GDT(2/3): Toronto Blue Jays @ Texas Rangers - Buehrle vs. Ross Jr. - 8:05 PM ET

[fatcowxlive]

http://i.imgur.com/qMOHfjZ.png

 

Pitching Matchup:

 

http://i.imgur.com/yW4x6DD.png

SP - Mark Buehrle (53.0 IP, 17 BB, 5.26 K/9, 2.89 BB/9, .246 BAA, .387 BABIP, 3.23 FIP) [L]

http://i.imgur.com/5gUpfLD.png

 

http://i.imgur.com/E7OZVv3.png

SP - Robbie Ross Jr. (44.2 IP, 12 BB, 6.45 K/9, 2.42 BB/9, .298 BAA, .338 BABIP, 4.31 FIP) [L]

http://i.imgur.com/qiEZSDX.png

 

Lineups:

http://i.imgur.com/nKfXt0G.png

Make your picks for the first homer contest hosted by Dylan! (Click the image below!)

http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/t538/BlueJays20131/hr2_zps4bac6d4f.png

 

Jays Batting:

 

Team Batting:

http://i.imgur.com/0UfQZa0.png

 

Team Pitching:

http://i.imgur.com/bwKJ3aC.png

 

Rangers Batting:

 

Team Batting:

http://i.imgur.com/qoMCCe3.png

 

Team Pitching:

http://i.imgur.com/0DexRNs.png

 

Notes:

 

MLB:

• No Important Notes Today.
  

 

Jays:

• Buehrle has yielded four earned runs and 16 hits in 19.2 innings to win all three May starts. The left-hander allowed a season-high five walks but two runs in six innings of a 7-3 home win over the Los Angeles Angels on Monday. Buehrle, who's won all four road starts this year with a 0.92 ERA, is 6-2 with a 2.95 ERA in eight career starts at Texas. He gave up one total run in two outings against the Rangers in 2013, going seven innings and allowing four hits both times, highlighted by an 8-0 victory at Arlington on June 14.
  
• Adam Lind had two hits Friday and has batted .381 in his last six games. He's 9 for 17 in the last four on the road against the Rangers, who have dropped 13 of 18 and been shut out twice during a three-game skid.
  
• Winners of a season-high four straight road contests, the Blue Jays have outscored the Rangers 26-4 during a five-game winning streak in Arlington.
  

 

Rangers:

• Ross went 1-0 with a 1.00 ERA in his first three starts but has gone 0-4 with a 7.76 ERA in the last five. He's posted a 9.98 ERA while losing three consecutive outings. Ross has managed to pitch better in each of those three successive defeats. He gave up four runs over the first two innings Sunday but settled down and allowed one more in a 6.2-inning performance in a 5-2 home defeat to Boston.
  
• The Rangers are 7-8 when the opponents start a left-hander while the Blue Jays are 6-6.
  
• Adrian Beltre is one of the few Rangers producing, batting .389 (7/18) in the past four contests while ex-Jay Alex Rios is 2/14 in the same time frame.
  

 

Standings:

http://i.imgur.com/YJEpg3K.png

 

Venue:

http://i.imgur.com/8MJGgxk.png

http://www.andrewclem.com/Baseball/Diag/BallparkArlington.gif

 

I hope you guys enjoy the GDT! Please leave feedback and ideas/improvements for future GDTs!

[Dylan]

Going to miss this one, hope to see a jays win when i get home

[fatcowxlive]

Going to miss this one, hope to see a jays win when i get home

 

I hope so too lol

[over500]

-0.4 WAR from your backup catcher. Gotta love that.

[guylaroche5]

would rather have melky in left and just DH kratz/lind. pillar has been aids but w/e lets get it

[o2cui2i]

Tolleson, Pillar, Gose... oh my

[Deadpool]

Tolleson, Pillar, Gose... oh my

 

Which one is the bear? I'm... uhhh... asking for a friend...

[o2cui2i]

Tolleson, Pillar, Gose... oh my

 

more like a tin man, scarecrow and a scared lion. I guess that Makes Brett Lawrie Dorothy.

 

bonus points for getting the movie reference--- lol

[G-Snarls]

Fielder scratched

 

Out for several games with neck problems

[Orgfiller]

Tolleson, Pillar, Gose... oh my

 

more like a tin man, scarecrow and a scared lion. I guess that Makes Brett Lawrie Dorothy.

 

bonus points for getting the movie reference--- lol

 

I'm pretty sure everyone knows the Wizard of Oz lol.

[fatcowxlive]

I'm pretty sure everyone knows the Wizard of Oz lol.

 

Who doesn't? lol

[guylaroche5]

Fielder scratched

 

Out for several games with neck problems

 

JP DH breakout time?

[Angrioter]

GD thread!

http://www.beheadingboredom.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/south-park-i-thought-this-was-america-murica.jpg

[jays4life19]

We should be able to sweep this series.

 

So we're probably going to lose the next 2.

[Deadpool]

Where did the thread go

 

It was too beautiful to exist in this world... *sheds a single tear*

[Orgfiller]

It was too beautiful to exist in this world... *sheds a single tear*

 

So, to recap, gruber lashed out because that one girl (probably some random dude irl) posted something which he replied to and GD jokingly said something along the lines of "lol you trying to get in her pants dude?"

[eastcoastjaysfan]

Gose worth .5 WAR in only 4 games.

 

Better send him back down.

[Deadpool]

So, to recap, gruber lashed out because that one girl (probably some random dude irl) posted something which he replied to and GD jokingly said something along the lines of "lol you trying to get in her pants dude?"

 

There really must be more to it than that... That's about the gist of what I gathered, but that was one hell of an overreaction of that's all it was.

[Orgfiller]

http://www.bluejaysmessageboard.com/threads/2863-Chris-Getz-retires?p=280834&viewfull=1#post280834

 

Can be found here, keep reading thread for further reaction

 

I thought that was the thread, here's GD's insulting, rage-inducing reaction:

 

Is the pic in your avatar a pic of yourself?

LMAO

[fatcowxlive]

Did Jamie Campbell just call Redmond 'Reddogg'?

 

Dogg? Is that you?

 

I am convinced that Jamie Campbell read the old board. He said things that were basically board-only terms lol

[Angrioter]

Lucha de machos alpha; 46 years male vs 15 puberty guy

[Angrioter]

[reedjohnsonfan]

I think the words were "one of the worst".

 

This is cool to see. Wells is a pretty cool guy and a good speaker.

[TheHurl]

give Noah and TdA some time to take that honour away

[Orgfiller]

give Noah and TdA some time to take that honour away

 

This.

 

Clearly Vernon hasn't been keeping up with the Blue Jays the last two years.

[TheHurl]

This.

 

Clearly Vernon hasn't been keeping up with the Blue Jays the last two years.

 

Honestly will be tough for the Dickey deal to top this one.

[Orgfiller]

For the whole day I've had no idea who this Ross Jr. guy is, then I just saw that it' Robbie Ross, I didn't know he added the Jr to his name.

 

I'm retarded.

[jays4life19]

give Noah and TdA some time to take that honour away

 

The Marlins trade was worse.

[Daniel Labude]

The Marlins trade was worse.

 

Each by themselves is not bad....put together they are beyond terrible.

[Daniel Labude]

People forget how bad the Jeff Kent trade was. Yea we won a world series with Cone but he left and we won a world series without him in 93! Kent had an All-Star career and won the MVP award in 2000.

 

I would take that all day if it meant another World Series Title.