8/13 Blue Jays @ Royals - Debut of Ten Straight Balls and Jansen 8:15 PM ET

[Omar]

Grandy!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gruber92]

Pillar's RBI single, and he just did it again, Urena tossed out at the plate on a basehit?

 

Are you watching the game? Teo's lead off double was followed by Martin swinging at the first pitch and grounding out to third. Urena's lead off double was followed by Granderson popping out into foul territory along the third base line. Both approaches didn't resemble trying to hit the ball hard to the right side. Like i said, horrible execution from professional ball players.

[Spanky99]

Are you watching the game? Teo's lead off double was followed by Martin swinging at the first pitch and grounding out to third. Urena's lead off double was followed by Granderson popping out into foul territory along the third base line. Both approaches didn't resemble trying to hit the ball hard to the right side. Like i said, horrible execution from professional ball players.

 

lol... okay coach.

[gruber92]

lol... okay coach.

 

At least you find humour in it.

[Spanky99]

At least you find humour in it.

 

[P2F]

I see the GDT is absolutely lit tonight.

[P2F]

I see the GDT is absolutely lit tonight.

 

I believe this is a season-low, actually. Not a single, solitary person gives even one whole flying f*** about this game, evidently.

[Spanky99]

Ruh-Roh... O'Hearn just hit a missile off Giles.

[Orgfiller]

I believe this is a season-low, actually. Not a single, solitary person gives even one whole flying f*** about this game, evidently.

 

Giles trying to make the game interesting for those barely paying attention. Respect.

[gruber92]

Keep throwing that slider over and over kid.

 

Got away with another hanger.. Kid has mental problems.

[Orgfiller]

Ah yes, Alcides Escobar, known for his extra base pop. Thanks Pat.

[tercet]

I've never really watched Giles much in the past, but does he always hang so many sliders? Pretty much every outing so far with the jays like half of his sliders are hangers, ugh.

 

He got away with them last night, but now he got punished.

[havok24]

Oh look it's the ALCS MVP!

[Spanky99]

Ball Game!

[Jonn]

Giles gives up some bombs. His slider was just up tonight.

[Orgfiller]

Granderson gives the GOAT athlete interviews, such a well spoken guy.

[Grant77]

Giles has excellent control, but poor command or a poor grasp of pitching. Far too many pitches are down the middle. If he could start that slider in the zone and have it end up out of the zone and hit the corners a bit more with his fastball then we might start to see his ERA match his FIP. As things stand now, he's always going to give up a lot of hard contact.

[Krylian]

Giles has excellent control, but poor command or a poor grasp of pitching. Far too many pitches are down the middle. If he could start that slider in the zone and have it end up out of the zone and hit the corners a bit more with his fastball then we might start to see his ERA match his FIP. As things stand now, he's always going to give up a lot of hard contact.

 

But he's equal to Osuna.

[Orgfiller]

But he's equal to Osuna.

 

He is, but don't let those less than 7 innings of unsustainable HR/FB performance keep you from making garbage uninformed posts.

[Orgfiller]

Keep throwing that slider over and over kid.

 

Got away with another hanger.. Kid has mental problems.

 

He's literally a two-pitch pitcher, he's gonna throw the slider a lot as a result, the same pitch that's a swinging strike machine for him. If you expect him to mix it up with a vulcan change and a 12-6 curve I got news for you.

[Krylian]

He is, but don't let those less than 7 innings of unsustainable HR/FB performance keep you from making garbage uninformed posts.

 

How is it garbage. You just agreed with me that they're equal.

 

Besides....why do the rest of his 2018 innings get erased?

[Spanky99]

1. Randal Grichuk ® RF

2. Devon Travis ® 2B

3. Justin Smoak (S) DH

4. Kendrys Morales (S) 1B

5. Teoscar Hernandez ® LF

6. Kevin Pillar ® CF

7. Danny Jansen ® C

8. Aledmys Diaz ® 3B

9. Richard Urena (S) SS

 

Gaviglio on the bump...

 

1. Whit Merrifield ® CF

2. Alex Gordon (L) LF

3. Salvador Perez ® C

4. Lucas Duda (L) DH

5. Rosell Herrera (S) 2B

6. Jorge Bonifacio ® RF

7. Ryan O'Hearn (L) 1B

8. Hunter Dozier ® 3B

9. Adalberto Mondesi (S) SS

 

Sparkman on the bump...

 

Big game Jays can win a series...

[Spanky99]

 

Game On!

[Orgfiller]

It's still pouring at Kauffman.

[Orgfiller]

Danny Jansen is such a beaut, awesome two-strike approach.

[Spanky99]

Diaz almost lost his face... Wow was that close.

[baubau]

I thought Diaz was having a terrible season but he has 99 wRC+ and 1.1 fWAR overall. A lot better than I thought.

[Spanky99]

Diaz???

[Pendleton]

Not sure what Diaz is doing there, maybe his life is still flashing before his eyes after that AB

[5ToolPhenom]

Jeeze Diaz, don't even bother to slide?