Blue Jays 5, Athletics 3, and the 2011 Toronto Blue Jays are probably the greatest collection of athletes ever assembled for anything (ever)

The price you pay for playing "ski" near a triple word score.

Jesse Litsch struck out seven over six-and-a-third, Snider blasted a three-run shot to put the Blue Jays out front for good, Scrabble pitched two strong in his new role, and Rauch sealed the deal. Aaron Hill even made an awesome play on a ball deflected off of Adam Lind's glove and got it over to Litsch just in time. This game owned, friends, it owned. If it wasn't for Escobar ending a three-for-three day by probably concussing himself sliding headfirst on a triple, I would be a man utterly without cares right now. As it stands, I must admit to some cares, but I am also thinking quite a lot about how the Blue Jays will now share top spot with the Baltimore Orioles atop the AL East should Neil's Tigers hold on tonight, and with the Rays and Red Sox continuing to lose at a nice clip, I don't think I'm being premature in speculating that the Blue Jays will hold at least a share of the AL East lead every day for the next six months. 


KS  


edited to add: OH YEAH, after E5 hit a grounder to Pennington at short in the home half of the fourth. It was recorded as an infield single, but really it could and perhaps should have been an inning-ending double play ball, and Jerry Howarth talked about how things like that won't show up in the box score, but those are the kind of plays that really inflate a pitcher's ERA through no fault of his own. Just as he was finishing his point, Snider ripped it over the wall in right. If I were Jerry Howarth, I'd have been feeling pretty smug right then, but because he is Jerry Howarth, he was filled with nothing but a good-natured love of the game of baseball.