Royals (Lugo) vs Blue Jays (Scherzer): 08/25/26, 7:07 PM

[Brock Beauchamp]

Scherzer takes the ball for the Blue Jays tonight at Rogers Centre as Toronto hosts Lugo and the Royals.

[Brock Beauchamp]

	THU	FRI	SAT	SUN	MON	TOT
Tyler Rogers	0	0	14	0	0	14
Spencer Miles	8	0	8	0	0	16
Spencer Arrighetti	0	61	0	0	0	61
Simeon Woods Richardson	0	20	0	21	0	41
Paul Sewald	0	11	0	0	0	11
Mason Fluharty	0	14	0	7	0	21
Louis Varland	21	0	21	0	0	42
Brendon Little	0	21	0	24	0	45
Braydon Fisher	0	16	0	13	0	29

[Stangstag]

Must-win game

[hanton]

Backs against the wall

[Laika]

Must win game and throwing a 45 year old lady with a 8.40 ERA against Bobby Witt Jr. 

[Omar]

Lugo is the type of guy who can mystify us with his pitch mix.  

Could be an embarrassing night for Vladdy. Hope i am wrong and we slap hit him to death.

[SeranthonySantander]

Bobby Witt is a red neck pos.  Probably had an illegal ferret farm.

[Terminator]

These Scherzer starts are the dangerous ones. Need him to show a pulse moving forward. Looked like he might have been until the last game when Jesus Sanchez had other plans. 

[G-Snarls]

1 hour ago, SeranthonySantander said:

Bobby Witt is a red neck pos.  Probably had an illegal ferret farm.

He definitely heard this a few times growing up in Colleyville, Texas

 

[Terminator]

• Scherzer vs. Lugo
• Bieber vs. Dobnak
• Spaghetti vs. Cameron

Don't love these pitching matchups but the Royals have both the worst road record and bullpen in baseball.

[G-Snarls]

6 minutes ago, Terminator said:

• Scherzer vs. Lugo
• Bieber vs. Dobnak
• Spaghetti vs. Cameron

Don't love these pitching matchups but the Royals have both the worst road record and bullpen in baseball.

I demand patience from our hitters

 

[harvey16]

Beiber likely done for the season, brutal!

[G-Snarls]

Oh f***

[Laika]

I am tempted to say "and so are the Blue Jays" but it's not like Bieber has provided much benefit this year, on balance 

[ComeTogether]

Royals are on a hot streak.

Gotta win today to start off the home stand on a positive note. 

[james jones]

Jays may need to have 2 bullpen day games until Taillon is back. Does this team have like 3 starters right now?

There should be something wrong with their training staffs.

[glory]

Bieber's last 4 starts against Houston, Philly, Tampa, and the Yankees, he was 3-0 with a 2.96 ERA (3.62 FIP) in 24 innings. Really only one bad start in that string (against PHI). Even if it was smoke and mirrors in terms of stuff (haven't looked that part up), he's been a big reason for the Jays at least making things interesting. This is a big loss, with no one ready to step in.

[Terminator]

Good grief. Bieber is made of glass.

Even when you think he's healthy he's not.

• Finished the season fine last year - nope jk he's out half the year with an injury.
• Threw 7 strong his last turn through the rotation - actually no he's going to the IL the day before his next start.

[ComeTogether]

6 minutes ago, Terminator said:

Good grief. Bieber is made of glass.

Even when you think he's healthy he's not.

• Finished the season fine last year - nope jk he's out half the year with an injury.
• Threw 7 strong his last turn through the rotation - actually no he's going to the IL the day before his next start.

Story of the season.  

[John_Havok]

Someone tell the fat lady, she should be warming up to serenade the Jays playoff hopes in a few days

[max silver]

16 minutes ago, Terminator said:

Good grief. Bieber is made of glass.

Even when you think he's healthy he's not.

• Finished the season fine last year - nope jk he's out half the year with an injury.
• Threw 7 strong his last turn through the rotation - actually no he's going to the IL the day before his next start.

Oh FFS the injury cursed season from hell continues.

[Terminator]

31 minutes ago, james jones said:

Jays may need to have 2 bullpen day games until Taillon is back. Does this team have like 3 starters right now?

There should be something wrong with their training staffs.

Yeah it's a damn mess now.

• Scherzer
• SWR?
• Spaghetti

That's either 3 bullpen days, or 3 s***** starters throwing, depending on how you look at it.

[Brownie19]

[Brownie19]

1 hour ago, Laika said:

I am tempted to say "and so are the Blue Jays" but it's not like Bieber has provided much benefit this year, on balance 

He'd been pitching a lot better as of late and if you squinted, you could see a rotation of Cease, Soriano, Bieber (and Yesavage?) giving us a chance to win a series if we made the playoffs.  It was all probably too good to be true though.  Often is.  

Start the scapegoat thread and let the irrational and ignorant whining and complaining begin!

[glory]

Bieber hurt, and Straw playing everyday in a lineup that already includes Bateman, Gimenez, and the $500M man hitting like 1992 Otis Nixon. 

Bah Gawd, that's the grim reaper's music. 

[John_Havok]

2 minutes ago, Brownie19 said:

He'd been pitching a lot better as of late and if you squinted, you could see a rotation of Cease, Soriano, Bieber (and Yesavage?) giving us a chance to win a series if we made the playoffs.  It was all probably too good to be true though.  Often is.  

Start the scapegoat thread and let the irrational and ignorant whining and complaining begin!

It's very rational to complain about the dumpster fire of Vlad Jr all season long. 

Probably rational to complain about Little getting too much rope. 

May be rational (a wee bit) to complain about Hoffman until he moved out of the closer role. 

 

[james jones]

It will be miracle if the Jays make the playoffs this season given these injuries. Too many injuries from their rotation.

[John_Havok]

1 hour ago, james jones said:

Jays may need to have 2 bullpen day games until Taillon is back. Does this team have like 3 starters right now?

There should be something wrong with their training staffs.

Yes. They literally forgot their jobs after the last 3 seasons of the staff being nearly perfectly healthy. 

 

[Brownie19]

17 minutes ago, John_Havok said:

It's very rational to complain about the dumpster fire of Vlad Jr all season long. 

Probably rational to complain about Little getting too much rope. 

May be rational (a wee bit) to complain about Hoffman until he moved out of the closer role. 

 

Little threw 3 2/3 innings when the season mattered.  They gave him a bracelet man - and he was godawful, after looking dominant in spring training...