Wednesday September 12

Another loss 4-1

This was over in first inning.

The good: not much

The bad: two out first inning, two walks and a double, down 2-0, game over.

McGowan 99 pitches five innings.... did no one tell him Yankees are a patient batting side ?

The ugly. five game losing streak at a time when it should be five game winning streak

This is not a question anymore of relative strengths of the two teams. Jays should have beaten up bigtime on Mussina just back into rotation.
The lack of run support has hurt this team all season long. The lack of a short game, no running game, no base to base attempts, no pressure on opposing teams, waiting for the big three run home run, these are the issues facing them in off-season. There is NO speed on this current team. When Glaus and/or Thomas is on how many double plays have resulted ? The pitching has been forced to go deep, they have been misused and overused by Manager to the extent that the arms are finished on most of them and yet even last game he brings out Downs and Accardo ??? where was Accardo in Detroit when Janssen gets into trouble ? If he had pitched that game and possibly saved it the Jays attitude would be more confident in Rigers against Yankees. He had to pitch him to keep arm sharp and yet wrong game to do it. He had obviously lost confidence in him to close. Now what happens today in final game IF Jays are winning in 9th.

Spring training in 2008 has major issues to work on... including some if not all of above.