The Penguins get Sam Girard from injury and are about as healthy as they’re going to get this season with the only unavailable player of note being Blake Lizotte. The Penguins score on the second shift of the game on a sensational effort by Egor Chinakhov. Chinakhov takes a pass that Evgeni Malkin chips ahead … Read more
Kris Letang can’t go in this game due to an upper-body injury so go ahead and just don’t look at this blueline group tonight. Pittsburgh gets the first power play, Ryan Shea is out there with all the big guns. He looks nervous and loses the puck over his stick twice for no reason. They … Read more
Padres 6 Blue Jays 7 (11 innings) What an exciting set of extra innings. Top of the 10th Brendon Little is pitching Xander Bogaerts on second. Little got two quick outs but gave up a single, and the Padres were ahead. Little got Machado to ground out to end the inning. Bottom of the 10th … Read more
Tiger 1 Blue Jays 2 The Jays didn’t do much on offense, scoring just a run in the eighth and the winning run in the ninth. In the eighth, Ernie Clement led off with a walk. Nathan Lukes bunted him to second. Alejandro Kirk, pinch-hitting, singled him home. Unfortunately, Michael Stefanic struck out, and Bo … Read more
Red Sox 10 Blue Jays 2 Not only are the Jays bad, but they are also boring to watch. It is hard to watch them. We are less than 30 games into the season, and I’m thinking longingly of the off-season. And I don’t know what they should do. They got rid of last year’s … Read more
Blue Jays 2 Red Sox 1 (11 innings) Another great start for our Jays. Kevin Gausman was terrific. He had an unearned run in the first. Jarren Duran singled to start the game (I thought Nathan Lukes should have caught it). Duran went to steal second, and Alejandro Kirk’s throw was wide and high of … Read more
Mets 2 Blue Jays 1 I don’t know. We just aren’t hitting. Just 4 hits on the day, with 5 walks. One extra base hit. Alejandro Kirk had two of the hits. Tyler Heineman and Myles Straw had the other two. Clement and Santander had two walks. But we were 0 for 8 with RISP. … Read more
Blue Jays 0 Mets 5 Kevin Gausman had a tough first inning, giving up a two-run home run to Pete Alonso and taking 31 pitches to get out of the inning. And that was lucky. Starling Marte hit a hard line drive right at Ernie Clement for a double play to get us out of … Read more
Orioles 1 Blue Jays 3 I love watching Chris Bassitt battle. Today, he gave up eight hits and two walks but just one earned run in his six innings. He also had seven strikeouts. He did a terrific job against a very good offense. The only run scored against him was on a passed ball … Read more
Orioles 9 Blue Jays 5 Signing a 40-year-old, injury-prone pitcher comes with some risks. And we found the risk today. Max Scherzer went three innings, giving up two solo home runs in the first, and then came out of the game. The Jays are saying right lat soreness. We don’t know if it is a … Read more