NATS (61-42) BETTER THAN GIANTS 10 DAYS AGO

 Maximum Scherzer 
 was just his normal top-shelf 
 self over 7 

 but of note is Nats turning 
 first triple play since "the Nats" 

Mariners 6, Blue Jays 5: Great Job, Bullpen

Jon Rauch, ladies and gentlemen.

Home runs by Thames, Lind, and Lawrie were not enough to overcome a middling start by rookie Henderson Alvarez and, after two solid innings of Jesse Litsch, the horror show that is the back end of this bullpen. Back-to-back home runs by Mike Carp and Caspar Wells off of Trevor Miller and Jon Rauch in the bottom of the eighth have vaulted the Blue Jays into a first-place tie for the most blown saves in the league, twenty. Blown saves. Twenty of them.


In other news, MLB.TV is really awesome. I watched a little of the free game of the day, and man, if they ever figure out the blackout situation, I am in. Don't tell MLB, but I would pay twice what they are currently asking to make that blackout free. The way you can flip around to highlights from other games, all picture-in-picture stylee? It is almost too much. On the topic of highlights for a moment, good for Jim Thome, who hit his 600th home run last night, which you can see here, and good for the Brewers infield, who turned a triple play that is awesome even by the standards of triple plays, which you can see here. When you see the super slow motion, you see that Matt Kemp definitely got his hand up and over that tag, but you can hardly fault the umpire for missing it in real time.


To recap the most important news of the day, though, this bullpen is killing me. 


KS

Two notable Joe West gifs, and oh yeah also a triple play if you are into those

First, Joe West ejects Barry Zito's mustache:

Next, we have Melky Cabrera high-fiving Joe West, who was really just signalling that time had been called, but Melky was like "even so, I can't leave him hanging":

Finally, I searched -- both high and low -- for an animated .gif of the Indians 3-4-6 triple play from Sunday's game, but, alas, all I have for you is video. Go here, click "video," and scroll down. If you are like, "fuck you, I know how to use the internet," then we have nothing more to say to each other.


Anyway, that must have been really nice for all eight Indians fans that have been showing up so far.


KS