Game 34 - Blue Jays 6 at Red Sox 7

The Red Sox were 16-16 going in to tonight's game and are fourth in the A.L. East, and defeated the Jays 7-6 in a game there is very little interesting to say about. The Jays drop to 19-15 with the loss, and are now only 1.5 games up on the Sox in third in the A.L. East.

Brandon Morrow stunk out Fenway and was removed (as a witch and burned in effigy ... by me anyway ... sorry got carried away there) in the second inning when he couldn't even manage to hit the water and drown after falling out of the sinking boat he was in, despite the full weight of all the six Red Sox batters he walked dragging him down. If he could have been tagged for two losses tonight he should have been. Morrow's record instead only drops to 2-3.




Morrow has walked 26 (MLB high) in 35 innings and established a new historical "high" for Jays pitchers when he walked 5 batters in one inning. How much more rope should this guy be given? He is wild, and not effectively so.

Lackey was lackluster, and the Jays and Sox 'pens both did little to get excited about, with the Jays having to dip far deeper (6.1 IP vs 3 IP for Boston) into their's tonight.

The Jays now lead the A.L. (and second in MLB) in the ignominious stat of bases loaded walks (with seven so far this season), and "lead" all of MLB with runs allowed via HBP or BB with nine!

The Jays continue the series tomorrow in Boston.

James Ireland
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