & Gose what to do.
Come on Snider, we all tuned into this game to watch you get a hit. Now get us a hit.
Aye Carumba!!
Keep on hitting.
Well that sucked large.