Blue Jays 11, Angels 2: Baseball is Crazy, Man

Ricky Romero, unflapped.

Just crazy! Yesterday I was pretty sure I was about to sit down to a pitcher's duel between Jered Weaver, who is having the best season of any pitcher in the AL who isn't Justin Verlander, and Ricky Romero, who has been very good and of whom I am fond, so I was ready to go. Then it turned out that the Blue Jays decided to give a bunch of guys the day off against the Weaver and his wacky arm slot and release point, sending the following obviously awful lineup out there to get slaughtered:


Escobar
Thames
Encarnacion
Lind 
Arencibia
Teahan
Lawrie
Davis
McDonald


Gadzooks! On top of that, Romero missed with ten straight pitches -- nine of them fastballs -- in the first before escaping the inning with a helluvtimely double play. It did not look good. I seriously, seriously considered going outside. 


But, no problem, Romero settled in and allowed only one run on two hits over seven innings, and the Blue Jays bats just ripped Weaver to shreds, no big deal. Encarnacion hit one out in the first. Lind hit a grand slam in the fifth, an inning that went so amazingly that even Mark Teahan got in on it. Every Blue Jay in the lineup -- in that lineup -- had a hit yesterday. Against Jered Weaver.


Baseball, man.


KS