The team from north of the border plays north of the Mexican border versus the Padres tonight in game No. 2 of three game set. Let’s hope this one doesn’t end in a Jesus Guzman walkoff in the bottom of the 36th.
No Melky tonight, so Anthony Gose gets some reps versus a left-hander. Might as well just go ahead and speed bag my own balls.
The Jays find themselves in North Tijuana tonight, taking on the Padres, who, apparently, exist.
You want me to do what to that incredibly shitty band Headley? Chase them? WHY???
Scuttlebutt
Holy shit, E5 alert!
“Johnson remains on schedule to start Tuesday in SF. Morrow is still very much up in the air for Sunday in San Diego,” tweets Gregor Chisholm. Ugh.
For your between-inning listening pleasure, be sure to check out today’s edition of the Getting Blanked Podcast. Feel free to skip ahead to the parting shots, if you feel like it.
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 theScore app…
Toronto Blue Jays
LF Melky Cabrera (S)
RF Jose Bautista (R)
3B Edwin Encarnacion (R)
1B Adam Lind (L)
C J.P. Arencibia (R)
CF Colby Rasmus (L)
2B Emilio Bonifacio (S)
SS Munenori Kawasaki (L)
RHP Chad Jenkins (R)
San Diego Padres
SS Everth Cabrera (S)
RF Chris Denorfia (R)
3B Chase Headley (S)
LF Carlos Quentin (R)
1B Yonder Alonso (L)
C Yasmani Grandal (S)
2B Jed Gyorko (R)
CF Will Venable (L)
RHP Jason Marquis (L)
The Jays can ensure themselves a .500 record in May tonight, which may sound thoroughly dis-fucking-piriting, but is actually no small feat, given that they began the season’s second month with four straight losses. Shit, maybe it’s even a nice little way to think of the season itself: playing .333 ball a fifth of the way through, then valiantly pushing their way back to .500, or even a little bit higher, by the end.
Ugh.
And, let’s not forget, they still might not even do it. Two more games in May, and they have to win either the struggling R.A. Dickey’s start tonight against the the very tough lefty Mike Minor, or tomorrow’s Marquis match-up (see what I did there?) in San Diego with Chad Jenkins on the hill against Jason Marquee.
There were no roster moves for the Jays today, though it was anticipated there would be, meaning that the relievers called up for last night’s start– who did a damn fine job, it should be noted– are still hanging around. Some out there in the Twittersphere have wondered whether the holdup is because of Juan Francisco, the left-hitting third baseman with a career .795 OPS against right-handers who was just D’d FA by the Barves. Wouldn’t be the worst move for the Jays to claim him, drop a reliever, and then have he and Mark DeRosa share third base until Brett Lawrie is healthy.
De-fault! De-fault! De-fault! The two sweetest words in the English language!
The Rasmus Cup appears to have come to an early conclusion, as Colby’s brother Corey was demoted this morning to the Braves’ Triple-A affiliate in Gwinnett County, Georgia. And just in time, too, with the cup series even at one game apiece, and Esmil Rogers making his first big league start since he took the hill 13 times for the 2011 Rockies… which… didn’t go particularly well.
Dickey tomorrow, at least! Which… should be a hell of a lot more confidence-inspiring, shouldn’t it?
Afternoon baseball on a Tuesday!
All hands on deck! The Battle for Tony’s Love is on as the Jays and Braves get set to provide much more than just the regular old interleague fodder. It’s Colby vs. Corey! And the winner gets his fathers love for the next twelve months.
Who will it be? The Jays’ outfielder or the just-called-up Braves reliever? We’ve got four games in a home-and-home format in which to find out… beginning tonight!
Yee haw!
I got nothing today. Here’s to hoping the Blue Jays can escape the top half of the first inning without spotting these overachieving shitlords a 3-run lead. Chad Jenkins will make his second start of the season, while Miguel Gonzalez takes the mound for B-More.
Give us a series split here so we can prepare for the Atlanta Braves with some semblance of optimism. Go Jays.
