Tribe at Blue Jays

• Footwedge

  Well, Baltimore just tied the score in the 12th.
• Crimson streak

  

  Good news is both the tigers and sox lost
• vball10set

  Footwedge;1225591 wrote: He's an idiot, period. And for those that argue that Ubaldo "might have straightened it out' need to look at the boxscore and see what he'd done in the first 2 innings plus. Gawd awful. A 4-2 deficit is easily overcome. An 8-2 deficit isn't.
  
  As for Ubaldo himself...his ERA ballooned and once again is above the pathetic Ubaldo line for the season.

  Pathetic indeed.
  
  21/3 IP
  7 H
  8 R
  8 ER
  4 BB
  2 SO
  64 NP
  5.09 ERA
• HitsRus

  

  Well. I blame this loss on the incompetant manager. Instead of removing Ubaldo when it became 4-2, he lets the game get away at 8-2. Why? Especially since Toronto has one of the worst bullpens in baseball

  Acta drives me nuts too. As said earlier in the thread....if he's throwing 90-92 MPH, you know it's going to be a loooong day (or a short outing). He needs to be hitting 94 -95 with his fastball....and he needs to be throwing it. When he's in the lower range, the pitch runs too much, and he can't control it like he needs to.
  I had a hunch this was going to happen, as his last outing, when he was pretty effective, he started throwing a lot of breaking stuff towards the later innings and they made a big deal of it. He has got to put that stuff away and establish his fastball early.
  
  I thought they had this stuff straightened out...Apparently not.
  
  as for Acta...he and Radinsky need to get off their butts. They don't come out of the dugout until things are blown up. Same thing happenned in Perez's blown save before the All Star break.
• Footwedge

  The 220 hitter bats fifth and the 300 hitter bats sixth? It should be 2 nothing already. SMH.
• Footwedge

  Manny you don't play to win.
• Crimson streak

  

  Nice job by Santana on that bunt. Hell if there leaving it open take it all day
• Footwedge

  Crimson streak;1225989 wrote:Nice job by Santana on that bunt. Hell if there leaving it open take it all day

  I agree. First thing he's done right in over a month.
• hoops23

  

  About to drop 2/3 to start the 2nd half. Nice.
• BRF

  

  hoops23;1226004 wrote:About to drop 2/3 to start the 2nd half.

  I was just thinking the same thing. I don't have much confidence in a comeback.
• vball10set

  Damn, we just can't seem to score runs--pretty much been the theme over the last six weeks
• Crimson streak

  

  We suck
• Con_Alma

  Crimson streak;1226041 wrote:We suck

  Been saying that since April even with the good start. This is a .500 team at best give or take a few games.
• Glory Days

  

  hoops23;1226004 wrote:About to drop 2/3 to start the 2nd half. Nice.

  welcome to third place and 4 games back.
• IggyPride00

  

  Season high 4 games out of first as well as being in 3rd for the first time.
  
  This team desperately needs hitting help, now.
  
  They got shut out one game, had one run in another, and in the third were doing next to nothing offensively until scoring a bunch of meaningless runs only once they were down 10-2.
  
  We need a bat now, not 2 weeks from now on the 31st deadline when we have fallen another 2-3 games out of first and are then in the hunt for nothing (division or any wildcards).
  
  What does it take to get through to Antonetti?
• BRF

  

  IggyPride00;1226080 wrote:
  What does it take to get through to Antonetti?

  The Fist of Footwedge?
• like_that

  

  BRF;1226089 wrote:The Fist of Footwedge?

  lol'd
• BRF

  

  OK.....I have started the last 4 series threads with a record of 8-6.
  
  I said that I would pass the baton to another poster for the next series thread.
  
  If there are no takers, though, I will just keep going.
  
  Ain't no thang.
• Footwedge

  BRF;1226089 wrote:The Fist of Footwedge?

  Bwahahaha. But I broke it...on Kotchman's chin.
• Footwedge

  IggyPride00;1226080 wrote:Season high 4 games out of first as well as being in 3rd for the first time.
  
  This team desperately needs hitting help, now.
  
  They got shut out one game, had one run in another, and in the third were doing next to nothing offensively until scoring a bunch of meaningless runs only once they were down 10-2.
  
  We need a bat now, not 2 weeks from now on the 31st deadline when we have fallen another 2-3 games out of first and are then in the hunt for nothing (division or any wildcards).
  
  What does it take to get through to Antonetti?

  Justin Upton. Solves problems.
• Crimson streak

  

  Footwedge;1226104 wrote:Justin Upton. Solves problems.

  
  I'd like Soriano right now the dude is killing it since may and then go after dempster,Greinke, or hamels
• BRF

  

  We won't pick up anybody that can help.
• Crimson streak

  

  Austin kearns is available I'm sure
• dazedconfused

  

  IggyPride00;1226080 wrote:We need a bat now, not 2 weeks from now on the 31st deadline when we have fallen another 2-3 games out of first and are then in the hunt for nothing (division or any wildcards).
  
  What does it take to get through to Antonetti?

  we've needed a bat since the off-season. instead of rectifying the problem, antonetti and shapiro decided to have a 12 million dollar bonfire in the center of the diamond
• vball10set

  Derek Lowe 0-5 with a 7.97 era over his last six road starts...ouch!