Saturday, May 19, 2012

Blue Jays 2, Mets 0: Brandon Morrow, Metsecutioner

lol so not a tag man so not a tag
So it turns out the Rays officially appealed a recent official scoring decision of official scorer Dave Perkins, an officially middling Toronto Star sportswriter who took a package a couple of years back, the one that called the ball ripped off a diving Adam Lind (before his demotion made him . . . Sadam Lind) an error and so made like five runs unearned. The Rays won their appeal, and the play was ultimately ruled a hit, which is fine, but it totally inflated Brandon Morrow's earned run average heading into today's game. And so, in response, Morrow threw a complete game, three-hit shutout. No big deal. The Blue Jays got a big assist from a totally blown call in the ninth: the Mets by all rights should have had runners on second and third, one out, in a two run game, but because the umpire was in no position to see the play at second as Mike Baxter slid in under Yunel Escobar's tag on a throw from Jose Bautista that beat him by a mile, but again, no tag, they totally did not. 

Also of note today: at one point Alan Ashby spilled a cup of water all over his scorecard and Jerry Howarth good naturedly rode him about it way longer than you would think and it was charming. 


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4 comments:

  1. MiguelitoMay 20, 2012 at 9:05 PM

    It amazes me how Alan Ashby played like 2 years in Toronto and got a broadcasting job with them. Good to see he's got work.

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  2. KSMay 21, 2012 at 11:49 AM

    yeah he was a godsent, actually. Tom Cheek and Jerry Howarth were awesome on the radio forever, and then after Cheek passed away the broadcast was adrift for a while there and it was the Jerry Howard + An Incompetent Show until Ashby was unceremoniously dumped by the Astros. The only problem is that Ashby has been if anything TOO good and there is talk that he will be moved onto the TV side, which would make that watchable (Buck Martinez as colour guy: no problem; Buck Martinez as play-by-play: swallows his own tongue constantly; also Pat Tabler could not be worse) but break up MY FAVOURITE TEAM OF GUYS ON THE RADIO PLEASE DON'T

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  3. Matt WeilandMay 21, 2012 at 6:04 PM

    In your headline are you giving the meta the two runs they should have gotten had the second base ump not been suddenly struck with blindness?

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  4. KSMay 22, 2012 at 12:48 PM

    WOOPS and also yes

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