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The earlier judo start times for the summer months (the university summer months [half of which are spring]) should have kept me tucked safely away from the worst of this one, but the earlier-than-you'd-figure first pitch meant that this one still found me. The call kept coming from the other room as I did the dishes: "Two-nothing Boston. No, three. No wait: it's four-nothing Boston. Five now." It didn't really get much better than that. Throughout this total drag of a five-game losing streak, the bats have done their part (for the good, I mean!), but the starting pitching, which had just wrapped up possibly the best ten games or so that Blue Jays starters, as a group, had ever managed (like going all the way back! to 1977!), has been dreadful, and the all-of-a-sudden-overtaxed bullpen hasn't been great. The net result is that we have been knocked down to fourth place in the AL East, spared the indignity of the basement only by dint of the injury-plagued Yankees (that's a kind of dint). I am not panicking, or even actually worried: this recent horrible stretch still has us on pace for ninety-one wins over the long season, and the Blue Jays are neither as good as they looked when they won six in a row, nor are they as bad as they have looked losing five similarly (in a row). My concerns are not long term, or even medium term, but rather immediate term, in that I would like the Blue Jays to win several of the games immediately before them (which happen to be in Pittsburgh this weekend—beautiful ballpark! surprising team!) for no other reason than it marginally improves my already really very good days when the Blue Jays win their baseball game upon them, these already very good days. Let's make them even better, guys!
KS
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