Jays Clobber A's ACTUALLY!

In all honesty, I was pretty damn surprised that the Jays actually won that game, seeing as we went into extras and we put Jason Frasor on the mound to hold up the fort. Plus, we were on the road facing a good pitching staff. Anyway.

We won, 6-2 in 12 innings of complete fucking boredom, except for of course the two innings that we actually got soemthing done in, the 3rd and the 12th. Burnett did great, though, even though it wasn't one of those sexy sexy 13 strikeout Burnett performances we've seen, he got the job done. It was going great until Casey Janssen had one of those rare fuckups and undoned the job. That's right, undoned.

In the 8th after another fine start for A.J. where he only allowed a run over five hits, Casey came in to give up a leadoff double off the left-centre field wall to former-Blue Jay-- now Blue Jay killer, Shannon "Mongoose" Stewart. He was knocked in by Dan Johnson (a lefty) to tie up the ballgame before Gibbons decided to send in the lefty specialist Downs.

But it was all good because while the A's used closer Huston Street in the ninth and tenth to ware him out completely, the Jays used seldom-used Jason Frasor to hold the fort up for Jeremy Accardo in the eleventh (who got the win after The Big Bad Wolfe put up a spotless twelfth). Troy Glaus knocked in Vernon for the go-ahead run which kept the line moving for a four-run rally in the twelfth to secure the victory for T.O.

Tip of the Night: Don't drink Coke and eat Mentos... oh fuck, it's awful.

Surprise Surprise

Well it's finally happened, Gustavo "Baldy" Chacin (pictured) underwent exploratory surgery in his left testi-- shoulder today. As a solution, the Jays signed former A's pitcher Joe Kennedy pitcher to a minor-league contract, but he's a free-agent next year so it's kinda stupid.

Anyway, Chacin's season is definitely over and, in my oppinion, so is his career in Toronto. With a very solid bullpen and J.P. hinting that the Jays are going to look for free-agent pitching in the offseason, it looks as if Gustavo will not be a Jay for much longer. The starting rotation and the bullpen looks pretty damn awesome to this point, which means having Gustavo would just be a liability, really. I still don't see why fans like the Venezuelan right-hander so much, he has a high Towers-like ERA but more wins because we gets run-support. Maybe it's because of his promising rookie-year that fans have taken a shine to the shiny-headed injury-prone young'n.

Cool Guy of the Game

A.J. Burnett, for obvious reasons... he looked great over 7 innings, and while he only struck out three he also worked his way out of jams. The only blips on his radar would be Nick Swisher's 17th homerun of the season and the five walks he gave up; but he kept the Jays in the game the whole way through.

The Good

The pitching was excellent, straight up great-- except for Casey Janssen of course, but he's entitled to a fuck-up after all he's done this season.

The offence was still pretty good, only Matt Stairs and Gregg Zaun went 0-for, and Matt Stairs got 2 walks as the leadoff man.

Speaking of, J.P. said that he has every intention of resigning Matt Stairs, and Matty said that he has every intention of ending his career in Toronto, so it looks like he's staying, folks.

The Bad

Gregg Zaun went clean-shaven and immediately went hitless. Oh, so ironic, right? Wrong, you're stupid.

The Ugly

Marco Scutaro went 0-for-6 leaving 8 on, ha ha! It's ugly for him, but pretty damn prettiful for us.

Tonight's Matchup: Jesse Litsch pitches for Blue Jays versus former Blue Jay Chad Gaudin. May I remind you, though, that former-Jay pitchers have metaphorically raped us this month... Escobar, Loaiza, Clemens and Trachsel have gone 5-0 with a 1.78 ERA against the Jays in August. Don't drop the soap Jays...

However, Gaudin only pitched 13 innings for the Jays, with a 13.15 ERA on him, so I think we might matchup, ha ha.