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Game #124 GameThread: Jays @ Cubs

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Photo by Jay Drowns/Sporting News via Getty Images via Getty Images Let’s not get swept. We are facing a lefty again. No Varsho today. And no Jimenez (he’s day-to-day at the moment). We will hear how good Horwitz is against lefties (he’s hitting .171/.255/.195 against them (small sample size)). Buck figures if he keeps saying it, it will turn out to be true. How long … [Read more...] about Game #124 GameThread: Jays @ Cubs

Jays Lose To Cubs

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Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images Blue Jays 2 Cubs 3 That was a long, long dumb game. I had a hard time staying awake for it. The boxscore says the delays went for 55 minutes. Plus the 2:31 of game time, it made for a long watch. Two rain delays and a lot of bad baseball. Let’s do this random note style: It started badly; Ian Happ homered on Chri0s Bassitt’s first … [Read more...] about Jays Lose To Cubs

Game #123 GameThread: Jays @ Cubs

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Photo by John Cordes/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Game two with the Cubs. They should have won yesterday. I hope today is better. Daulton Varsho is hitting second again. Since moving to the second spot in the last eight games, he’s been hitting .267/.389/.500. Now, if Springer could build on yesterday’s triple, life would be good. Springer is hitting .135/.200/.270 … [Read more...] about Game #123 GameThread: Jays @ Cubs

Happy Birthday Dave Lemanczyk

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Photo by Jeff Goode/Toronto Star via Getty Images It is Dave Lemanczyk’s 74th birthday today. Dave was a starting pitcher for the Blue Jays in their first season. He started the second game in club history, taking the lK in our first loss. He was a pretty decent pitcher. We took Dave from the Detroit Tigers in the Expansion Draft. The Expansion Draft was a sucker’s bet; … [Read more...] about Happy Birthday Dave Lemanczyk