Blue Jays 3, Red Sox 1: A Crisp 3-1 Win on Getaway Day!

Ricky Romero: boss.

Ricky Romero was notably less a boss than usual in his Opening Day start in Cleveland, and he has actually never been that great against Boston, so it would have been reasonable to think that this might not be a day for him to shine, despite looking both so fresh and so clean in the basically perfect new Blue Jays alternate uniforms ("I love the depth of the blue," Alan Ashby said on the radio, and look at how right he is to have said that). But Ricky-Ro was just like, no big deal; here are 8 1/3 innings of three-hit ball; perhaps three will be walked, but five will be struck out. Bawse. Rajai Davis, who is fast as hell, tripled in Eric Thames in the third to even the score at one, came in on a Yunel Escobar sacrifice fly to put the Blue Jays in front, and Escobar brought Davis in with a single in the eighth to round out the scoring. Did I mention that Rajai stole second in that selfsame eighth? It would seem that I did not. Did I mention that he is fast as hell?  Oh OK I totally did; I can see where I already said that. Throw in a couple nice grabs from Brett Lawrie and Jose Bautista and a pleasantly uneventful appearance by Sergio Santos in relief, and what's not to like? 


Oh hey also: I would be remiss if I did not show you this, courtesy of the still undefeated Drunk Jays Fans, because it shows a young lady  trying to sexually humiliate a Boston Red Sox fan after Casey Janssen struck out Jared Saltalamacchia (spelled it right without even checking! it's just like how you say it!) on Tuesday night. In the .gif itself, you can't really see who her sexual ire is directed at, so you need this still for setup (the annotations here are not my own; again, all of this is from DJF; love them here):

And then you have this, in which the young man who seems to be accompanying this salty young lady offers an "all in good fun, bro, all in good fun" high five that is very much at odds with where the aforementioned salty young lady's head is at:

Pretty lurid!

Go Jays!


KS