Blue Jays 7, Rangers 3: Blue Jays Spit In the Faces of All Who Would Oppose Them on Roberto Alomar Hall of Fame Day

A Good Day

Say what you will about the historically low esteem in which the public holds the once venerated Royal Canadian Mounted Police after recent years of scandal ranging from the petty to the rather severe, but being led through the crowd by a couple of Mounties is an absolute motherfucker of a way to make your way onto the field to have your number retired in front of 45,629 people packed into the building I can only call the SkyDome. I mean:

That just straight up works, you know? I have already more than said my piece on Roberto Alomar in recent days, so that is not ground that I will revisit with you here today. Instead, let it be said that Brandon Morrow pitched a heck of a game, striking out eleven over seven innings of two-run, six-hit ball. Early on, Alan Ashby noticed that Morrow had "the good slider" going, and predicted a long day for Texas bats, and he was totally right. There was no shortage of offense on the Toronto side, the highlight coming early, as the streaky E5 -- notably the last player to wear Alomar's number twelve, now the first number retired in Toronto Blue Jays history -- launched a shot into the second deck with Bautista aboard (on a walk, naturally). 


A really, really nice day of Blue Jays baseball, is all I really have to say about this one. It gave me a real good feeling, the kind of feeling you get when you look at a picture of Otto Velez talking to Roberto Alomar and Sandy Alomar Jr. in Anaheim in 1977, you know?

KS