Blue Jays 5, Cardinals 0: Ricky Romero Pitched A Four-Hitter and Knocked In A Pair, No Big Deal

No big deal.

Ricky Romero's four-hitter could very well have been a three-hitter had Corey Patterson been even borderline competent in centre field, but no, sometimes he just kind of stops and then the ball falls between him and the fielder just to his right or left. This time it was Juan Rivera who Patterson managed to psyche out by totally misplaying a ball that was obviously his. Rivera pulled up, no doubt thinking well Corey Patterson is the centre fielder and all so we're good but that turned out to be a huge mistake. The dudes on the radio were apoplectic. I have not seen the play on video but I choose to believe Ashby and Howarth when they assured me it was unacceptable. And so I will not accept it. 


But Romero! Remember how after his last start, he kind of mentioned how, outside of Lind and Bautista, the offense had been terrible of late? Maybe that was cool to do; maybe it wasn't. But it was definitely cool that yesterday he drove in a pair on his own with a little hack swing that pushed the ball passed a drawn-in Lance Berkman at first. Berkman had thrown the ball away when he tried to come home with it on a similar Patterson dribbler earlier in the inning, so this was a day on which it kind of sucked to be Lance Berkman, I guess. But a great day to be Ricky Romero. Or me, enjoying the baseball game.  

Anyway, I was just about to complain about how today is an off-day and off-days are the worst, but in fact the Blue Jays and Tigers are making up a rain out today. Excelsior! 


KS