Blue Jays (Cease) vs Twins (Prielipp): 5/2/26, 2:10pm

[dancingmachine]

Hopefully Banda pitches tomorrow at some point

[ComeTogether]

16-17

1 more w and back to 500.  

[Omar]

Well, well, well....

Despite some early misgivings the bats came alive in the 8th.  Oka continues to mash.  Valenzuela hit Banda into the shadow realm. The bullpen continues to get it done.  Bury them tomorrow. 

 

[Laika]

Valenzuela has to get almost every start until Kirky is back 

[Laika]

I guess we get irrationally excited about Okamoto now?

He's Troy Glaus 

[Spanky__99]

GG BIRDS... WIN THIS SERIES TOMORROW GO JAYS GO!!!

 

[G-Snarls]

Didn't get to watch 

Love the score 

Is Springer OK?!?!

[Spanky__99]

4 minutes ago, G-Snarls said:

Didn't get to watch 

Love the score 

Is Springer OK?!?!

No man, he was hit directly on the toe, find out later or tomorrow, wasn't good.

 

[Brownie19]

2 hours ago, Jays24 said:

The defense on this team has become a joke man.  Practically all these errors are on nibblers.

1st in baseball. 

[Brownie19]

38 minutes ago, Laika said:

Valenzuela has to get almost every start until Kirky is back 

He seems to be settling in nicely.  Love to see it.

[Brownie19]

Now that's a nice W for the Jays. Let's keep it going.

[Spanky__99]

Lots of Jays fans in Minny, love to see it.

[max silver]

32 minutes ago, Brownie19 said:

He seems to be settling in nicely.  Love to see it.

He's been chipping in with a lot of big hits in recent games. I like the power potential in his bat a lot if he can find a way to put the ball in play with more frequency. I also have to give acknowledgement to Myles Straw who may be on his way to showing that his solid 2025 season (by his standards) wasn't necessarily a fluke.

[DonJays]

2 hours ago, neverbeenhere said:

Cease is just not good

f***ing moron 

[max silver]

33 minutes ago, Spanky__99 said:

No man, he was hit directly on the toe, find out later or tomorrow, wasn't good.

 

It sounds like he's fine as X-Rays didn't show any new damage. I can't even begin to imagine how much it had to hurt getting hit exactly on the broken toe even though he had a guard in place.

[Spanky__99]

4 minutes ago, DonJays said:

f***ing moron 

Right, dude goes 7 strong giving up 3 ER and 7K's... sucks, Cease just not good lol... F*ckin' 🤡's 

[DonJays]

3 minutes ago, Spanky__99 said:

Right, dude goes 7 strong giving up 3 ER and 7K's... sucks, Cease just not good lol... F*ckin' 🤡's 

These reactionary fans are just absolute clowns.  Depending on the outcome of a pitch or an at bat, a player can be trash or an MVP. Baseball is a hard game. You fail 70% of the time if you are a good player. How can a ball “fan” be that stupid lol 

[Stangstag]

1 hour ago, neverbeenhere said:

I think he was wearing, wasn't he?

Didn’t look like it

[Brownie19]

1 hour ago, Spanky__99 said:

Right, dude goes 7 strong giving up 3 ER and 7K's... sucks, Cease just not good lol... F*ckin' 🤡's 

Great to see him grinding it out today.  Twins got to him early, but he kept pitching and gave us 7 strong.

I have no idea if this is true, but it feels like in the past Cease was the type of guy who when you got to him early, he'd struggle to find it and would end up throwing 100 pitches in 4 2/3's or something.  Nice to see him stay aggressive, trust his stuff, find a groove and give us 7.

[Laika]

9 minutes ago, Brownie19 said:

Great to see him grinding it out today.  Twins got to him early, but he kept pitching and gave us 7 strong.

I have no idea if this is true, but it feels like in the past Cease was the type of guy who when you got to him early, he'd struggle to find it and would end up throwing 100 pitches in 4 2/3's or something.  Nice to see him stay aggressive, trust his stuff, find a groove and give us 7.

I think classic Cease is definitely an inefficient 5 innings 

Or 5 clean and then gets destroyed in the sixth 

[Spanky__99]

Cease ranked 6th in baseball... suxxxxxxxxx

Defense ranked 1st in MLB... suxxxxxxxx

Vlad 149 wRC+... suxxxxxxxxxxxx

🖕 

[Jonn]

I don't think anybody can/should complain with what we got from Cease so far.

[Jays24]

2 hours ago, Brownie19 said:

1st in baseball. 

Curious what youre using to determine that.  I see us near the bottom in Defensive Runs Saved, Fielding percentage, errors, throwing out base stealers but 2nd in defensive WAR.  

[Jays24]

3 hours ago, Rynodb1 said:

7 IP, 3 ER, that's not that much "suck." Lol. 

I used suck in quotes because I was just playing on the words.  Although, Cease had allowed 4 runs (3 earned) over 6 innings at the time.  For his standards, that wasnt good enough against a horrible Twins squad.  Dont need to explain Vladdy lol.