Blue Jays 5, Rangers 4: Brett Cecil's Velocity has Returned in a Manner that is Pleasing to Me

Above: not Brett Cecil, but in fact Pam Greir. Who is awesome.

After the unspeakable bullpen debacle of Saturday night, it was a relief (that's right I went there a relief) to see that Brett Cecil did not any help at all to put the Rangers away Sunday. It was no less relieving to see Cecil, who has spent time in the minors this season trying to find his velocity, touch 94 MPH on the gun in the ninth inning as he put everything he had into those final pitches in his complete game four-hit shutout. It was actually . . . it was actually awesome. And he couldn't have gotten away with much less, as the Blue Jays only managed three runs off the tough Alexi Ogondo, all of them coming in the sixth: Bautista doubled in Escobar's single; E5 and Travis Snider followed with doubles of their own. 


And so here we are, all even at 51-51. That's .500 with exactly sixty games to go. The O's come to town starting tomorrow night, and they're legitimately awful, and I'm legitimately into that.


KS