When It Rains, It Pours (news)

Nothing's going right for the Toronto Blue Jays this season. Big free agent acquisition Frank Thomas hasn't adjusted to the Canadian climate and is hitting .238 with four homers and 15 RBI. Injuries have cost them starters Troy Glaus, Gregg Zaun and Reed Johnson for long stretches and will cost B.J. Ryan, their closer, all of this season and some of the next because of Tommy John surgery. And to top it all off their ace Roy Halladay got strafed by the Red Sox yesterday in a 8-0 loss, the ninth in a row for the reeling Jays. Looks like John Gibbons picked the wrong year to stop snorting heroin. The Sox, on the other hand, are so giddy from the sweep that not even their beat writers are making sense. I blame the liberal marijuana laws north of the border.

In about the third inning of the Yankee game yesterday I took a look at the out of town scoreboard and saw that the Marlins and Dodgers were already in the seventh inning of a 0-0 game. Sergio Mitre and Derek Lowe were each tossing gems, ensuring one would end up with a tough luck loss. It turned out to be Lowe. He gave up a three-run homer to Josh Willingham in the bottom of the ninth for all the scoring in a 3-0 Florida win that took less time than a screening of Spiderman 3. Mitre, for his efforts, got a no-decision, leaving after eight for a pinch-hitter.
Jose Contreras got hung with a loss in his last start thanks to three unearned runs. He took matters into his own hands in a 3-0 victory against the Twins by allowing just five hits and a walk and keeping things simple for his defense. None of those hits was by Torii Hunter, ending his hitting streak at 23 games and Ron Gardenhire snapped his string of seeing the ends of games by getting ejected in the fifth.
Ken Griffey tied Rafael Palmeiro for ninth place on the all-time home run list and the Reds held off the Astros for a 9-5 win. Cinci built a 7-0 lead through three innings before the late-starting Astros mounted a brief, ineffective comeback effort. Griffey's bomb, the 569th of his career, was one of three Reds homers and helped them stave off a four-game sweep.
Aaron Cook pitched okay but he bunted like a Hall of Famer to help the Rockies win in the first of four against San Francisco. His first bunt was botched by Giant pitcher Noah Lowry and ignited a three-run second inning rally and his second scored Yorvit Torrealba when Ryan Klesko opted for the safe out at first instead of trying for a play at the plate. He gave up all three runs in the 5-3 win and allowed six hits and walked four without recording a strikeout proving sometimes the bunt is truly mightier than the arm.

(theFeed.blogs.com)